While the trend is towards live-action adaptations of Japanese anime, we learn that this classic of Japanese animated cinema will soon be adapted. We tell you everything!
A masterpiece of Japanese cinema
Japanese animation is enjoying growing success around the world. While Netflix has made a specialty of adapting works like One Piece by Eiichiro Oda – we recently learned the name of the actor who will play the pirate captain Crocodile in the sequel to the series -, The public seems to be increasingly placing its trust in these projects, which a few years ago aroused a mistrust inherited from the disastrous Dragon Ball Evolution. Many works will soon be adapted, starting with Naruto by Masashi Kishimoto.
We learned today that the movie 5 centimeters per second Makoto Shinkai’s 2007 novel will also be getting a live-action adaptation.Produced by Spoon Studio and Toho (who are also responsible for the films Godzilla), the film will be directed by Yoshiyuki Okuyama, while the screenplay has been entrusted to Ayako Suzuki. While the film’s cast has already been chosen, The only name revealed to the public is that of Hokuto Matsumura, who fans of Makoto Shinkai know in particular because he lent his voice to the character of Souta Munakata. in the filmmaker’s latest masterpiece, Suzume (2022).
5 centimeters per second is Makoto Shinkai’s second animated feature film. It tells the story of three periods in the life of a young boy named Takaki Tōno, between 1990 and 2008. It follows the story of friendship and thwarted love between two childhood friends. Very poetic, the film has airs of Past Livesa romantic drama directed by Korean-Canadian filmmaker Celine Song and produced by A24, starring Greta Lee and Teo Yoo.
This new film is therefore the second live-action adaptation project of a Makoto Shinkai film after Your Name (2016), which experienced a difficult production, with numerous rewrites and several line-up changes. However, Whether we are happy about these projects or not, they say a lot about Makoto Shinkai’s place in Japanese animation cinema today.i. Considered by many specialists as Hayao Miyazaki’s most worthy heirto whom he paid a vibrant tribute in The Journey to Agartha (2011), three of his films entered the top 20 highest-grossing films on Japanese soil: Your Name (2016) in fifth place, Suzume (2022) at the sixteenth and Children of Time (2019) at the seventeenth.
While some animated films have managed to establish themselves in this ranking, like One Piece: Red by Gorō Taniguchi (2022), Detective Conan: The Million Dollar Star (2024), Demon Slayer: Infinity Mugen Train by Haruo Sotozaki (2020) or the remarkable The First Slam Dunk de Takehiko Inoue (2022), Makoto Shinkai is the only filmmaker, along with Hayao Miyazaki, whose several films are included in this very exclusive club.. A great performance!
Source: hitek.fr
