An internet site opened on Sunday to announce that Makoto Shinkai‘s 5 Centimeters Per Second anime movie will get a live-action movie adaptation in fall 2025. SixTONES member Hokuto Matsumura (Suzume‘s Sōta Munakata) will star within the movie.
Spoon is producing the movie and TOHO will distribute. Yoshiyuki Okuyama is directing, and Ayako Suzuki is writing the script.
5 Centimeters Per Second opened in Japan in 2007. The movie is break up into three particular person segments. Crunchyroll beforehand launched the anime on DVD in 2011 with the assistance of Bandai Entertainment. Discotek later released a reissue of that model with new cowl artwork. GKIDS later acquired the license in 2022 and launched the movie on Blu-ray Disc with Shout! Factory.
The anime focuses on Tono Takaki, telling the story via three levels of his life and describing his weakening connection and relationship to a woman he as soon as beloved. Within the first half, set in his center college years, he tries to make his technique to one remaining assembly with Shinohara Akari, a woman who he befriended in elementary college. With Akari transferring away, he realizes this might be his remaining assembly along with her, and he braves the snow and the circumstances to see her. The second half is ready throughout Tono’s highschool life, when Tono remains to be enthusiastic about Akari, ignorant to the sentiments of a woman named Kanae who has fallen in love with him. The third half is ready throughout Tono’s maturity, the place he struggles to carry down a job and a relationship as he continues to search out issues that remind him about Akari.
Shinkai directed, wrote, and storyboarded the movie, and was additionally the sound director, producer, and artwork director. Tenmon composed the music.
Sources: 5 Centimeters Per Second live-action movie’s website, Comic Natalie
