Eleven Arts began
streaming an English-subtitled version of the teaser trailer for Haikara-San: Here Comes Miss
Modern Part 2 (Haikara-san
ga Tōru Kōhen: Hana no Tōkyō Dai Roman), the second of two film adaptations of Waki Yamato's Haikara-san ga Tooru manga, on Wednesday.
The trailer reveals that Eleven Arts will screen
the film beginning on December 7 in the United States. Eleven Arts confirmed
with ANN that screenings in Canada are "unlikely."
The film opened in Japan on October
19.
Toshiaki Kidokoro (March
comes in like a lion episode director, Fireworks, Should We See
it from the Side or the Bottom? line director) is replacing the previously announced Mitsuko Kase (Ristorante
Paradiso, Young
Black Jack) as the director of Gekijōban Haikara-san
ga Tōru Kōhen: Hana no Tōkyō Dai Roman.
Saori Hayami,
who plays protagonist Benio Hanamura, will perform the new theme song
"Atarashii Ashita" (New Tomorrow). Mariya Takeuchi(Agatha
Christie no Meitantei Poirot to Marple, Toki no Tabibito -Time Stranger-) is again composing and writing
the lyrics for the song.
The story is
set in Tokyo in the Taishō era (1912-1926). The story follows Benio
"Haikara-san" Hanamura, who lost her mother when she was very young
and has been raised by her father, a high-ranking official in the Japanese army.
As a result, she has grown into a tomboy — contrary to traditional Japanese
notions of femininity, she studies kendo, drinks sake, dresses in often
outlandish-looking Western fashions instead of the traditional kimono, and is
not as interested in housework as she is in literature. She also rejects the
idea of arranged marriages and believes in a woman's right to a career and to
marry for love.
Haikara-san's
best friends are the beautiful Tamaki, who is much more feminine than
Haikara-san but equally interested in women's rights, and Ranmaru, a young man
who was raised to play female roles in the kabuki theater and as a result has
acquired very effeminate mannerisms. Haikara-san's betrothed is Shinobu Ijūin,
a second lieutenant in the army.
Th first film, Gekijōban Haikara-san ga
Tōru Zenpen - Benio, Hana no 17-sai, opened in Japan last November. Eleven Arts screened the
first film theatrically in the United States and Canada with the
title Haikara-San: Here
Comes Miss Modern Part 1 beginning on June 8.
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