A new trailer and key visual was revealed on March 18, 2024 for A Silent Voice director Naoko Yamada’s latest anime film, Kimi No Iro, which tells the story of a high school girl who can see people’s emotions as colors.
The movie, animated by Science Saru, will release in theatres in Japan on Aug 30, 2024. It was originally set to release in 2023, but then got delayed.
Check out the trailer and the key visual below.
Director Yamada, emphasizing the importance of the audience’s cinematic experience, elaborated on Kimi no Iro‘s core concept of “seeing people’s hearts through colors,” explaining, “It’s a very sensory concept, and to bring it to life as a visual experience, I consciously avoided verbalizing it. I wanted to express the protagonist Totsuko’s perception of the world through colors.”
Yamada mentioned the focus on effectively communicating the film’s worldview and core themes to the staff,...
The movie, animated by Science Saru, will release in theatres in Japan on Aug 30, 2024. It was originally set to release in 2023, but then got delayed.
Check out the trailer and the key visual below.
Director Yamada, emphasizing the importance of the audience’s cinematic experience, elaborated on Kimi no Iro‘s core concept of “seeing people’s hearts through colors,” explaining, “It’s a very sensory concept, and to bring it to life as a visual experience, I consciously avoided verbalizing it. I wanted to express the protagonist Totsuko’s perception of the world through colors.”
Yamada mentioned the focus on effectively communicating the film’s worldview and core themes to the staff,...
- 3/18/2024
- by Ami Nazru
- AnimeHunch
Following a delay from its original Fall 2023 window, upcoming anime film Kimi no Iro ( Your Colors ) today announced a new premiere date of August 30, 2024 in Japan with the release of a special trailer and visual. A cast list stacked with newcomers was also revealed, including Sayu Suzukawa as Totsuko Higurashi, Akari Takaishi as Kimi Sakunaga, Taisei Kido as Louis Kagehira and Yui Aragaki as Sister Hiyoko, who are all introduced in the trailer below. 'Color' Visual Naoko Yamada helms the film as director and original creator at studio Science Saru, with a script by Reiko Yoshida ( Liz and the Blue Bird ), soundtrack by Kensuke Ushio ( The Heike Story ) and daisukerichard's original character designs adapted for animation by Takashi Kojima ( Ride Your Wave ), who also serves as animation director. Story inc., which has worked with Makoto Shinkai since Weathering With You , is planning and producing the film with Toho distributing the film in Japan.
- 3/18/2024
- by Liam Dempsey
- Crunchyroll
Hiroki Terai (Goro Inagaki) works as a prosecutor with the Yokohama Public Prosecutors' Office. He's married with a son in elementary school, but his son often skips school so Hiroki is worried that he may be rejecting society. Natsuki Kiryu (Yui Aragaki) works at a mall in Hiroshima but she secretly wants to disconnect from society. Hiroki and Natsuki are brought together through events surrounding an accidental death.
- 11/28/2023
- by Don Anelli
- AsianMoviePulse
Following decades in television and film, including stints as a producer, screenwriter and documentary filmmaker, Yoshiyuki Kishi made his feature directorial debut in 2016, aged 52, with Double Life, attracting some international festival attention.
He returned the following year with the ambitious Wilderness, based on the only novel by Shuji Terayama. Released in two parts a few weeks apart in Japan, with a combined running time of more than five hours, Wilderness portrayed two very different social outcasts on their journey to becoming professional boxers, against the backdrop of a socially disintegrating Japan. It landed Masaki Suda best actor at the Japan Academy Awards, and Korea’s Yang Ik-june best supporting actor at the Asian Film Awards.
Kishi’s latest, (Ab)normal Desire, is almost certainly his most challenging and complex work to date. Selected in competition at this year’s Tokyo International Film Festival and starring Yui Aragaki, Goro Inagaki,...
He returned the following year with the ambitious Wilderness, based on the only novel by Shuji Terayama. Released in two parts a few weeks apart in Japan, with a combined running time of more than five hours, Wilderness portrayed two very different social outcasts on their journey to becoming professional boxers, against the backdrop of a socially disintegrating Japan. It landed Masaki Suda best actor at the Japan Academy Awards, and Korea’s Yang Ik-june best supporting actor at the Asian Film Awards.
Kishi’s latest, (Ab)normal Desire, is almost certainly his most challenging and complex work to date. Selected in competition at this year’s Tokyo International Film Festival and starring Yui Aragaki, Goro Inagaki,...
- 10/28/2023
- by Gavin J Blair
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Sixth-grade elementary school students Kazuki, Taichi, and Sunny have a “wish” they really hope would come true. The boys pray earnestly at the shrine. Suddenly, the wish-granting “Ghost Book” resonates with them and gives them a test. Guided by the magic of the Ghost Book, the boys and their homeroom teacher, Ms. Yohko, wander into a different world where ghosts live. They try to escape through trial and error but it seems that by catching the ghosts and completing the book, their wishes will come true and they will then be able to escape from this world. Thus, the five work together to challenge the scary ghosts and hope to make their wish come true. [Sources: Jfdb and Far East Films]
This fantasy adventure is written and directed by Takashi Yamazaki (Lupin III: The First). It is based on a children’s picture book “Obake Zukan” written by Hiroshi Saito and illustrated by Etsuyoshi Miyamoto.
This fantasy adventure is written and directed by Takashi Yamazaki (Lupin III: The First). It is based on a children’s picture book “Obake Zukan” written by Hiroshi Saito and illustrated by Etsuyoshi Miyamoto.
- 4/28/2022
- by Suzie Cho
- AsianMoviePulse
Beauty and the Beast, released locally as Bijo to Yaju – the title of the original fairytale in Japanese, topped the weekend box office in Japan with $986,000 (¥114 million) after debuting in the third spot last week for distributor Gaga. The French-German production, starring Vincent Cassel as the beast, saw its take drop significantly from its debut over the three-day holiday last weekend, but still rose to the top of the charts. In an unspectacular weekend at the Japanese box office, supernatural thriller Twilight Sasara Saya, starring Yui Aragaki as a young widowed mother, brought in
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- 11/11/2014
- by Gavin J. Blair
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The official website for Nobuhiro Doi‘s Hanamizuki has been updated with a full trailer. The film is named after and inspired by a hit 2004 single by singer Yo Hitoto which is also used as the main theme song.
Yui Aragaki stars as a Hokkaido high school student named Sae who lives with her mother Ryoko (Hiroko Yakushimaru) and dreams of attending a Tokyo university. Sae studies for her entrance exams while being watched over by the flowering dogwood tree (hanamizuki) planted by her father (Arata), who died when she was young. Eventually, she meets and falls in love with Kohei (Toma Ikuta), who is planning to stay in Hokkaido and become a fisherman like his father. When Sae leaves Hokkaido for university, they attempt a long-distance relationship, but it’s ill-fated. However, a miracle occurs ten years later…
Toho will be releasing “Hanamizuki” in Japan on August 21, 2010.
Thanks to logboy for the heads up.
Yui Aragaki stars as a Hokkaido high school student named Sae who lives with her mother Ryoko (Hiroko Yakushimaru) and dreams of attending a Tokyo university. Sae studies for her entrance exams while being watched over by the flowering dogwood tree (hanamizuki) planted by her father (Arata), who died when she was young. Eventually, she meets and falls in love with Kohei (Toma Ikuta), who is planning to stay in Hokkaido and become a fisherman like his father. When Sae leaves Hokkaido for university, they attempt a long-distance relationship, but it’s ill-fated. However, a miracle occurs ten years later…
Toho will be releasing “Hanamizuki” in Japan on August 21, 2010.
Thanks to logboy for the heads up.
- 6/13/2010
- Nippon Cinema
The official website for Nobuhiro Doi‘s Hanamizuki has been updated with a teaser trailer. The teaser actually premiered on Japanese TV a few weeks ago, but it was predictably covered with morning news graphics and talked over by a chatty announcer.
The film is named after and inspired by a hit 2004 single by singer Yo Hitoto which is also used as the main theme song. Yui Aragaki stars as a Hokkaido high school student named Sae who lives with her mother Ryoko (Hiroko Yakushimaru) and dreams of attending a Tokyo university. Sae studies for her entrance exams while being watched over by the flowering dogwood tree (hanamizuki) planted by her father (Arata), who died when she was young. Eventually, she meets and falls in love with Kohei (Toma Ikuta), who is planning to stay in Hokkaido and become a fisherman like his father. When Sae leaves Hokkaido for university,...
The film is named after and inspired by a hit 2004 single by singer Yo Hitoto which is also used as the main theme song. Yui Aragaki stars as a Hokkaido high school student named Sae who lives with her mother Ryoko (Hiroko Yakushimaru) and dreams of attending a Tokyo university. Sae studies for her entrance exams while being watched over by the flowering dogwood tree (hanamizuki) planted by her father (Arata), who died when she was young. Eventually, she meets and falls in love with Kohei (Toma Ikuta), who is planning to stay in Hokkaido and become a fisherman like his father. When Sae leaves Hokkaido for university,...
- 4/18/2010
- Nippon Cinema
Oh boy, Japanese film makers sometimes really choose weird source material for their live-action adaptations. Ballad: Namonaki Koi no Uta is based on an animated (and awarded) Crayon Shin-chan movie from 2002 that has been put in a more serious shell for this adaptation.
The film tells the story of a young princess (Yui Aragaki) who constantly rejects the arranged marriage with a ruler of a neighboring state and thus brings the states to the brink of war. Smap member Tsuyoshi Kusanagi (yes, the one who got arrested for some drunk Eden of the East cosplaying back in April) plays a soldier who wants to win the princess’ heart. To make things even more complicated the couple to-be gets visited by Shinichi (Akashi Takei), a young boy from the future…
[See post to watch Flash video] Director Takashi Yamazaki’s Ballad: Namonaki Koi no Uta will open in Japan on September 5th 2009.
[via Nippon Cinema]...
The film tells the story of a young princess (Yui Aragaki) who constantly rejects the arranged marriage with a ruler of a neighboring state and thus brings the states to the brink of war. Smap member Tsuyoshi Kusanagi (yes, the one who got arrested for some drunk Eden of the East cosplaying back in April) plays a soldier who wants to win the princess’ heart. To make things even more complicated the couple to-be gets visited by Shinichi (Akashi Takei), a young boy from the future…
[See post to watch Flash video] Director Takashi Yamazaki’s Ballad: Namonaki Koi no Uta will open in Japan on September 5th 2009.
[via Nippon Cinema]...
- 8/11/2009
- by Ulrik
- Affenheimtheater
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