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Live-Action 5 Centimeters Per Second Film Unveils New Trailer, More Cast, Featured Song, Teaser Visuals
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The official website for the live-action film of Makoto Shinkai's 5 Centimeters Per Second anime film unveiled on Monday a teaser trailer, teaser visuals, more cast members, and a new version of Masayoshi Yamazaki 's 1997 track "One more time, One more chance," which was featured in the original animated film. The video previews the "One more time, One more chance ~Live-Action 5 Centimeters Per Second Film Remastered Version~."
The newly announced cast includes (top row, left to right):
- Yuzu Aoki as high school-aged Takaki Toono
- Nana Mori as Kanae Sumida
- Mai Kiryu as Risa Mizuno
- Aoi Miyazaki as Midori Koshimizu
- Hidetaka Yoshioka as Ryūichi Ogawa
SixTONES member Hokuto Matsumura (Suzume's Sōta Munakata) stars in the live-action film.
Haruto Ueda and Noa Shiroyama play the main lead characters Takaki and Akari, respectively, when they were children.
Spoon is producing the film, and Toho will distribute. Yoshiyuki Okuyama is directing, and Ayako Suzuki is writing the script. Ayatake Ezaki will compose the music.
The anime focuses on Takaki Tono, telling the story through three stages of his life and describing his weakening connection and relationship to a girl he once loved. In the first part, set in his middle school years, he tries to make his way to one final meeting with Akari Shinohara, a girl who he befriended in elementary school. With Akari moving away, he realizes this will be his final meeting with her, and he braves the snow and the circumstances to see her. The second part is set during Tono's high school life, when Tono is still thinking about Akari, ignorant to the feelings of a girl named Kanae who has fallen in love with him. The third part is set during Tono's adulthood, where he struggles to hold down a job and a relationship as he continues to find things that remind him about Akari.
The 5 Centimeters Per Second anime opened in Japan in 2007. The film is split into three individual segments. Crunchyroll previously released the anime on DVD in 2011 with the help of Bandai Entertainment. Discotek later released a reissue of that version with new cover art. GKIDS later acquired the license in 2022 and released the film on Blu-ray Disc with Shout! Factory.
Shinkai directed, wrote, and storyboarded the anime film, and was also the sound director, producer, and art director. Tenmon composed the music.
Sources: 5 Centimeters Per Second film's website, Toho Movies' YouTube channel, Comic Natalie
