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Live-Action 5 Centimeters Per Second Film Opens in Vietnam on January 16
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Vietnamese cinema chain Lotte Cinema announced on Tuesday that the live-action film of Makoto Shinkai's 5 Centimeters per Second anime film will open in Vietnam on January 16.
The film will also screen throughout Asia, with screenings in Korea, Vietnam, Thailand, and Indonesia.
The film opened in Japan on October 10, and ranked at #2 in its opening weekend. he film sold 278,000 tickets and earned 420 million yen (about US$2.78 million) in its first three days from Friday to Sunday, and sold 380,000 tickets and earned 500 milliion yen (about US$3.31 million) in its first four days counting Monday (Monday, October 13 was the Sports Day holiday in Japan).
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 produced the film, and TOHO distributed. Yoshiyuki Okuyama directed, and Ayako Suzuki wrote the script. Ayatake Ezaki composed 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.
Shinkai directed, wrote, and storyboarded the anime film, and was also the sound director, producer, and art director. Tenmon composed the music
