‘Your Lie in April’ in PH cinemas in December 7
Live-action of the film adaptation of the famous manga, Your Lie in April is scheduled to premiere on December 7, Wednesday, but stay tuned for further announcements on what cinema houses will it film.
Your Lie in April (Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso) is a theatrical film based on the highly-popular manga series by Naoshi Arakawa. The lead cast of the movie are Kento Yamazaki (“Kyouya Sata”, Wolf Girl and Black Prince live-action movie) as Kosei Arima and Suzu Hirose (“Chihaya Ayase”, Chihayafuru live-action movies) as “Kaori Miyazono”.
The manga also has an anime adaptation, which was aired in the Philippines on Filipino-language anime channel HEROtv last April. The film is directed by Takehiko Shinjo, who also directed the 2011 movie adaptation of Paradise Kiss, while screenplay was made by Yukari Tatsui.
The movie has already premiered in Japanese cinemas last September 10, which was in third place on its opening weekend. It earned ¥244,602,900 (about PHP114 million) in gross with 200,036 tickets sold.
Sources: Anime Pilipinas, Anime PH Project
