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Neofilms Opens Seven Days War Film in Hong Kong in March
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Hong Kong film distributor Neofilms announced last Friday that it will open the Bokura no Nanokakan Sensō (Seven Days War or Our Seven-Day War) novel in Hong Kong in March.
The film opened in Japan on December 13. It opened outside of the top 10 at #11 in its opening weekend.
The cast includes:
- 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
- Mitsuru Miyamoto as Kaori Yamazaki's father
- Tomokazu Seki as an immigration
- Ryūsei Nakao as a high-level politician
Actress returned 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.
ended on December 13.
