There are 401 paintings on set; remember that the film will be written by Reiko Yoshida, who had already edited the animated series
by zettaiLara
Last April we learned the news that the famous opera Blue Period Of Tsubasa Yamaguchiin Italy for J-Pop Mangawould have enjoyed a live-action film adaptation, arriving on Japanese big screens on August 9, 2024 for Warner Bros.
The producer now releases a complete trailer for the film Blue Periodalong with an unreleased poster and several visuals featuring it Gordon Maeda (Tokyo Revengers) in the title role Yatora Yaguchi.
Next to him we find ourselves Fumiya Takahashi (I will be your Bloom, Fermat’s Cuisine) about Ryuji Ayukawa, Rihito Itagaki (Silent, Mars) about Yotasuke Takahashi and Hiyori Sakurada (Silent) about Maru Mori.
In the trailer we can hear the theme “NOISE” sung by WurtS.
The names of the cast assigned to the supporting roles were also announced:
- Hiroko Yakushimaru is the art teacher Masako Saeki;
- Noriko Eguchi is my colleague Mayu Ōba;
- Hikari Ishida it is Yatora’s mother, Marie Yaguchi, who intends to hinder her artistic path;
- Sena Nakajima is Maki Kuwana, Yatora’s classmate;
- Ikuho Akiya she is Haruka Hashida, Yatora’s classmate who is always particularly well dressed;
- Katsumi Hyōdō he is Koigakubo, Yatora’s classmate struck by the latter’s passion;
- Masaki Miura he is the teacher Gotō;
- Yasuhide Aiki is Yukinobu Yaguchi, Yatora’s father.
Kentaro Hagiwaraformer director of the film by Tokyo Ghoulwill direct the work written by Reiko Yoshidawhich had taken care of the same task for the animated version of Blue Period; Yūki “Yaffle” Kojima he will work on the soundtrack instead.
Curiosity: at the behest of the director, who wanted to recreate the most authentic atmosphere possible, they appear on the set 401 paintings, which reflect images seen in the manga; 300 of these were specifically created to set up the environments. Some were created directly by the actors, who spent a good six months practicing their respective roles.
Yatora Yaguchi is what you might call the perfect high school student: he is surrounded by friends, loves studying and manages to get good grades without struggling. It’s an everyday life that gets boring to him, and when one day he ventures by chance into the art club room, a solitary painting captures his attention and awakens in him a vocation for art that he never knew he had. The boy throws himself into it headlong, enrolling in a university with an artistic focus: he will thus learn how wild and unforgivable art can prove to be.
Let’s remember that the seinen manga of Yamaguchi made its debut within the magazine Afternoon Of Kodansha in June 2017, which has so far published fifteen volumes; the work went on hiatus last November, but the resumption of serialization is scheduled for this spring.
Nominated for the prestigious Manga Taisho in 2019, Blue Period it won this recognition the following year, together with the Award for Best General Manga at the 44th edition of Kodansha Manga Awards always in 2020; he was then also appointed to 24th Osamu Tezuka Cultural Award and placed 14th on the list of recommended reading titles for a male audience in the ranking Kono Manga ga Sugoi!.
The work has already inspired an animated series in 2021 which will then be distributed on Netflix and subsequently also dubbed into Italian; a theatrical version was also made in March 2022.
Sources consulted:
Anime News Network
Comic Natalie
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AsianWiki
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