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Kento Yamazaki, Emi Takei Join Cast For 3rd Yo-kai Watch Film's Live-Action Segments
posted on by Crystalyn Hodgkins
The staff of the third Yōkai Watch film, titled Eiga Yo-kai Watch: Sora Tobu Kujira to Double no Sekai no Daibōken da Nyan! (Yo-kai Watch The Movie: The Flying Whale and the Grand Adventure of the Double Worlds, Meow!), revealed on Saturday more of the cast that will star in the live-action scenes of the film.
The actors include (from left to right and top to bottom):
- Kento Yamazaki (live-action Orange, Death Note, Your Lie in April)
- Emi Takei (live-action Rurouni Kenshin, Ai to Makoto/For Love's Sake, Terraformars)
- Takumi Saitō (live-action Space Battleship Yamato [2010], Ace Attorney)
- Minami Hamabe (anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day live-action special's Menma)
- Yuina Kuroshima (live-action The Girl Who Leapt Through Time TV series)
- Yū Sawabe (from the "Haraichi" comedian duo)
- Kenichi Endō (live-action Cromartie High: The Movie, Crows Zero)
The film's story is set in both an anime and a live-action world, and will contain live-action scenes in addition to the anime scenes. The film will open in Japan on December 17. Child actor Ryōka Minamide will play main character Keita Amano in the live-action parts of the film. A new Yo-kai named Koala-nyan will be key to the plot of the double worlds.
Those who purchase tickets in advance beginning on July 16 will receive a "Jibanyan Real Version Yo-kai Dream Medal" that will be compatible with the Yōkai Watch 3 game.
TV Tokyo announcer Sayaka Suguru announced last December that the third Yio-kai Watch film would premiere in winter 2016. Level-5 president and CEO Akihiro Hino previously teased that the next film installment might be live-action. Hino is serving as the executive producer for the film and is also writing the film's scripts.
Eiga Yo-kai Watch: Enma Daioh to Itsutsu no Monogatari da Nyan! (Yo-kai Watch The Movie: Great King Enma and the 5 Stories, Meow!), the second film in the franchise, opened in Japan last December. The film topped the Japanese opening of Star Wars: The Force Awakens in attendance, although not in box office gross, during its first week. The film stayed at #2 for five straight weeks.
Source: Mainichi Shimbun's Mantan Web
