‘Homeless Chugakusei’ gets a full trailer
Posted by kevin at 3:51pm on Friday, July 18, 2008 EDT
Filed under: Comedy, Drama, Future releases, New trailers
Comedian Hiroshi Tamura’s autobiographical novel, Homeless Chugakusei, has sold over 2 million copies in Japan since it was released last year. As Tokyograph reported back in December, there was a bidding war for the film rights, with Toho winning out in the end. In recent months that popularity has also yielded a manga adaptation and a Fuji TV drama. Gee guys, overexpose much?
The movie stars WaT’s Teppei Koike as a 14-year-old who finds himself homeless for a summer when his family falls apart. He ends up living in a nearby park where he only has rain water to bathe and gets so hungry he tries to eat grass and cardboard. Akihiro Nishino and Chizuru Ikewaki also star. Check out the brand new full trailer below.
“Homeless Chugakusei” opens on October 25th in Japan.
Tags: akihiro nishino, ayumi ishida, chizuru ikewaki, issey ogata, teppei koike, tomoyuki furumaya, yuko kotegawa, yuko tanaka
Comments
I guess it’s the “strike while the iron is hot” philosophy. Can’t argue with success though.
Posted by kevin at 9:07pm EDT on Friday, July 18, 2008
nice. i checked the official site yesterday because interviews had started to appear online. no new trailer at that time… i’m quite interested in this film, love to see it.
wondering, when i translate the title, if it really is “homeless chinese boy”. what’s ‘chugakusei’, anyone?
Posted by logboy at 4:18am EDT on Saturday, July 19, 2008
chugakusei is “junior high school student”
Posted by kevin at 7:13am EDT on Saturday, July 19, 2008
And “Chinese boy” is “Chugokusei”, so you might’ve had a small typo when you searched it.
Posted by The Golden Rock at 9:29am EDT on Saturday, July 19, 2008
Thankfully, the “drama” was just an one-off TV movie, and its ratings were good enough now that Toho should at least have a moderate-sized hit on their hands.
Besides, this overexposure is not even as bad as Tokyo Tower, which saw a TV movie, a 11-episode drama, and a movie - all in the same year!
Posted by The Golden Rock at 9:01pm EDT on Friday, July 18, 2008