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Words Bubble Up Like Soda Pop Film to Open on June 25 After COVID-19 Delay
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Distributor Shochiku updated the film's teaser and full trailers to reflect the new date:
Ishiguro is also YouTube channel for behind-the-scene stories about the movie in the eight months leading up to its release. He will videos every week around 6:00 p.m. on Tuesdays. (The screening's interpretor inadvertently said July for the film's opening date, the movie's website confirmed the June date.)
The "boy-meets-girl" story depicts how words and music bridge the gap between Cherry, a boy who is terrible at communicating with other people, and Smile, a girl who hides behind a mask. They meet in a mundane suburban shopping mall in a provincial city.
Cherry always wears headphones and puts the feelings he cannot utter into his hobby, Japanese haiku poems. Smile always wears a mask to conceal her large front teeth, for which she has dental braces. As a popular Video Star, she streams a video about seeking "cuteness."
The original film commemorates the 10th anniversary of A Silent Voice) is scoring the music.
Ōnoimo (Astoria Activate) Monthly Comic Alive magazine on November 27.
Sources: Tokyo International Film Festival screening (reporting by Kim Morrissy) Cider no Yō ni Kotoba ga Wakiagaru film's website
