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Live-Action 5 Centimeters Per Second Film Unveils More Cast, New Poster
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The official website for the live-action film of Makoto Shinkai's 5 Centimeters per Second anime film unveiled more cast members and a new poster for the film on Wednesday.
The newly announced cast members are:
(Top row, left to right in image above)
- Takashi Okabe as Kunihiko Kubota, Takaki's superior in the software company where he works
- Seina Nakata as Asami Kaneko, Takaki's colleague at work
- Kentarō Tamura as Sōjirō Toda, Takaki's colleague at work
- Junki Tozuka as Nao Sakai, Takaki's colleague at work
- Daw90000 member Shō Hasumi as Yasushi Ōno, Takaki's colleague at work
- Naoki Matayoshi as Osamu Shibata, the manager of the Kinokuniya Shinjuku bookstore where Akari works
- Keiko Horiuchi as Shikiko Tamura, an employee at Kinokuniya Shinjuku
- Himi Satō as Sumito Ōhashi, a part-time employee at Kinokuniya Shinjuku
- Ayana Shiramoto as Shōko Sunasaka, a high school girl in Tanegashima, and Kanae's friend
Previously announced cast members include:
- Haruto Ueda as child Takaki Toono
- Noa Shiroyama as child Akari Shinohara
- Mitsuki Takahata as adult Akari Shinohara
- Yuzu Aoki as high school-aged Takaki Toono
- Nana Mori as Kanae Sumida
- Mai Kiryū 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.
Spoon is producing the film, and TOHO will distribute. Yoshiyuki Okuyama is directing, and Ayako Suzuki wrote the script. Ayatake Ezaki is composing 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, Comic Natalie
