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Manga author Oshikiri Rensuke’s Liverleaf is readying a theatrical release on April 7, and the first official trailer is now online. T-Joy is shepherding its Japan release with Nikkatsu representing the film internationally and so time will tell how long before we hear back on Litchi Hikari Club helmer Naito Eisuke’s efforts. “In a snow-covered village, my family was burned to death…” Due to her father’s work, junior high school student Haruka Nozaki has had to move with her family to a rural town in Northern Japan. Transferred into a local school, she is treated as an outcast by the other students. Moreover, class bullies have turned her life into a living hell. Haruka’s only friend is Mitsuru Aiba, another transfer student. With him as her mental anchor, she does her best to tolerate the harassment that only seems to escalate as time goes by. One day Haruka and Mitsuru […]

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The artwork for Oshikiri Rensuke’s 2007 manga series, Liverleaf, is something really striking; I’ve only seen a few images but given the narrative, I get the overall tone and idea behind it and with that, the jury remains out on whether or not that goes for Litchi Hikari Club helmer Naito Eisuke whose latest adaptation of the manga releases on April 7 in Japan. The teaser certainly looks and feels promising for its audience, bearing the gripping, haunting and violent tone it delivers. Tadano Miako, who debuted in 2006 with Three Year Delivery, adapts Oshikiri’s work telling of a newly-arrived school transfer – bullied by her peers, psychologically tormented and eager to get even with the people responsible for the fire that killed the parents and injured the younger sister of her only friend. Saki (2016) and series drama Hokuto co-star Yamada Anna makes her second turn on the big […]

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