News
Kenji Ozawa Performs Theme Song for Live-Action River's Edge Film
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
The official website for the live-action film adaptation of Kyoko Okazaki's River's Edge manga revealed on Friday that Kenji Ozawa will perform the film's theme song "Arpeggio (Kitto Mahō no Tunnel no Saki)" (Surely It's Beyond the Magic Tunnel).
Okazaki and Ozawa are close friends, and Ozawa readily accepted when he was asked to compose the theme song for the film. The song will be Ozawa's first theme song for a film. Ozawa revealed the lyrics for the song on his official website.
The film will open in Japan in February.
The film stars:
Ryō Yoshizawa (Kamen Rider Fourze, Gintama, Tomodachi Game) as Ichirō Yamada
The main cast also includes (clockwise from upper left in image below):
- Aoi Morikawa as Kanna Tajima, a classmate of Yamada's who seems unconditionally kind to him
- Shūhei Uesugi as Kannonzaki, Haruna's boyfriend who bullies Yamada
- Shiori Doi as Rumi Koyama, Haruna's friend who gets pregnant but doesn't know who the father is
- SUMIRE as Kozue Yoshikawa, a model with an eating disorder who grows closer to Haruna and Yamada
Isao Yukisada (Crying Out Love, In the Center of the World) is directing the film.
The manga centers on Haruna Wakagusa, a high school girl living in a town during the 1990s, and Ichirō Yamada, a bullied gay teen. Haruna gets to know Ichirō after she helps Ichirō while he was being bullied by Kannonzaki, Haruna's ex-boyfriend. While together, they see a dead body by the riverbank that becomes their shared secret.
Okazaki launched the manga in Takarajimasha's CUTiE magazine in 1993 and ended it in 1994. Takarajimasha published the one compiled book volume of the manga in 2000, and again in a hardcover edition in 2008. Takarajimashi re-issued the manga again in 2015. All three versions have different covers (seen left is the 2015 reprint).
Another manga by Okazaki, Helter Skelter, also inspired a live-action film in 2012.
Source: Comic Natalie
