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Your Lie in April Live-Action Film Unveils Visual, Additional Cast

posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Hirotaro Honda September 10 film

The official website of the live-action Suzu Hirose (right) as Kaori Miyazono.

The additional cast includes Hirotaro Honda will also play as-yet unannounced roles in the film. They will the rest of the film's cast:

Kento Yamazaki (Orange live-action film's Kakeru, Death Note live-action series' L) as Kōsei Arima

Suzu Hirose (Umimachi Diary live-action film's Suzu) as Kaori Miyazono

E-girls all-female pop group member Yukari Tatsui.

The film will open in Japan on September 10.

Kaori: Friend A, I name you as my accompanist.
Text: The tear-filled youth love story finally gets a film.
Text: The naive and bright violinist.
Text: The genius pianist who can no longer play the piano.
Kōsei: I can't play.
Kaori: Just try it.
Kaori: Let's just leap forward as hard as we can!
Kōsei: You're the embodiment of free-spirited, aren't you?
Text: But she...
Text: Has a secret she can't tell anyone.
Narrator and Logo: Your Lie in April

In the original manga's story, the two characters are junior high school students, but Kōsei and Kaori will be second-year high school students in the film. Yamazaki and Hirose began practicing piano and violin about half a year before the start of filming.

A television anime series adaptation of Arakawa's manga premiered in 2014. dub, with the first Blu-ray Disc released on March 29, and the second volume slated for May 31.

Arakawa's original shōnen manga follows Kōsei Arima, a former child prodigy who lost his ability to play the piano when his mother died. His daily life is monochrome, but it begins to gain color when he meets a female violinist by chance. Kaori Miyazono is an audacious go-getter who is overflowing with personality. Enchanted by the girl, Kōsei starts to move forward with his own legs at the age of 14.

The manga debuted in released the seventh volume on Tuesday.

Image © Naoshi Arakawa/Kodansha

Source: Comic Natalie


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