The original animated feature film "The Last Blossom," directed by Kinoshita Mugi, who worked on the popular 2021 TV anime "Odd Taxi," and manga artist and screenwriter Konomoto Kazuya, will be released on October 10th, and it has been announced that Natsuki Hanae will be appearing in the film. He plays Kensuke, the son of Nagata Nana, the partner of protagonist Akutsu Minoru. Hanae played the main character Odogawa in "Odd Taxi," and was approached by director Kinoshita to play Kensuke.
Hanae plays Kensuke, who drives Nana in the second half of the story, and revealed that before the recording, the director told him, "I want to convey the feeling that they've been together for a long time, as if it were natural in their everyday conversations." Looking back, he said that he had a lot of fun recording the film, interacting with Miyazaki Yoshiko, who plays the present-day Nana. Regarding his appearance in the film, he commented, "I'm truly honored to be able to join this production team again. I'm very happy that ' The Last Blossom ,' which is filled with so much passion and attention to detail, will be able to be seen in the theater. I hope you'll come to the theater and enjoy it."
It was also announced that a screening with a stage greeting featuring Hanae, Soma Saito , and director Kinoshita, who starred in "Odd Taxi" and " The Last Blossom ," will be held at Shinjuku Wald 9 (Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo) on October 22nd.
The story is about an elderly man serving a life sentence who is about to die alone in his cell, when a mysterious impregnated The Last Blossom, who can speak human language, tells him, "You've had a terrible life," and through this "conversation" he begins to reflect on his past... The story depicts the dramatic reversal that a dying yakuza brings about.
Director Kinoshita will be in charge of character design, while Konomoto will be writing the original story and screenplay. The film will be produced by CLAP, the studio behind "Pompo the Movie Lover" and "Tunnel into Summer, Exit to Goodbye." Actors Kobayashi Kaoru and Junki Tozuka will co-star, playing the past and present of protagonist Akutsu Minoru, respectively. Hikari Mitsushima and Miyazaki Yoshiko will play Akutsu's partner Nagata Nana, and Pierre Taki will play The Last Blossom, a man Akutsu meets who can speak human language.
