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Live-Action Look Back Film Screens in Competition at Venice Int'l Film Fest
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The Venice International Film Festival will take place from September 2-12 in Venice Lido, Italy.
The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) will screen the film's North American premiere. TIFF will take place on September 10-20. The festival will reveal its release schedule on August 11.
The film opens on September 11 in Japan.
GKIDS will release the film in theaters in 2026 in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., and Ireland.
Hirokazu Kore-eda (Shoplifters, Our Little Sister, Air Doll) is directing and editing the film, and is also writing the screenplay. Yūta Bandō (BELLE, Kaiju No. 8, also known as Taku Matsushiba) is composing the music.
The staff also includes:
- Photography: Senzo Ueno
- Lighting: Masachio Nishida
- Sound: Kazuhiko Tomita
- Art Direction: Shinsuke Kojima
- Costume Design: Sachiko Ito
- Hair and Makeup Supervision: Katsuhiko Yūmi
- Assistant Director: Kensei Nakayama
- Scripter: Ryōko Taguchi
- Casting: Toshie Tabata, Yōko Yamashita
- VFX Supervisor: Rinto Ueda
- Line Producer: Shinichi Muraoka
The 79th Cannes International Film Festival showcased the film on May 15.
The anime film of Fujimoto's "Look Back" one-shot manga opened in theaters in Japan in June 2024. It ranked at #2 in terms of ticket sales (but #1 in weekend earnings) in its opening weekend. The film sold 135,000 tickets and earned 227 million (about US$1.40 million) in its first three days.
GKIDS screened the film in October 2024 in North America. The film earned US$688,253 at the U.S. box office in its opening weekend.
Fujimoto debuted the one-shot manga on Shueisha's Shonen Jump+ in July 2021. The manga had over 2.5 million views on its first day. Viz Media and MANGA Plus launched the manga digitally in English. Viz Media published the manga in print in September 2022. The company describes the story:
The overly confident Fujino and the shut-in Kyomoto couldn't be more different, but a love of drawing manga brings these two small-town girls together. A poignant story of growing up and moving forward that only Tatsuki Fujimoto, the creator of Chainsaw Man, could have crafted.
Fujimoto (Fire Punch) debuted the Chainsaw Man manga in Weekly Shonen Jump in December 2018 and ended its "first part," the "Kōan" (Public Safety) arc, in December 2020. The manga's second part, titled "Gakkō-hen" (School Arc), started on Shueisha's Shonen Jump+ service in July 2022, and it ended on March 24 (March 25 in Japan).
Sources: Venice Film Festival, Variety (Nick Vivarelli, Ellise Shafer)
