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March Comes In Like a Lion (2017)
Directed by Keishi Otomo
Drama · 2h 18m
Rei Kiriyama is a 17-years-old shogi (Japanese chess) player. He debuted as a professional shogi player when he was in middle school. He lives by himself in Tokyo, because his parents and younger sister died in an traffic accident when he was little. One day, Rei Kiriyama meets three sisters who are his neighbors. The three sisters are Akari Kawamoto, Hinata Kawamoto and Momo Kawamoto. This is his first meeting with someone outside of the shogi world in many years. Having meals with the Kawamoto family brings warm feelings to Rei Kiriyama. As Rei Kiriyama continues his shogi career, his interactions with his neighbors allows him to grow as a shogi player and as a person.
Cast
Ryunosuke Kamiki
Rei Kiriyama
Kasumi Arimura
Kyoko Koda
Kana Kurashina
Akari Kawamoto
Shota Sometani
Harunobu Nikaido
Kaya Kiyohara
Hinata Kawamoto
Kuranosuke Sasaki
Kai Shimada
Ryo Kase
Toji Soya
Gin Maeda
Someji Kawamoto
Issey Takahashi
Takashi Hayashida
Hideaki Ito
Masamune Goto
Etsushi Toyokawa
Sachika Koda
Ryo Iwamatsu
Takanori Jinguji
Crew
- Director
- Keishi Otomo
- Writer
- Ryohei Watanabe, Keishi Otomo, Yuko Iwashita
- Director of Photography
- Hideo Yamamoto
- Original Music Composer
- Yugo Kanno
- Editor
- Ryo Hayano
- Producer
- Masayuki Tanishima, Fumie Takeuchi, Keichiiro Moriya
Details
- Original title
- 3月のライオン 前編
- Release date
- 2017-03-18
- Runtime
- 2h 18m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- JA
- Spoken languages
- Japanese
- Countries
- Japan
- Production
- Asmik Ace, TOHO, Hakusensha, AMUSE, Aniplex, The Asahi Shimbun, KDDI, dentsu, Robot Communications, Mainichi Shimbun, GYAO, Hulu Japan, jeki