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Seven Days War Adds Tomokazu Seki, Ryusei Nakao to Cast

The staff for the Bokura no Nanokakan Sensō (Seven Days War or Our Seven-Day War) novel revealed three more cast for the film on Friday.

The new cast includes:

• Mitsuru Miyamoto as Kaori Yamazaki's father
• Tomokazu Seki as an immigration
• Ryūsei Nakao as a high-level politician

The film opens in Japan on December 13, and stars:

• Takumi Kitamura as Mamoru Suzuhara
• Kyōko Yoshine as Aya Chiyono
• Megumi Han as Kaori Yamazaki
• Tatsuhisa Suzuki as Sōma Ogata
• Takeo Ōtsuka as Hiroto Honjō
• Haruka Michii as Saki Akutsu
• Makoto Koichi as Malet
• MASAHIKO Honda

Actress return from the original 1988 live-action film to play the character Hitomi Nakayama, the same character she played in the 1988 film as her major debut role.

The mystery story and social satire begins on the day before summer vacation, when every boy in a first-year class of a downtown Tokyo middle school disappears. Was it some accident? A mass kidnapping? Actually, the boys holed themselves up in an abandoned factory on the riverbed. With from the schoolgirls, the boys start a revolution against the adults from this "liberation zone." The new anime film shifts the settings to Hokkaido in the year 2020.

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Kadokawa Shoten published the novel in April 1985, and the novel inspired a live-action film starring Rie Miyazawa in 1988. The novel also spawned a series of print sequels and spinoffs that has sold over 170 million copies and has added new volumes as recently as last year.

launched a new manga based on the film (as opposed to the original novel) in Kadokawa's Monthly Comic Gene on August 16.

Source: Comic Natalie