The Colors Within, an upcoming movie by famed director Naoko Yamada, revealed a new visual for the IMAX release and a special video featuring the theme song “in the pocket” by Mr.Children. The movie premieres in Japan on August 30. Science SARU is animating.
The Colors Within movie had a world premiere at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival this June. GKIDS licensed it in North America with a winter release date. Reiko Yoshida is writing the script for the movie with Kensure Ushio as the music composer. Daisuke Richard is credited with the original character design, while Takashi Kojima is in charge of doing them for the movie. The main cast includes Sayu Suzukawa as Totsuko Higurashi, Akari Takaishi as Kimi Sakunaga, Taisei Kido as Rui Kagehira, and Yui Aragaki as Hiyoshiko.
The plot of the upcoming Kimi no Iro is described as:
“I can see people’s hearts in colors.”
Totsuko is a high school student at religious high chool in Nagasaki and she can see people’s emotions as colors.
Whether they’re happy colors, sad colors, peaceful colors, frightened colors… In order to not darken her loved ones’ colors, Totsuko is careful about keeping them all bright and happy.
One day, she mees a beautiful girl in a bookstore, who radiates all kinds of beautiful colors. Two of them end up forming a band with a boy who loves music.
These three sensitive people get together and begin to play the music of their youth.
The movie was initially slated to premiere in 2023 but was pushed back to this year.
Source: Official Website
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