Chihayafuru
2011, Series, Animation, Comedy, Drama, Japanese, Japan, MoviePedia score 70
Chihaya Ayase has spent most of her life supporting her sister’s model career. When she meets a boy named Arata Wataya, he thinks Chihaya has potential to become a great karuta player. As Chihaya dreams of becoming Japan's best karuta player, she is soon separated from her karuta playing friends. Now in high school, Chihaya still plays karuta in the hope that she will one day meet her friends again.
Directed by Morio Asaka, Yuzuru Tachikawa, Hideki Hosokawa, Kotono Watanabe, Kazuo Nogami, Eiichi Kuboyama, Naoyuki Itô, Jun Shishido, Tomoaki Ôta, Yoshitaka Makino, Toshikatsu Tokoro, Tomokazu Tokoro, Fumihiro Yoshimura, Atsuko Ishizuka, Fumio Maezono, Migmi, Yûta Takamura, Yukihiko Asaki, Hitomi Efuku, Hitomi Ezoe, Tatsuma Minamikawa, Tomomi Muraoka, Yūsuke Onoda, Takeyuki Sadohara, Takuma Suzuki, Masahiro Takada, Masaharu Tomoda
Cast
- Asami Seto as Chihaya Ayase
- Mamoru Miyano as Taichi Mashima
- Ai Kayano as Shiranamikai Girl
- Toru Nara as Yusei Nishida
- Tsubasa Yonaga as Tsutomu Komano
- Yoshimasa Hosoya as Sasagu Mori
- Megumi Han as Elementary School Girl
- Yuya Murakami as Takuma
- Bryson Baugus as Tsutomu Komano
- Miyu Irino as Akihiro Tsukuba
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