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Live-Action Tonde Saitama Film Reveals Trailer, Poster

posted on by Crystalyn Hodgkins
Hanawa performs theme song for film opening on February 22

Toei began streaming a trailer on Monday for the live-action film adaptation of Mineo Maya's Tonde Saitama manga. The video reveals and previews Hanawa's theme song "Saitama-ken no Uta" (The Song of Saitama Prefecture).

The company also revealed a new poster visual for the film.

Hideki Takeuchi (live-action Nodame Cantabile, Thermae Romae) is directing the film, and Tomokazu Tokunaga (live-action Densha Otoko) is writing the script.

The film will open in Japan on February 22. There are two parts to the film: a "legend part" that focuses on Rei and Momomi, and a "modern part" that focuses on a certain Saitama family through whom the legend is told.

The film stars:

In the story, those who live in Saitama Prefecture are ruthlessly persecuted by those who live in Tokyo, so the citizens of Saitama Prefecture hide this fact from others. High school student Momomi Dannoura is the son of the governor of Tokyo, and he is also the student council president at Hokuhodo Academy, the top high school in Tokyo. One day, he meets Rei Asami, a mysterious transfer student who has returned from America. Rei and Momomi are captivated by each other, but Momomi knows Rei is from Saitama Prefecture. The manga tells the story of two people split by a prefectural border, a Saitama "Romeo and Juliet." The couple try to elope and start a revolution to liberate Saitama Prefecture.

Maya originally launched the one-volume manga in Hakusensha's Hana to Yume magazine in 1982. Takarajimasha published a new compiled version of the manga in 2015 titled Kono Manga ga Sugoi! comics Tonde Saitama. The manga has 620,000 copies in print.

Source: Press release


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