Your Lie in April Live - Action Film's New Clip Shows Kōsei, Kaori's On-Stage Performance 

Your Lie in April Live-Action Film\'s New Clip Shows Kōsei, Kaori\'s On-Stage Performance

) manga began streaming a new clip from the film on Wednesday featuring Kaori (played by

The film also stars E-girls all-female pop group member Anna Ishii as Kōsei\'s childhood friend Tsubaki Sawabe and Taishi Nakagawa (

live-action series\' Minami) as Ryōta Watari. Other cast members include

as Kōsei\'s mother Saki Arima, and Yuka Itaya as Hiroko Seto, Saki\'s colleague and Kōsei\'s guardian.

live-action romance film director Takehiko Shinjō is directing off scripts by

will perform the film\'s theme song "Last Scene."

In the original manga\'s story, the two characters are junior high school students, but Kōsei and Kaori will be second-year high school students in the film. Yamazaki and Hirose began practicing piano and violin about half a year before the start of filming.

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