Anazâ (2012)

After a chain of deaths at a junior high school, new transfer student Koichi Sakakibara (Kento Yamazaki) turns to a mysterious girl (Ai Hashimoto) who holds the key to the dark mystery. In ... See full summary »

Director:

Takeshi Furusawa

Writers:

Yukito Ayatsuji (based on the novel by), Sachiko Tanaka (screenplay)

Stars:

Natsumi Takamori, Mika Akizuki, Ayana

1 win & 1 nomination.

Cast

Credited cast:
Natsumi Takamori	...	Misaki Fujioka (Voice)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Mika Akizuki	...	Izumi Akazawa
Ayana
Guin Poon Chaw	...	Tamie Mikami (as Ginpuncho)
Yoshihiko Hakamada	...	Tatsuji Chibiki
Ai Hashimoto	...	Misaki Mei
Kai Inowaki	...	Yuya Mochizuki
Ai Katô	...	Reiko Mikami
Mana Konno	...	Sakurako Wakui
Kanno Manna	...	Sakurako Wakui
Bokuzô Masana	...	Ryoichi Kubodera
Masaki Miura	...	Katsumi Matsunaga (as Miura Masaki)
Maya Okano	...	Yukari Sakuragi
Amane Okayama	...	Yu Yamada
Hiroko Satô	...	Sanae Mizuno

Storyline

After a chain of deaths at a junior high school, new transfer student Koichi Sakakibara (Kento Yamazaki) turns to a mysterious girl (Ai Hashimoto) who holds the key to the dark mystery. In the spring of 1998, 15-year-old Koichi Sakakibara's (Kento Yamazaki) father goes abroad and Koichi Sakakibara goes to live with his aunt Reiko Mikami (Ai Kato), who lives in a mountain region. Not long after he moves in with his aunt, he collapses from a pneumothorax attack and becomes hospitalized. One day, at the elevator in the hospital, Koichi meets a pretty girl wearing a uniform and an eye patch. Koichi just stares at her. The pretty girl says something strange and then vanishes in the hospital mortuary. After being discharged from the hospital, Koichi goes to his new school. He finds the pretty girl, Mei Misaki (Ai Hashimoto) is also in his class. Koichi doesn't feel comfortable, because all of his classmates and even his teacher act like the girl doesn't exist.

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Plot Keywords:

live action remake of anime | junior high school | eye patch | schoolgirl uniform | schoolgirl | 

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Genres:

Horror | Mystery

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Details

Official Sites:

Official site [Japan]

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Release Date:

4 August 2012 (Japan)

Also Known As:

Another película

Filming Locations:

Iga, Mie, Japan

Company Credits

Production Co:

Twins Japan

Technical Specs

Runtime:

109 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color Black and White

Did You Know?

Connections

Remake of Another (2012)

User Reviews

Better than I thought it would be

To those of you who have not seen the anime I'm going to give you a brief description of the story.

A young boy from tokyo moves to a village out in the middle of nowhere. It just so happens that the class he is entering at his new school is cursed.

The curse is such that the students in the class have to follow certain rules or else people in the class and their families have a chanced of being killed.

I would go into more detail but to do so would ruin some surprises this story contains.

For those of you who have seen the anime, you will be happy to know that the movie script stays almost the same as the animation. The major scenes from the anime are duplicated in the film pretty well.

Now i have seen a lot of live action anime films, and despite this one being obviously lower budget, it is still really good!

The actors and actresses even though they look a lot older than middle school kids did a great job acting. I was overall satisfied with the film and would recommend it to others. Some parts are corny but i thought the same for the anime.