Nobunaga Concerto (film)

Nobunaga Concerto
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Japanese	信長協奏曲
Directed by	Hiroaki Matsuyama
Written by	Masafumi Nishida Michitaka Okada Keisuke Uyama
Screenplay by	Masafumi Nishida (manga)
Story by	Ayumi Ishii
Based on	Nobunaga Concerto by Ayumi Ishii
Produced by	Naoto Inaba Ken Murase Shinya Furugori
Starring	Shun Oguri
Edited by	Shoji Ehara
Music by	☆Taku Takahashi[1]
Production companies	Fuji TV Akita Television Ehime Broadcasting
Distributed by	Toho
Release date	23 January 2016 (2016-01-23)
Running time	126 minutes[1]
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese
Box office	$42.6 million[2][3]

Nobunaga Concerto (信長協奏曲) is a 2016 Japanese jidaigeki adventure film directed by Hiroaki Matsuyama, starring Shun Oguri and based on the manga series of the same name by Ayumi Ishii.^[4][5] It was released in Japan by Toho on 23 January 2016.^[1]

Plot

Saburo (Shun Oguri) is a high school student good in sports, but not very good with his studies. One day, Saburo travels back in time and arrives in the Sengoku period of 1549. There, Saburo meets Nobunaga Oda who looks and sounds just like Saburo. Nobunaga Oda is the son of a warlord and magistrate of the lower Owari Province. Nobunaga Oda though is physically weak and he asks Saburo to take his place. Then, Saburo as Nobunaga Oda attempts to unify the country of Japan.

Cast

• Shun Oguri as Saburō/Oda Nobunaga/Akechi Mitsuhide^[5]
• Kō Shibasaki as Kichō^[5]
• Osamu Mukai as Ikeda Tsuneoki^[5]
• Takayuki Yamada as Hashiba Hideyoshi^[5]
• Gaku Hamada as Tokugawa Ieyasu^[5]
• Arata Furuta as Matsunaga Hisahide^[5]
• Taisuke Fujigaya as Maeda Toshiie^[4]
• Kiko Mizuhara as Oichi^[4]
• Masahiro Takashima as Shibata Katsuie^[4]
• Denden^[4]
• Katsuya as Hachisuka Koroku^[4]
• Masanobu Sakata [ja]^[4]
• Shinnosuke Abe [ja]^[4]
• Takumi Kitamura^[4]

Reception

The film was number-one on its opening weekend in Japan, with 465,956 admissions and ¥616 million (US$5.2 million) in gross.^[6] It was the 9th highest-grossing film in Japan in 2016 and also the 6th highest-grossing Japanese film of the year in the country, with ¥4.6 billion (US$39.11 million).^[7]

References

1. "信長協奏曲（ノブナガコンツェルト）". eiga.com (in Japanese). Retrieved 20 December 2016.
2. "映画『信長協奏曲』評価は?映画情報や予告動画". ピクシーン Pick Scene 映画の評価ランキングやネタバレ (in Japanese). Retrieved 7 September 2019.
3. "Japanese Yearly Box Office".
4. "信長協奏曲（のぶながコンツェルト）(2016)". allcinema (in Japanese). Stingray. Retrieved 20 December 2016.
5. "Live-Action Nobunaga Concerto Film's 3 TV Ads Streamed". Anime News Network. 18 January 2016. Retrieved 20 December 2016.
6. "Japan Box Office Report – 1/23~1/24". tokyohive. 6Theory Media, LLC. 25 January 2016. Retrieved 20 December 2016.
7. "Top 20 Highest-Grossing Films in Japan Has 6 Anime Films". Anime News Network. 18 December 2016. Retrieved 20 December 2016.

External links

• Official website (in Japanese)
• Nobunaga Concerto at IMDb