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1st Haikara-san ga Tōru Film's Clip Shows Benio, Shinobu's Meeting
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Media news site Natalie began streaming a clip from Benio and her fiancé Shinobu's first meeting. Benio climbs a tree to retrieve the kite of her friend Ranmaru, but falls when she sees Lieutenant Shinobu, with the lieutenant catching her before she falls to the ground.
The film's official website previously streamed a trailer for the film in September.
The first film, titled Gekijōban Haikara-san ga Tōru Zenpen - Benio, Hana no 17-sai, will open in Japan on Saturday, November 11. The second film is titled Gekijōban Anime Expo in July that it plans to screen the films in the United States with English subtitles.
The anime stars:
Mamoru Miyano as Benio's fiancé Shinobu Ijūin
Takahiro Sakurai as Tōsei Aoe, president of the "Jōdansha" publishing company where Benio works.
Onijima, Shinobu's subordinate and a sergeant who was dispatched to Siberia.
Yūki Kaji as Ranmaru Fujieda, a kabuki actor who plays female roles, and is the childhood friend of Benio.
Asami Seto as Tamaki Kitakōji, Benio's close friend.
Major Hanamura
Reiko Suzuki as Housekeeper
Kenta Miyake as Ushigorō
Shizuka Itou as Kichiji
debut in the first film.
Hayami is also performing the film's theme song "Yume no Hate made" (Until the End of the Dream). Toki no Tabibito -Time Stranger-) is composing and writing the lyrics for the theme song.
Nippon Animation is in charge of animation production.
The story is set in Tokyo in the Taishō era (1912-1926). The story follows Benio "Haikara-san" Hanamura, who lost her mother when she was very young and has been raised by her father, a high-ranking official in the Japanese army. As a result, she has grown into a tomboy — contrary to traditional Japanese notions of femininity, she studies kendo, drinks sake, dresses in often outlandish-looking Western fashions instead of the traditional kimono, and is not as interested in housework as she is in literature. She also rejects the idea of arranged marriages and believes in a woman's right to a career and to marry for love.
Haikara-san's best friends are the beautiful Tamaki, who is much more feminine than Haikara-san but equally interested in women's rights, and Ranmaru, a young man who was raised to play female roles in the kabuki theater and as a result has acquired very effeminate mannerisms. Haikara-san's betrothed is Shinobu Ijūin, a second lieutenant in the army.
The all-female perform a musical adaptation of the manga in October.
Source: Comic Natalie
