GKIDS Sets December 30 North American Screening for Live-Action Look Back
The live-action adaptation of Tatsuki Fujimoto's one-shot gets a North American release through GKIDS, the same distributor that handled the 2024 anime film, putting both versions of the story in front of the same audience.
Reporting from 1 source: Anime News Network.
GKIDS will screen the live-action Look Back film in select North American theaters on December 30, with a wider release on January 15. The film opened in Japan on September 11 at #5 and earned 144,146,120 yen in its first three days. Hirokazu Kore-eda directed, edited, and wrote the screenplay, with Aju Makita and Natsuki Deguchi in the lead roles.
Hirokazu Kore-eda directed, edited, and wrote the screenplay. Aju Makita plays Kyomoto and Natsuki Deguchi plays Fujino. The film screened at the 79th Cannes International Film Festival on May 15 and at the London Film Festival in October, and it won the UNIMED student jury's UNIMED award in September. GKIDS will release the film in theaters in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., and Ireland.
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