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A website opened on Sunday to announce that Makoto Shinkai's anime film 5 Centimeters Per Second will be adapted into a live-action film in fall 2025. SixTONES member Hokuto Matsumura (Sōta Munakata of Suzume) will star in the film.
Spoon is producing the film and TOHO will distribute. Yoshiyuki Okuyama is directing and Ayako Suzuki is writing the script.
5 Centimeters Per Second premiered in Japan in 2007. The film is divided into three separate segments. Crunchyroll previously released the anime on DVD in 2011 with the help of Bandai Entertainment. Discotek later re-released that version with new cover art. GKIDS later acquired the license in 2022 and released the film on Blu-ray Disc with Shout! Factory.
The anime focuses on Tono Takaki, telling the story through three stages of his life and depicting his weakening connection and relationship with a girl he once loved. In the first part, set in his middle school years, he tries to find his way to a final meeting with Shinohara Akari, a girl he befriended in elementary school. When Akari moves away, he realizes this will be his last meeting with her, and he braves the snow and circumstances to see her. The second part is set in Tono's high school life, when Tono is still thinking about Akari, unaware of the feelings of a girl named Kanae who has fallen in love with him. The third part is set in Tono's adulthood, where he struggles to maintain a job and relationships as he continues to find things that remind him of Akari.
Shinkai directed, wrote, and directed the film, and also served as sound director, producer, and art director. Tenmon composed the music.
Source: a> website, Natalie Comics
