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Live-Action Rainbow Days Film's Video Previews Kenji Furuya Theme Song

The official Kenji Furuya created specifically for the film.

The film opens in Japan on July 6.

The film's male cast Taishi Nakagawa as Tomoya Matsunaga, and Ryūsei Yokohama as Keiichi Katakura.

The female cast includes (clockwise from upper left in picture above):

• Riko Yoshida as Anna Kobayakawa, a reserved girl whom Natsuki has a crush on
• Yuri Tsunematsu as Mari Tsutsui, Anna's friend who speaks bluntly and hates most men
• Nozomi Bandō as Reiko Chiba, a classmate of Natsuki and the others, and a volleyball team member
• Yukiko Asai, Tsuyoshi's girlfriend who likes cosplaying

Saint Young Men) is writing the screenplay. Filming took place from mid October to November last year.

The film will also have five Shōgo Kaida composed the song, and director Ken Iizuka wrote the lyrics.

Chikusa Kishima is Shueisha's Orange Bunko light novel label, and it will ship on Thursday, June 21. Hanomakimi is writing a novel based on the film for Shueisha's Mirai Bunko youth literature label, and it will ship on Friday, June 22. Hanomakimi is also writing a novel tentatively titled ~Tsutsui Mari no Yūutsu~ (The Melancholy of Mari Tsutsui) based on the original manga, and it will also ship on Friday from Mirai Bunko.

In addition, the live-action film will get an official book (pictured right) on June 22 with photo shoots, behind-the-scenes photos, and interviews with the main cast. The compiled volume for Nijiiro Biyori, the manga's side story, will ship on June 25 as the manga's 16th volume.

Rainbow Days centers on a group of four male high school students who are close friends: Natsuki, Tomoya, Keiichi, and Tsuyoshi. The four boys have no club activities, and they hurry through their studies so they can spend their days having fun. Their main topic of interest: love. Natsuki has an unrequited crush on Anna, a girl from another class, and his friends keep meddling in their relationship.

Mizuno launched the manga in Shueisha's launched it as an irregular series last July.

The original manga inspired a drama CD that Shueisha bundled with a limited edition of the seventh volume in October 2014. The manga then inspired a television original anime DVD in September 2016.

Source: Cinema Today's official YouTube channel