LOVE ME, LOVE ME NOT (Live Action) Press Notes and Photos From Toho
Source: Toho Co., Ltd.
Official Site: furifura-movie.jp (Japan)
A SCIFI JAPAN EXCLUSIVE
Toho Co., Ltd. has provided SciFi Japan with information and high-res photo from the new movie LOVE ME, LOVE ME NOT (思い、思われ、ふり、ふられ, Omoi, Omoware, Furi, Furare). This feature film sequel to STROBE EDGE (ストロボ・エッジ, Sutorobo Ejji) and BLUE SPRING RIDE (アオハライド, Aoharaido, 2014) completes the live-action adaptations of Io Sakisaka’s same-named girls’ comic trilogy. The movie is directed by romance film maestro Takahiro Miki (YELL FOR THE BLUE SKY, MY TOMORROW, YOUR YESTERDAY, FORTUNA’S EYE).
LOVE ME, LOVE ME NOT will open in Japanese cinemas on August 14th. An anime film adaptation will be released by Toho in September.
STORY
Akari (Minami Hamabe), Rio (Takumi Kitamura), Yuna (Riko Fukumoto) and Kazuomi (Eiji Akaso) are all in their first year at the same high school and live in the same apartment building. Rio can’t ask Akari out since their parents’ marriage has turned them into brother and sister, and the others have their own secret crushes too. But, one of them makes a declaration of love, which creates a complex tangle of emotions.
CREDITS
Japanese Theatrical Release: August 14, 2020 (Nationwide Roadshow)
Running Time: 125 Minutes
Cast
Akari Yamamoto: Minami Hamabe
Rio Yamamoto: Takumi Kitamura
Yuna Ichihae: Riko Fukumoto
Kazuomi Inoue: Eiji Akaso
Kaisei Kamimura
Kaito Mifune
Yuki Furukawa
Naho Toda
Staff
Director: Takahiro Miki
Original Story: Love Me, Love Me Not by Io Sakisaka (published by Shueisha Bessatsu Margaret Comics)
Screenplay: Yoko Yonaiyama, Takahiro Miki
Producers: Takahiro Kawada, Kazuaki Kishida
Production Company: Love Me, Love Me Not (Live-Action) Film Partners (Toho Hakuhodo DY music & pictures, Shueisha, STARDUST HD, JR East Japan Marketing & Communications, Yomiuri Telecasting, NIPPON SHUPPAN HANBAI, KDDI, Lawson Entertainment, Hikari-TV, MOVIC, MARUI GROUP, Tokyo Metropolitan Television, THE YOMIURI SHIMBUN, GYAO)
Distributor: Toho
World Sales: Toho
©2020 Love Me, Love Me Not (Live-Action) Film Partners ©I.Sakisaka/Shueisha
About Toho Company. Ltd.
Founded in 1932, Toho Co., Ltd. is one of the leading entertainment conglomerates in Japan. Toho is best known worldwide as the producer of the Godzilla films, as well as most of the films by the world-renowned director, Akira Kurosawa. Besides film production, Toho also distributes Japanese films (earning the highest box office receipts for decades in Japan) as well as foreign films through its subsidiary, owns first class movie theaters throughout Japan, produces legitimate plays and musicals, and has more than 100 entertainment-related subsidiaries.
