One of the largest anime conventions in the United States, NJ AnimeNEXT, will present the U.S. premiere of the Japanese film, “Teenage Ennui (Hokago Lost),” at the Main Video of the DoubleTree by Hilton Somerset Hotel and Conference Center at 2:15pm on Saturday, the 13th of June, 2015.
This film based on a Japanese manga comic, “Worldgaze Clips.”
A high school girl peers into the end of the world.
A Japanese manage piece with a unique world-view and delicate psychological portrayal – a best seller.
◆ Title: TEENAGE ENNUI
◆ Original: WorldGaze Clips（KADOKAWA）Ran Igarashi
◆ Episode Titles (Director ＆ script)
1 LITTLE TRIP (Chihiro AMANO)
2 DOODLE IDOL (Ai NAGURA)
3 OVERTONE (Akiko OOKU)
◆ (c) 2014 Ran Igarashi・KADOKAWA／「World Gaze Clips」partners
◆ STAFF
Executive Producer: Koji Matsumoto
Producer: Kiyotaka Tanaka, Yoshitaka Yano
◆ CAST
Episode 1 Honoka MIKI, Kaho TAKASIMA
Episode 2 Sumire SATO, YumaOHISHI, Erina NAKAYAMA
Episode 3 Mayu MATSUOKA, Aoi KOIZUMI
TEENAGE ENNUI (Overview)
> Background
It is about a public high school (in around Saitama Prefecture), which is confirmed to be closed as from next year. Only students left at the school was the third year students and it was their last year of the high school education. (There were no students in their 1st and 2nd year). Extremely quiet classrooms, corridors and club rooms etc. The very last summer holiday has ended and 2nd semester has begun. One day in the beginning of the autumn season, there were talks of cultural festival as the very last school event…
> Episode 1 “LITTLE TRIP”
It is a story about two students: Yuuki play truant on daily basis and taking depressant medication. Ayako is a class leader and in the same class as Yuuki. She appears to be a serious student at first glance. Ayako is actually a victim of DV from her parents and routinely get bullied by a particular group at the school. Listening to favorite music is the only activity providing her with mental support. Yuuki has witnessed such occurrence and approached Ayako, inviting her to the roof top and said “We can just run away”.
They have carried out a petite run away from home, looking to find unforeseeable tomorrow. What have they found each by running away from day to day school life?
>Episode 2 “DOODLE IDOL”
A former art club member, Satomi, was skillful enough to win a prize in the paining contest. This has caused a conflict with a friend, Ogino, as a result and completely stopped paining since then. Satomi has been chosen to draw a main exhibit paining for the cultural festival and consulted with a former classmate, Furuya (dropped out of the school) as Ogino observing from the distance and each of their feeling crossing out. What are the decisions made by three of them as the festival approached?
>Episode 3 “OVERTONE”
It is nearly the time for the cultural festival. Rika Hashimoto, known for good handwriting, keeps drawing doodles in the school building as if being released from something. A school teacher witnessed her writings in the corridor and Rika was forced to draw a sign post for the cultural festival. One day, Rika attended the festival committee room and came across Yu Kuroi, who appreciates the distance. Kuroi has been recording everyday sounds on daily basis by using a smart phone, which she has taken keen interest in recently.
Triggered by Rika’s behavior for no particular reasons, two of them spent a week together until Yu was due to leave for studying abroad. At the school building after school, they collected sounds at various places. The day has come to depart from each other. What was the tune which they created by repeating hide and seek?
A red balloon was flying far away when you happened to look up in the sky.
“Drawn vividly about modern Japanese, real high school girls, their cool life style, which has jumped out of Japanese ‘MANGA’ comics!”
[Date] Saturday, June 13, 2015
[Time] 2:15PM
[Venue] Main Video
DoubleTree by Hilton Somerset Hotel and Conference Center
[Address] 200 Atrium Drive, Somerset, New Jersey, 08873-4197
[Phone] (732) 469-2600
[Inquiries] contact(at)marcreation.com
[Directors]
Chihiro Amano – Born in 1982.”Cast the die!””Snipping girl” won over the PFF award. “Confession of the Figaro ” won the Grand prix award as well as audience award at the Shitamachi comedy film festival.
Ai Nagura was born in 1976 in the Shizuoka prefecture, in Japan. After graduating from university, she worked as an office worker for five years. In 2005, she entered the “Film School of Tokyo”, she learned filmmaking. Then, she has worked as the staff member mainly on independent movies. In 2012, she participated in “Momomatsuri”, and she made her first movie “Reunion”. “Momomatsuri” is an all-female group who makes independent films and shows these films by themselves. This work is her first commercial movie.
Akiko Ooku was born in 1968 in Yokohama city, in the Kanagawa prefecture. After graduating from the “Meiji University”, she first became a comedian. While studying in the “Film School of Tokyo” in 1997, she learned filmmaking from such spirited directors as Kiyoshi Kurosawa (“Tokyo Sonata”) and Shunji Aoyama (“Eureka”), starting to concentrate on the art of directing. While still a student, she made her first movie, “Igaito shinanai”. She then went on to write and direct “Tokyo Serendipity” in 2007, starring Yui Arakagi, Ryûhei Matsuda and Rinko Kikuchi. In 2012, she directed “Tokyo Nameless Girl’s Story”, starring Mitsuki Tanimura, as well as the horror TV series “Tales of terror from Tokyo and all over Japan : Covering the 100 tales”. In 2013, she directed “I’m home, Jacqueline” is a heart-warming short-film of the fantasy genre. The protagonist’s role Satoru is played by Shôta Sometani who, along with Fumi Nikaidô, received the “Marcello Mastroianni Award” (Best new young actor and actress) at the Venice International Film Festival for their roles in “Himizu”. Her most recent work is the 2013 movie “Monster”, an adaptation of best-selling author Naoki Hyakuta (writer of “The Eternal Zero” amongst others). “Monster” deals with the themes of the importance of the human physical appearance, ugliness and beauty, as well as the taboo of plastic surgery.
[Cast]
– Honoka MIKI
Born on 7 March 1997
2009 Debuted as an exclusive model for the magazine Love berry.
2010 Landed her first movie role in Maria-sama ga Miteiru.
2013 Starred in a TV drama for the first time, playing a lead role in Fuji TV Two’s Itazurana Kiss – Love in Tokyo.
2014 Starred in Itazurana Kiss 2.
Also starred in 3 as yet unreleased movies.
Appears in a wide range of TV dramas, movies, and commercials.
Currently contracted as a model to Non-No.
– Sumire SATO
Born on 20 Novemver 1993
2004 Made her musical debut in Coco Smile.
2006 Joined AKB48.
2009 Promoted to AKB48 regular member status.
2012 Starred in the movie Ultraman Saga, and the musical Peter Pan
2013 Appointed to the fashion brand Vanquish’s Vanquish Venus.
2014 Move to SKE48 announced at AKB Group Dai Sokaku Matsuri.
Has continued to perform as an actress in addition to her roles in AKB48 and SKE48.
– Mayu MATSUOKA
Born on 16 february 1995
2008 Started on her path to becoming an actress as the Oha Girl for TX’s Ohasuta.
2012 Starred in the hit movies Kirishima Bukatsu Yamerotteyo and Aku no Kyoten.
2013 Starring in Amachan opened up the door to appearances in TV variety shows.
2014 Made her theatrical debut in Yurei, produced by Shintaro Mori. Began her role as the heroine in NHK’s Thursday period drama Gin Ni Kan this April. In addition to roles in as yet unreleased movies, her varied work includes such things as MC for NHK’s Mezase! 2020 Nen no Orinpian CX Uketsukemon.
[Websites]
– NJ AnimeNEXT: http://www.animenext.org/
– Teenage Ennui: http://www.hokago-lost.jp/
