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Encore Films to Screen I Want to Eat Your Pancreas Anime Film in Singapore

posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Romantic drama film based on Yoru Sumino novel opens in Japan on September 1

Singaporean film distributor Encore Films announced on Monday that it will screen the anime film of Yoru Sumino's I want to eat your pancreas (Kimi no Suizō o Tabetai) novel in Singapore. It did not give an opening date for the film.

The film received a preview screening for the full film on July 24 in Tokyo. The film will open on September 1 in Japan.

Mahiro Takasugi voices the unnamed protagonist, and Lynn plays the lead female character Sakura Yamauchi. Other cast members include:

Shin'ichirō Ushijima is directing the film and writing the script, while Yūichi Oka is the chief animation director and character designer. Hiroko Sebu is composing the music. Studio VOLN (Idol Incidents, Ushio & Tora) is producing the animation.

Other staff members include:

In addition to the theme song "Shunkashūtō" (The Four Seasons), sumika is performing the opening theme song "Fanfare."

The novel's story is told from the point of view of an unnamed protagonist who happens to find a diary in a hospital one day. The diary belongs to his classmate, a girl named Sakura Yamauchi, who is revealed to be suffering from a terminal illness in her pancreas, and who only has a few months left to live. Sakura explains that the protagonist is the only person apart from her family that knows about her condition. The protagonist promises to keep Sakura's secret. Despite their completely opposite personalities, the protagonist decides to be together with Sakura during her last few months.

Sumino began serializing the story on the Shōsetsu-ka ni Narō ("Let's Become Novelists") website in 2014. Futabasha published the novel in print in June 2015, with cover art by loundraw (Tsuki ga Kirei character designer). The novel and various related books have since reached more than 2 million copies in print.

The novel already inspired a live-action film starring Takumi Kitamura (DISH//) and Minami Hamabe, and the film premiered in Japan in July 2017. The live-action film played at the Busan International Film Festival in South Korea and in Malaysia and Singapore under the title Let Me Eat Your Pancreas. The film opened in Singapore last September.

The novel also inspired Idumi Kirihara's manga adaptation, which launched in Futabasha's Monthly Action magazine in August 2016 and ended in May 2017. Futabasha published the manga's second and final compiled book volume in June 2017.

Source: Encore Films' Facebook page


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