PREVIEW: The Quintessential Quintuplets Movie (12A)

WHO’S IN IT? (ENGLISH VERSION)

Josh Grelle (The Boy and the Beast), Lindsay Seidel (Father Heaven and Earth), Jill Harris (One Piece Film: Gold), Felecia Angelie (Assassination Classroom: 365 Days), Bryn Apprill (Hal), Tia Ballard (Summer Wars), Terri Doty (Dragon Ball Super: Broly)

WHO’S IN IT? (JAPANESE VERSION)

Yoshitsugu Matsuoka (The Stranger By the Shore), Kana Hanazawa (Your Name), Ayana Taketatsu (Girls und Panzer der Film), Miku Itō (Mazinger Z: Infinity), Ayane Sakura (Promare), Inori Minase (The Anthem of the Heart), Mutsumi Tamura (Naruto Shippuden the Movie: The Lost Tower)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Masato Jinbo (film debut), director; Keiichirô Ôchi (film debut), writer; Gōta Aijima (film debut), Makoto Furukawa (film debut), Yūichi Izumi (Goblin Slayer: Goblin’s Crown), Mitsutoshi Ogura (Blackfox), Tomoyuki Ōwada (film debut), Jun’ichirô Tanaka (film debut), Tomoki Ueda (Violet Evergarden: Eternity and the Auto Memory Doll) and Kento Yoshida (Psycho-Pass: Sinners of the System Case.1 Crime and Punishment), producers; Hanae Nakamura (film debut) and Miki Sakurai (film debut), composers; Daisuke Chiba (film debut), cinematographer; Mutsumi Takemiya (Heaven’s Door), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Futaro Uesugi (Grelle/Matsuoka), a high school student hired as a private tutor to the five Nakano quintuplets – Ichika (Seidel/Hanazawa), Nino (Harris/Taketatsu), Miku (Angelie/Itō), Yotsuba (Apprill/Sakura) and Itsuki (Ballard/Minase) – plans to confess his love to one of the sisters during their school’s upcoming festival…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

The feature-length continuation of the popular manga series and the television adaptation offers some nail-biting answers to long-running fans, while also offering some pleasant romantic-comedy vibes to newcomers.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 9TH DECEMBER 2022

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

IN CINEMAS NATIONWIDE

 

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