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Live-Action High School Family Film Clip Shows Festival Concert
The live-action film of Ryo Nakama's High School Family: Kokosei Kazoku began streaming a clip on its official website on Tuesday.
Reporting from 1 source: Anime News Network.
Why it matters
The opening sits at January 8 rather than the fall 2026 window the film was first planned for, and the material released so far leads with its music: an original song in the festival clip and Yuzu on the theme.
Key Facts
- The official website for the live-action High School Family: Kokosei Kazoku film began streaming a clip on Tuesday.
- The clip shows the Ietani family performing a concert at a school cultural festival and features the original song "Kizuna."
- Toichiro Ruto directs the film from a script by Europe Kikaku's Makoto Ueda.
- Yuzu performs the film's theme song, "Kore mo Seishun da" (This is Also Youth).
- The film opens in Japan on January 8, a delay from the originally planned fall 2026 opening.
The clip shows the Ietani family playing a concert at their school's cultural festival and carries the original song "Kizuna." Shingo Katori and Riisa Naka play the parents, with Yuno Nagao and Jun Saito as the younger sister and eldest son. Toichiro Ruto directs. The film opens in Japan on January 8.
The film had been planned for fall 2026 and now opens on January 8. Yuzu performs the theme song, "Kore mo Seishun da" (This is Also Youth), while the concert clip features the original song "Kizuna." Makoto Ueda of Europe Kikaku wrote the screenplay.
Nakama's manga ran in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump from September 2020 to February 2023. Shueisha published the 11th and final compiled volume in July 2023, and Viz Media and MANGA Plus both publish the series in English digitally, with Viz also releasing compiled volumes. Before High School Family, Nakama ran Isobe Isobee Monogatari in the same magazine from October 2013 to October 2017; that manga led to two net anime series and a stage play.
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