The official website for the upcoming anime film adaptation of Shinji Ishii's Toritsukareotoko (literally means "A man obsessed with something") novel announced the film's two lead voice actors today. Masaya Sano , a member of Starto Entertainment's male idol group Ae! Group, is cast as the protagonist Giuseppe, while actor and singer Moka Kamishiraishi , previously played the protagonist Kun Ota in Mamoru Hosoda's 2018 film Mirai , voices the main heroine Pechka. Their character voices are featured for the first time in the film's music trailer below. Toristukareotoko Music Trailer Giuseppe voiced by Masaya Sano Message from Masaya Sano: I am Masaya Sano, who is obsessed with Giuseppe. The first time I saw the visual, I was captivated by the warmth-filled animation drawn by hand, frame by frame, and unique characters, and Giuseppe, who lives his life so purely, gives me courage. When you leave the theater after watching this movie,...
- 7/29/2025
- by Mikikazu Komatsu
- Crunchyroll
Shinji Ishii's Toritsukareotoko novel will receive an anime feature film adaptation in the fall of 2025. The title literally means "A man obsessed with something." The film's official website and X (formerly Twitter) opened today with a teaser trailer and visual. Toritsukareotoko Teaser Trailer Teaser Visual Ishii's original Toritsukareotoko novel was published by Billiken Shuppan in 2001 and was later published in a bunko edition by Shinchosha in 2006. The story centers on, a young man named Giuseppe, who is called "Toristukareotoko" by the townspeople because once he gets absorbed in something, he cannot look at anything else. One day, he falls in love at first sight with a girl selling balloons named Pechka. He goes crazy and tries to get closer to Pechka, but she has a sadness in her heart and... For the sake of his beloved Pechyka, Giuseppe and his partner, the mouse Cielo, secretly solve her worries...
- 5/21/2025
- by Mikikazu Komatsu
- Crunchyroll
Five years separate the two halves of “Super Happy Forever,” a delicate, unassuming but subtly complex love story in reverse that doesn’t dart between timelines, instead offering the past as a bittersweet chaser to the present. It’s a gap short enough for little to have changed at the sleepy Japanese beach resort where the film is set: Faces and places stay much the same, though melancholic protagonist Sano (Hiroki Sano) has perhaps too much faith in the time-bridging powers of a hotel’s lost-and-found desk. A key absence, however, makes every carried-over similarity from the past feel to Sano like a cruel reproach. In Kohei Igarashi’s elegant fourth feature, the stifling atmosphere of grief precedes our acquaintance with its object; our sadness laps Sano’s own.
A mellow opening film for this year’s Venice Days program, the ruefully titled “Super Happy Forever” sees Igarashi working in a breezier,...
A mellow opening film for this year’s Venice Days program, the ruefully titled “Super Happy Forever” sees Igarashi working in a breezier,...
- 8/29/2024
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
Tsugaru city has been the subject of a number of films throughout the years, with one of the first being Atg’s “Tsugaru Folk Song” exactly 50 years ago. Now, a new movie focuses on another aspect of the area that stands out, the lacquerware industry, once more, though, in order to make a number of social comments about life in the area and how difficult it can be escaping tradition. The movie is based on the novel “Japan Dignity” by Miyuki Takamori.
Tsugaru Lacquer Girl is screening at Camera Japan
Traditional lacquerwork kitchenware is the Aoki family’s legacy, but is also in decline, with the financial prowess of Seishiro’s father being nowhere to be found at the time the movie starts. Seishiro, however, knows nothing else to do, and so he keeps at it, with the help of his daughter, Miyako, who also works at a supermarket in...
Tsugaru Lacquer Girl is screening at Camera Japan
Traditional lacquerwork kitchenware is the Aoki family’s legacy, but is also in decline, with the financial prowess of Seishiro’s father being nowhere to be found at the time the movie starts. Seishiro, however, knows nothing else to do, and so he keeps at it, with the help of his daughter, Miyako, who also works at a supermarket in...
- 9/29/2023
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
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