A Few Moments of Cheers Anime Film, Solitary Gourmet Live-Action Film Screen at Tokyo Int’l Film Fest

September 23, 2024

The employees for screenwriter Jukki Hanada, music video manufacturing group Hurray!, and 100Studio‘s authentic anime movie A Few Moments of Cheers (Sūfunkan no Yell o) introduced on Friday that the movie will display on the thirty seventh Tokyo Worldwide Movie Pageant (TIFF), which runs from October 28 to November 6. The movie will display within the competition’s “Animation Choice.”

The Tokyo Worldwide Movie Pageant moreover introduced its “Gala Choice” lineup on Friday, which reveals that the choice will embody the live-action film of Masayuki Kusumi and Jiro Taniguchi‘s Kodoku no Gourmet (Solitary Connoisseur) manga. The trailer beneath titles the movie The Gourmand: The Solitary Connoisseur.

The thirty seventh Tokyo Worldwide Movie Pageant trailer beneath additionally previews the “Animation Choice” class, which additionally lists movies resembling The Colors Within, Ghost Cat Anzu, Look Back, Make a Girl, Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the Window, Kurayukaba, and a fiftieth anniversary 4K remaster screening of Space Battleship Yamato, amongst others.

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A Few Moments of Cheers opened in Japan on June 14.

The movie’s story begins when a excessive schooler who makes music movies meets a trainer who has given up on music. Beginner music video creator Asaya Kanata sees trainer and musician Yu Orie busking on the road, and decides to make a music video of her music.

Rock band Frederic performs the movie’s theme music “Cyan.”

Jukki Hanada penned the movie’s story and script. Hanada is a veteran anime screenwriter who has written for a lot of anime about musicians, together with Kyoto Animation‘s Sound! Euphonium, the unique Love Live! collection, in addition to Love Live! Sunshine!! and Love Live! Superstar!!, and in addition Toei Animation‘s newest authentic anime Girls Band Cry.

Music video creator trio Hurray! collaborated with 100Studio to supply the anime. Hurray! is probably greatest identified for creating music movies for the yorushika band. The group’s POPREQ directed the movie, with Ohajiki as assistant director, and Magotsuki because the artwork designer. Noriyoshi Konuma was the sound director, and Tomoyuki Kono was in command of music. Vocaloid scene music producer Vivi composed the songs that seem within the movie.