The official website for the upcoming live-action film adaptation of Tsubasa Yamaguchi’s coming-of-age manga Blue Period released a 90-second main trailer today on May 28. It is also announced that the film’s theme song “NOISE” is provided by solo artist WurtS, and the song is featured in the trailer for the first time.
WurtS began experimentally releasing songs on YouTube and TikTok in 2020, and has gained immense popularity among young people, with over 400 million total streams. “Originally, ‘NOISE’ was born from a feeling of wanting to break out of my shell that I had when I first started my music career. When I received the offer from the Blue Period film, I felt a link between this feeling and Yatora’s state of mind, and started to write the song,” said WurtS.”I also had the time when what started as a ‘like’ somehow turned into an expression of myself, and I could no longer bear the weight of it. I realized that my ‘like’ has a tendency to involve the people around me over time. That is why it is troublesome and precious. In this work, I was moved by the way Yatora and his friends expressed themselves through trial and error and pursued their ‘likes.’ I hope you will listen to ‘NOISE’ as a support song for them.”
WurtS artist visual
The film’s poster visual has also been revealed, with the tagline: “Passion is the weapon.”
And eight additional cast members have been announced:
Hiroko Yakushimaru as Masako Saeki
Noriko Eguchi as Mayu Ohba
Hikari Ishida as Marie Yaguchi
Sena Nakajima as Maki Kuwana
Ikuho Akiya as Yuu Hashida
Katsumi Hyodo as Shin Koigakubo
Masaki Miura as Goto-sensei
Zun as Yukinobu Yaguchi
The Kentaro Hagiwara (Tokyo Ghoul live-action film)-directed film is set to open in Japan on August 9, 2024. Gordon Maeda, a son of Japanese martial art actor Sonny Chiba, is cats as the protagonist Yatora Yaguchi. The original Blue Period manga has been serialized since 2017 in Kodansha’s Monthly Afternoon seinen manga magazine, and a total of 15 collected volumes for the series have been published in Japan. The series has previously been adapted into a TV anime in 2021 and a stage-play in 2022. An English language version of the manga is also available from Kodansha USA, who describe the story as follows:
Winner of the 2020 Manga Taisho Grand Prize! A manga about the struggles and rewards of a life dedicated to art. The studious Yatora leaves a dry life of study and good manners behind for a new passion: painting. But untethering yourself from all your past expectations is dangerous as well as thrilling…
Source: “Blue Period” live-action film official website / Twitter ©Tsubasa Yamaguchi/KODANSHA ©2024 MOVIIE “Blue Period” Production Committee
