{"id":141184,"date":"2025-12-02T09:19:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T17:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/?p=141184"},"modified":"2025-12-03T08:20:35","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T16:20:35","slug":"look-back-manga-gets-live-action-film-from-award-winning-director-hirokazu-kore-eda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2025\/12\/02\/look-back-manga-gets-live-action-film-from-award-winning-director-hirokazu-kore-eda\/","title":{"rendered":"(Updated) Look Back Manga Gets Live-Action Film from Award-Winning Director Hirokazu Kore-eda"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Update:<\/strong> Here are the two visuals for the live-action Look Back<\/em> film:<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aside from directing, Kore-eda is also is also credited with the script and editing.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Original article:<\/strong> A live-action film adaptation of Tatsuki Fujimoto<\/strong>‘s Look Back<\/em> manga is on the way, according to manga editor Shinhei Rin<\/strong><\/a> (Spy x Family<\/em>, Fujimoto’s Chainsaw Man<\/em>) and the latest chapter of Chainsaw Man<\/em>. Its director is Hirokazu Kore-eda<\/strong>, who helmed Palme d’Or winner Shoplifters<\/em> and received the Asian Film Awards’ Best Director award two years in a row for Broker<\/em> and Monster<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The movie will premiere in 2026. Uncovered visuals (we’ll include them when they are officially revealed, but one of them can be seen with the new CSM<\/em> chapter here<\/a>) link the production to K2 Pictures<\/strong>, which was founded in 2023 and announced a 500 million yen investment from the Development Bank of Japan via its K2P Film Fund I on November 28, 2025, via their URL source and listed copyright notice.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n

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Look Back<\/em> is a Shueisha-published one-shot that was released in July 2021 and is also available in English via Manga Plus and VIZ Media. The story follows two classmates who develop a friendship through a passion for drawing. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

An anime movie adaptation directed by Kiyotaka Oshiyama <\/strong>(Flip Flappers<\/em> director, Chainsaw Man<\/em> devil designer) at his Studio Durian<\/strong> was released in 2024 and won the Best Animated Work award at the 48th Japan Academy Film Prize. An exhibition<\/a> will be held at Tokyo\u2019s Azabudai Hills Gallery next year from January 16 to March 29. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Source: <\/strong>@SHIHEILIN (via Denfamico Gamer<\/a>)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Update: Here are the two visuals for the live-action Look Back film: Aside from directing, Kore-eda is also is also credited with the script and editing. Original article: A live-action film adaptation of Tatsuki Fujimoto‘s Look Back manga is on the way, according to manga editor Shinhei Rin (Spy x Family, Fujimoto’s Chainsaw Man) and the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":141229,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1053,10],"tags":[4432,3862,8402,122,1638],"class_list":["post-141184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-feature","category-anime","tag-live-action-adaptation-2","tag-live-action-movie-2","tag-look-back","tag-manga","tag-shueisha"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Look-Back-live-action-visual-1-1-e1764731005373.jpg?fit=850%2C480&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8n4QV-AJa","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141184"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141184"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141236,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141184\/revisions\/141236"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}