Trailer - Eclair (Eclair Okashi Hourouki)

The Japanese film site Cinema Today has uploaded a trailer for Akio Kondo’s Eclair to their channel on YouTube.

Based on an autobiographical novel by Shigeru Nishimura, the film stars Hajime Yoshii as a young orphan boy named Akio who’s sent to a reform school in the spring of 1943 after he escapes an orphanage and is caught stealing sweets. He quickly attracts the attention of an ultra strict instructor called “White Satan” who doles out spartan discipline, but Akio feels healed when he hears Yoko-sensei (Saori) sing the song “Okashi to Musume”.

Akio is soon adopted by a single woman named Fusano (Ayumi Ishida). However, he quickly realizes she only sees him as a child laborer, and thus he decides to leave and begin traveling with a provincial touring company. For the first time in his life he feels like he truly belongs, but the reality of the war will soon descend upon him.

“Eclair” will be released in Japan on May 21, 2011.