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Indonesia's Japanese Film Festival to Screen Live-Action ReLIFE Film
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
The Japanese Film Festival 2017 event in Indonesia announced on Monday that it will screen the live-action film adaptation of Yayoiso's ReLIFE manga.
The film opened in Japan on April 15, and ranked #8 in its opening weekend.
The original manga's story revolves around Arata Kaizaki, an unemployed, single 27-year-old who has just been cut off from his parents' financial support. Unable to find a job due to his leaving his previous employer within three months, he is stuck. One night after drinking with a high school friend, Arata meets Ryō Yoake, a man who offers Arata pills to turn him back into a 17-year-old so he can redo his life. After agreeing to the experiment, Arata joins a high school class, and meets Chizuru Hishiro, a socially awkward silent beauty who yearns to have friends. Through connecting with her and other classmates, Arata must find what he lacks to live a happy life in the real world within a one-year time limit. The film has an original ending separate from the manga.
The film stars Taishi Nakagawa, Mahiro Takasugi, Elaiza Ikeda, Sae Okazaki, and Yudai Chiba. Takeshi Furusawa (live-action Another, Clover) directed the film.
Yayoiso began her manga on the Comico free manga app in 2013, and it was green-lit for physical publication in 2014. Taibundo released the manga's seventh compiled volume in February 2017, and Crunchyroll is releasing the manga in English digitally. Katalis Pustaka is also releasing the manga physically in Indonesia.
The manga inspired an anime adaptation last year. All the episodes debuted at once on the Comico app before airing on television, and Crunchyroll streamed all 13 episodes at once worldwide except in Japan in July 2016. Kenshō Ono starred in the anime as Arata Kaizaki and reprised his role in a stage play adaptation in September 2016. The anime will get a four-episode finale in March 2018.
The Japanese Film Festival 2017 event will take place in Denpasar, Jakarta, Makassar, and Yogyakarta. The event has not yet revealed a schedule.
[Via Kaori Nusantara]
