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Live-Action One Week Friends Film Adds Cast With Original Character
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
The staff for the live-action Isshūkan Friends.) manga revealed more cast , including one for an original character, on Tuesday.
The additional cast includes (clockwise from upper left):
- Shūhei Uesugi as Hajime Kujō, a transfer student who knows Kaori's past
- Haori Takahashi as Saki Yamagishi, Kaori and Yūki's classmate and Yūki's childhood friend
- Jun Inoue, the homeroom teacher of Kaori and Yūki's class
- Masahiro Kōmoto as Takayuki, Kaori's father
- Mayu Kondō, an original character for the film who is Kaori's friend from junior high
- Sayuri Kokushō as Shiho Fujimiya, Kaori's mother
They will Your Lie in April), who will play Kaori Fujimiya (seen left in photo below) and Yūki Hase (right), respectively.
play Shōgo Kiryū. Shōgo is the close friend of the male lead character Yūki Hase.
The story of the manga revolves around Yūki, a boy who wants to become friends with his classmate and desk neighbor Kaori. However, she gently declines his friendship, saying, “But, my... memories of my friends disappear in a week...” Even so, Yūki wants to become her friend, and so the two become friends over and over again as the weeks .
The film started on principal photography last December。Shōsuke Murakami (live-action Akai Ito) is directing the film, while Yōko Izumisawa (Garo -Goldstorm- Shō) wrote the script. The film will open in Japan in February 2017.
Hazuki began the manga in 2012, and final compiled book volume in April 2015.
A television licensed the series for digital and home video release in North America.
Hazuki also Gangan Joker last October.
Source: Comic Natalie
