#Makoto Shinkai’s 5 Centimeters Per Second Inspires Live-Action Adaptation

Makoto Shinkai‘s melancholic anime film 5 Centimeters Per Second is getting adapted into a live-action Japanese movie starring Hokuto Matsumura of the SixTONES idol group. It will be released in fall 2025.

Yoshiyuki Okuyama (“Kick Back” music video), who made his film directorial debut with the upcoming anthology At The Bench, is directing the adaptation. Ayako Suzuki (Ai ni Ranbou) is penning the script.

5 Centimeters Per Second was released in 2007 and had a runtime of 63 minutes. The romance drama unfolds over three connected chapters, beginning in the 1990s and ending in the 21st century.

Netflix describes the premise as:

Shinkai has self-authored a novelization of 5 Centimeters Per Second. The anime also inspired a manga and the novel 5 Centimeters Per Second: One More Side, which depicts the viewpoint of Akari.

Another of Shinkai’s films, the 2016 phenomenon Your Name, has a Hollywood remake in the works. News of the remake first surfaced in 2017.

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Source: Comic Natalie