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Galileo Galilei Band's Film to Screen at London's Raindance Film Festival
posted on by Crystalyn Hodgkins
A film based on the rock band Galileo Galilei's first original song, "Control Tower (Kanseitou)," will get its European premiere at the London Raindance Film Festival on October 9. Galileo Galilei performed the opening theme songs for anohana and Ookiku Furikabutte ~Natsu no Taikai-hen~.
The Control Tower film premiered in the U.S. at the New York JAPAN CUTS film festival in July. The band's first album, Parade, which includes the theme song for the film, an acoustic version of "Control Tower (Kanseitou)," is available in the U.S., Canada, and the UK through iTunes and Amazon.
Takahiro Miki (Solanin), the director best known for music videos for Orange Range and YUI, directed the film, which stars Kento Yamazaki and Ai Hashimoto. The film centers around a 15-year-old boy and a female transfer student "who cannot find their place in life, but who gradually learn to relate to each other through the power of music."
The band also launched a series of anime shorts within the Monster Rock program on the Space Shower TV music channel in 2010. Yuuki Ozaki (center right in photo), the vocalist and guitarist of the band, contributed to the writing and art of the "Galileo Galilei no Inu-Kurai Ryū" animated shorts.
Galileo Galilei formed in Hokkaido in 2007, and the four-man band made its major label debut with SME Records in 2010. The band's first album with SME Records, Hamanasu no Hana, was released in Japan on February 24.
