Otona Najimi Live-action Film Teaser Trailer Depicts Two Childhood Friends’ Tantalizing Love Story
The official website for the forthcoming live-action film adaptation of Aya Nakahara‘s (Love Com, aka Lovely Complex) romantic comedy manga Otona Najimi has posted a 30-second teaser trailer.
RELATED: Love Com Author Aya Nakahara’s Otona Najimi Manga Gets Live-action Film in May 2023
Hiroto Takahashi, who worked on a live action film adaptation of Risa Konno’s Mune ga Naru no wa Kimi no Sei sjoujo manga in 2021, serves as director on a screenplay by Erika Yoshida (BOCCHI THE ROCK! series composition writer). Fashion model/actress Rinka Kumada is cast as the main heroine Kaede Kagaya, while Mizuki Inoue (Johnny&Associates’ boy idol group HiHi Jets member) plays her love interest Haru Aoyama. The film is set to be released in Japan on May 12, 2023. Shooting has already been completed.
Poster visual inspired by the manga’s 1st volume cover with a tagline “One-sided love for each other for twenty years?”:
Manga tankobon 1st volume cover:
The original manga was serialized in Shueisha’s monthly josei manga magazine Cocohana from 2019 to 2021, then compiled in eight tankobon volumes. The publisher describes its synopsis as below:
Kaede Kagaya and Haru Aoyama have lived next door and have known each other since childhood. They started living alone, but due to various reasons, they are now living next to each other again. Kaede has always liked Haru, but nothing has happened. In order to give up her feeling toward Haru, Kaede starts dating the manager of a bento store, but to her surprise, he is a married man! She is pushed into a corner, but Haru helped her out and she avoids getting bogged down. Haru also helps her deal with the large amount of Chinese cabbage he ordered by mistake… Haru is currently unemployed after a fight with his boss over a co-worker’s sexual harassment. Kaede loves him even in that situation, but where is her one-sided love going…?
❥❥❥
映画『#おとななじみ』
特報&ポスター解禁????????
❥❥❥ハルと楓のムズキュンが詰まった
特報とポスターが到着❣️“おさななじみ”
2人の”ガオーポーズ”????????でも実は、近くて遠い両片想い中で…????
????https://t.co/H9f4ocdE7E#井上瑞稀 #久間田琳加 #萩原利久 #浅川梨奈 pic.twitter.com/5TwhlLJp3s
— 映画『おとななじみ』公式 (@otonanajimi) November 27, 2022
Source: “Otona Najimi” live-action film official website / Twitter
©Aya Nakahara, SHUEISHA ©2023 “Otona Najimi” Production Committee
