Minami Hamabe and Ren Meguro co-star in the film "Hodonaku, Owakaredesu" teaser visual released

A teaser visual and stills have been released for the film " Hodonaku, Owakaredesu " (directed by Miki Takahiro), starring actress Hamabe Minami and popular group Snow Man Ren Meguro in their first co-starring role. The release date has been set for February 6, 2026.

The series is based on Amane Nagatsuki's debut novel, " Hodonaku, Owakaredesu" (Shogakukan Bunko), which won the Grand Prize at the Shogakukan Bunko Novel Award and has sold over 400,000 copies. The story is billed as a human drama about a heroine who works as an intern at a funeral company and teams up with a strict funeral planner to plan the "best funeral possible."

A funeral planner is someone who proposes a funeral that suits the deceased based on the wishes of the bereaved family and handles all the arrangements and progress (funeral arrangements, venue setup, ceremony progress, etc.). Hamabe plays Shimizu Misora, a new funeral planner who joined the funeral company Bando Kaikan as an intern after failing all her job hunting attempts, while Meguro plays Urushibara Reiji, a funeral planner who scouts Misora and gives her strict guidance.

The teaser visual, which is being displayed in movie theaters across the country (excluding some theaters), shows Misora and Urushibara gazing into the distant sky with calm expressions against a beautiful landscape filled with dandelions, whose flower language means "farewell" and "hope."

Two stills have been released, both capturing the two working hard every day as funeral planners. In contrast to Urushibara's rough treatment of Misora, he is more sincere than anyone else when it comes to the bereaved family and the deceased, and the shot shows him at work as a mortician, performing various procedures such as bathing the body, applying makeup, and changing into funeral attire before placing the body in the coffin. The shot of Misora's calm expression conveys her personality as she is almost discouraged by Urushibara's strict instructions, but still faces the bereaved family and the deceased with all their various thoughts and feelings in a sincere and desperate manner.