reel: NANA (live-action)

Title: NANA (live-action)

Japanese: ナナ

manga author: Ai Yazawa

director: Kentaro Otani

screenwriter: Taeko Asano and Kentaro Otani

genre: drama, romance, music, slice-of-life

release date: September 3, 2005

country: Japan

language: Japanese

blockbuster: US $34,671,042

CAST

MIKA NAKASHIMA as Nana Osaki

AOI MIYAZAKI as Nana Komatsu aka Hachi

RYUHEI MATSUDA as Ren Honjo

TETSUJI TAMAYAMA as Takumi

SYNOPSIS

This movie is based from the manga of the same title by Ai Yazawa.

Nana Osaki and Nana Komatsu have the same birthday, same age, same name but have different personalities. They met on a train bound to Tokyo, not realizing it's fate and they will build a friendship that will last a lifetime.

Nana O moved to Tokyo with her band Blackstones (aka Blast) and determined to defeat her ex-boyfriend's band Trapnest. Ren Honjo (ex-boyfriend) used to be the bassist for Blackstones, he and Nana O grew up in the same town, shared the same friends but he left to join a famous alternative band Trapnest. Nana K (Hachi) moved to Tokyo to reunite with her hometown boyfriend Shoji only to find out that he cheated on her. She will end up sharing an apartment with Nana O instead.

REVIEW

The live-action version of Nana was justified. The casting for every character is perfect except for Reira (Yuna Ito) which I felt it should've been Olivia (Lufkin) inspire' Reira vocalist for the soundtrack. Other than that I have no complains about the movie and was very satisfied. You will fall in love with the movie, the characters and specially the original soundtrack. Mika Nakashima sang “Glamorous Sky” which catapulted her singing career. Yuna Ito's single “Endless Story” (Trapnest song) ranked second on the Oricon charts which established her singing career as well.
OST
official theme ~ "Glamorous Sky" by Mika Nakashima inspir Nana of Blackstones

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