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Live-Action Kōdai-ke no Hitobito Film's Trailer Previews Theme Song

The official website of the live-action film adaptation of Gokusen creator Kozueko Morimoto's Kōdai-ke no Hitobito manga began streaming a trailer and teaser for the film, and unveiled a new poster on Thursday. The trailer previews the film's theme song "You & Me" by Kana Nishino.

Narrator: A poor-talking girl prone to daydreaming: Kie Hirano.
Text: Daydreaming girl: Kie Hirano
Narrator: She daydreams about the prince of the famous Kodai family every day..
Girl: Fact is, that guy is royalty, part of family involved in a lot of conspiracies.
Mitsumasa: This is my younger sister Shigeko, and my younger brother Kazumasa.
Kie: Maybe they're some kind of vampire clan.
Narrator: But Kie's daydreams are instantly revealed to them!
Kie: I like you!
Mitsumasa: Me too.
Kie: What?
Yūko: I don't approve of it. You'll end up regretting it.
Masao: Cheers!
Shigeko: Are you going to talk about telepaths?
Mitsumasa: I've never wanted to look at someone else's heart before. Only yours, Kie. Will you marry me?
Text: Will you be happy if your thoughts could be read?
Kie: Telepath? If anybody knew about that, I'd be so embarrassed I would die.
Mitsumasa: She's dead.
Text: Would you be happy if you could read minds?
Kie: Do you know what it's like to be read like an open book?
Kazumasa: If you get married, you have to properly talk to her about it.
Girl: He understands it.
Narrator: Can they reveal everything in their hearts and get married?
Kie: I love you!
Text: Imaginary dwarf.
Dwarf: I'm sorry.
Kie: Not you!
Text: Turning daydreams into happiness.
Narrator and Logo: Kōdai-ke no Hitobito

Text: Daydreaming girl: Kie Hirano
Narrator: A poor-talking girl prone to daydreaming, Kie Hirano, falls in love with a...
Kie: Telepath?
Kie: I like you!
Mitsumasa: Me too.
Kie: What?
Man: We can see everything, you know.
Text: He can see her daydreams?!
Kie: Telepath? If anybody knew about that, I'd be so embarrassed I would die.
Mitsumasa: She's dead.
Kie: Do you know what it's like to be read like an open book?
Narrator: Can you show everything in your heart to the one you love?
Kie: I love you!
Text: Imaginary dwarf.
Dwarf: I'm sorry.
Kie: Not you!
Narrator and Logo: Kōdai-ke no Hitobito

The cast includes (clockwise starting from top row left):

• Haruka Ayase as Kie Hirano
• Takumi Saitō as Mitsumasa Kōdai
• Masachiki Ichimura as Shigemasa Jr. (Masao)
• Mao Daichi as Yūko Kōdai
• Shōtarō Mamiya as Kazumasa Kōdai
• Kiko Mizuhara as Shigeko Kōdai

Masato Hijikata (Zettai Kareshi - Kanzen Muketsu no Koibito Robot, Night Head) is directing the film, with scripts by Arisa Kaneko (Densha Otoko). The film will open on June 4.

The story centers around Kie Hirano, a 30-year old female office worker with a large-scale imagination. She gets to know Mitsumasa Kōdai, a handsome colleague, who also happens to be a telepath who can read people's thoughts. Mitsumasa is charmed by Kie's personality, and they start a relationship. Mitsumasa's mother Yūko judges Kie to be unfit to marry her son, but the family matriarch Ann makes Yūko retract the statement. Now Ann teaches Kie how to be a proper lady, and Kie's life becomes intertwined with the Kōdai family.

Morimoto (Kenshūi Nanako, Deka Wanko) launched the Kōdai-ke no Hitobito manga in Shueisha's Monthly You magazine in February 2013, after publishing a one-shot "Kōdai-ke no Hitobito" manga in the magazine's December 2012 issue. Shueisha published the manga's fourth compiled book volume last September.

Source: Comic Natalie