The official website for the live-action film of Kei Sanbe’s Boku dake ga Inai Machi (The Town Where Only I Am Missing) manga began streaming a trailer for the film on Friday. The trailer previews the film’s theme song “Hear ~Shinjiaeta Akashi~” by Chise Kanna.
The website also revealed a new poster for the film.
Tatsuya Fujiwara (live-action Death Note, Rurouni Kenshin) as the protagonist Satoru Fujinuma.
Kasumi Arimura (When Marnie Was There, live-action Strobe Edge) as Airi Katagiri, Satoru’s part-time job coworker.
Yuriko Ishida (Princess Mononoke, From Up On Poppy Hill) as Satoru’s mother.
Mitsuhiro Oikawa (Revolutionary Girl Utena: The Movie, live-action Nodame Cantabile) as Satoru’s elementary school teacher.
Rio Suzuki as Kayo Hinazuki
Tsubasa Nakagawa as elementary school age Satoru
Tetta Sugimoto
Kento Hayashi
Seiji Fukushi
Kanna Mori
Hirakawa is directing the film off scripts by Noriko Gotō. The film is slated to open in Japan on March 19.
The manga’s story follows Satoru, a struggling manga artist who has the ability to turn back time and prevent deaths. When his mother is killed he turns back time to solve the mystery, but ends up back in elementary school, just before the disappearance of his classmate Kayo.
Sanbe began the manga in 2012 and it is currently serialized in Kadokawa’sYoung Ace magazine. Kadokawa published the seventh compiled volume in December. The manga was nominated for the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize ‘Reader Award’ in 2014 and last year’s Manga Taisho Awards.
An anime adaptation (titled ERASED in the West) premiered on January 7 onFuji TV’s Noitamina block. Crunchyroll and Funimation are streaming the series as it airs in Japan. The anime will depict the manga’s ending.