Footage from Yutaka Yamamoto’s “Watashi no Yasashikunai Senpai” surfaces on YouTube

Early last week, Tokyograph reported that 16-year-old Umika Kawashima would be covering the 1997 debut of pop idol-turned-actress Ryoko Hirosue, "Maji de Koi Suru 5 Byou Mae", as the theme song for her upcoming movie Watashi no Yasashikunai Senpai.

Tokyo Metropolitan Television aired the news the same day, and someone was kind enough to upload the relevant clip -- complete with the very first footage made available from the film -- to YouTube:

The actual cover can only be heard briefly around the 1:15 mark. Compare with the original:

"Watashi no Yasashikunai Senpai" marks the live-action debut of Yutaka Yamamoto, director of "The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya", "Lucky Star", and "Kannagi". It's based on a story written by novelist Akira while still in high school. Kawashima plays a girl named Yamako who desperately wants to confess her love for an upperclassman (Jingi Irie), writing several drafts of a confession note only to hide them away in her pocket. However, her world is turned upside down when an obnoxious upperclassman (played by comedian Satoshi Kanada) becomes aware of the note.

The film will be released in Japan on July 17, 2010.

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