Drowning Love

In the organizer's words:

溺れるナイフ Oboreru naifu

Director: YAMATO Yûki
2016, 111 minutes, OmeU, Blu-ray

The film is based on the bestselling girls' manga of the same name(Shôjo Manga), which was written and drawn by award-winning manga artist George Asakura. It appeared as a series from mid-October to mid-December 2013 in Bessatsu Friend, a magazine for shôjo manga, and was subsequently published in 17 individual volumes. In Tokyo, Mochizuki Natsume was a teenage fashion model for a magazine, but now she has moved to the countryside in her father's hometown to help her grandfather. She is frustrated and bored with her new surroundings until she meets Hasegawa Kôichirô, the attractive but egotistical descendant of a family of Shintô priests. A not-so-easy romance develops between the two and Natsume tries to find her place in life.

Film series
Manga on the big screen - Japanese comic adaptations

It is not only the printed editions of manga that have long enjoyed cult status, but their film adaptations are also enthusiastically received by many fans. To accompany the exhibition Manga Hokusai Manga: The Famous Master's Sketchbooks from the Perspective of Contemporary Japanese Comics, we are presenting five live-action films and one anime based on manga.

The immense variety of manga genres is also reflected in the film adaptations. We start with Kûki ningyô by master director Koreeda Hirokazu, which deals with the themes of isolation and loneliness in urban life in an extraordinary way. The manga series of the same name by Gôda Yoshi'ie, which appeared in a magazine for a predominantly young adult male readership(Seinen Manga), served as a source of inspiration. This was followed by film adaptations of two bestselling girls' manga(Shôjo Manga) by award-winning illustrators George Asakura and Andô Yuki. The animated film about a quirky music band is also outstanding due to its rotoscoping production technique. Finally, a thriller and the film adaptation of a boys' love manga(Bôizu rabu Manga) will also appeal to lovers of suspense and mystery.

Price information:

Admission free