The film will be released on February 18
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NHK reveals additional cast for Fune o Amu ~Watashi, Jisho Tsukurimasu~ (The Great Passage ~I Will Make a Dictionary~), a live-action series based on the Fune o Amu (The Great Passage) novel series by Shion Miura, on Wednesday.
The newly announced cast includes:
The series will premiere on NHK BS and BS Premium 4K on February 18 at 10:49 p.m. JST (8:49 a.m. EST).
The 10-episode series stars Yōjirō Noda as main character Mitsuya Majime, who is recruited into the dictionary editing department of a publishing company due to his love of words and reading, and Elaiza Ikeda as as Midori Kishibe, who is transferred from the fashion magazine editing department to the dictionary editing department. Renpei Tsukamoto and Manabu Asou will direct the film. Naomi Hiruta wrote the script and Face 2 fAKE composed the music.
© Haruko Kumota , Shion Miura, Kodansha
Miura’s novel was originally published in 2011 and inspired a live action film directed by Yuya Ishii that opened in Japan in 2013. The film won a Japanese Academy Award Version for Movie of the Year in 2013.
The story is about the employees at the Genbu Shobō publishing company. Araki, a veteran editor of the dictionary department, is looking for a successor as he nears retirement age. After Majime Mitsuya-a quiet salesman-meets Araki’s sociable and frivolous colleague Masashi Nishioka-Araki overhears their conversation and decides to recruit Majime into the department. The story follows “clumsy people” Majime and Masashi as they work together to compile a medium-sized Japanese dictionary titled “The Great Passage” (Daitokai).
Haruko Kumota (The Downfall Story: Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju) launched a manga adaptation of the novel in Kodansha’s ITAN magazine in June 2016. Kodansha published the first compilation book of the manga compiled in July 2017, second and final episode November 2017.
An anime adaptation using Kumota’s original character designs premiered on the Fuji TV network’s Noitamina timeslot in October 2016. Amazon Prime’s now-defunct anime Strike was given a paid streaming service streamed the anime in the United States.
Source: NHK, Mantan Web
by Mainichi Shimbun