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Live-Action Clover Film's Web Trailer Posted
posted on by Rachel Mahoney
Mainichi Shimbun Digital began streaming a web trailer for the live-action film adaptation of Toriko Chiya's Clover manga on Thursday. The film will open in Japanese theaters on November 1.
Narrator: An office lady with no sense of love, who cannot forget her first love, Saya Suzuki.
Saya: Love like a roller coaster?
Fortune Teller: Yes, the worst and best destined person for you.
Saya: The worst and best?
Text: Soon to begin-
Text: Destined love
Text: Soon to meet him
Saya: I understood that I would have to find out the four-leaf clover by myself. But, he is----
Text: Super masochistic
Saya: Susumu Tsuge, Asshole!
The film will star Emi Takei (Rurouni Kenshin's Kaoru) as Saya and KANJANI Eight band member Tadayoshi Ōkura (Papadol!, Otenki-oneesan, Dr. DMAT) as Susumu. Takeshi Furusawa (Another, Kyo, Koi wo Hajimemasu) is directing the film, and Taeko Asano (NANA) is writing the scripts.
Additional cast members include:
Natsuna Erena Mizusawa Kento Nagayama Haruka Kinami Yasuko Mitsūra Risa Naitō Kenji Murakami Taku Suzuki Rie Shibata Kai Shishido Masahiko Nishimura Yūsuke Kamiji
Idol group KANJANI Eight will perform the film's main theme song "CloveR," while female singer JUJU will perform the film's insert songs, "Someday My Prince Will Come" and "When You Wish Upon a Star."
The original manga series centers on a 21-year-old office lady (OL) named Saya Suzuki. Saya never forgets the boy she liked in middle school, so she isn't interested in romantic relationships. However, this lack of interest begins to dissolve when Saya's supervisor Susumu Tsuge suddenly confesses his love.
The manga debuted in Shueisha's Bouquet magazine in 1997. Shueisha's Chorus magazine (now renamed to Cocohana) began serializing the story in 2006, and the manga ran in that magazine until 2010. Shueisha published the 24th and final volume in the series in January 2011, and the manga has sold more than 9 million copies.
Chiya launched the sequel series Clover trèfle in Cocohana in June 2012, and Shueisha published the third compiled volume on March 25.
