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Live-Action 5 Centimeters Per Second Film Screens at Busan Film Fest, Gets Asian Release
posted on by Joanna Cayanan
The Open Cinema section of the Busan International Film Festival screens popular, artistically rich new films, and also internationally acclaimed films on an outdoor screen at the festival's venue, the Busan Cinema Center. The festival screening is the film's international premiere.
The film will open in Japan on October 10.
SixTONES member Hokuto Matsumura (Suzume's Sōta Munakata) stars in the live-action film.
The cast includes:
- 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
- Takashi Okabe as Kunihiko Kubota
- Seina Nakata as Asami Kaneko
- Kentarō Tamura as Sōjirō Toda
- Junki Tozuka as Nao Sakai
- Daw90000 member Shō Hasumi as Yasushi Ōno
- Naoki Matayoshi as Osamu Shibata
- Keiko Horiuchi as Shikiko Tamura
- Himi Satō as Sumito Ōhashi
- Ayana Shiramoto as Shōko Sunasaka
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. Kenshi Yonezu performs the theme song "1991."
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 whom 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 live-action film's website, Eiga.com
