Mana's Japanese Movies Blog

Yowamushi Pedal called "Yowapeda" is a live-action movie based on the manga of the same name. This movie was released on August 14, 2020. The theme song is "Key of Heart" sung by King&Prince. The main character is Sakamichi Onoda acted by Ren Nagase. He has black hair and bangs that don't reach his eyebrows. He is a high school student who doesn't like exercise and has no friends, and he commutes from Chiba to Akihabara on a mamachari. He wanted to join the long-awaited anime research club, but he was shocked when he learned that the club was on hiatus. Then, a classmate who saw him riding a bicycle asked him to compete in a race and he felt the joy of riding a bicycle. After that he joined the cycling club. He showed an unexpected talent as a cyclist and was chosen as a regular member. This movie is about how he challenges the race to participate in the Inter-high with his first "friends". When I watched this movie, I wanted to tell Onoda to d...

Chinmoku no Parade means "Parade of Silence", in Japanese. This movie was released on September 16, 2022, so this is a recent movie. The theme song is "Hitotsuboshi" which was sung by Ko Shibasaki and was written by Masaharu Fukuyama. This is the third work in the Galileo series. There are three main characters in this series. The first is "Manabu Yukawa" acted by Masaharu Fukuyama. The second is "Kaoru Utsumi" acted by Ko Shibasaki. The third is "Shunpei Kusanagi" acted by Kazuki Kitamura. And this time, the important character in the movie of "Chinmoku no Parade" is "Saori Namiki". The story starts, when a missing female student named Saori was found dead after several years. The suspect was thought to be Mr. Hasunuma, who was once arrested for murder but was released while maintaining complete silence. On the Parade day of a summer festival, Mr. Hasunuma was killed. The suspects are people who loved Saori, such as...