International Premiere – Tsubasa Yamaguchi’s Blue Period manga is an acclaimed coming-of-age story about the power of passion, dedication and art.

It has over 8 million copies in print worldwide and has won awards at the Kodansha Manga Awards and Manga Taisho Awards. Now, Yamaguchi’s striking manga comes to life through director Kentaro Hagiwara.

Following Yatora (Gordon Maeda) through his sophomore year of high school, his life changes when completing an art project. Consumed by a deep new feeling inside himself, he submerges into the world of art and challenges himself to get into one of the most difficult art universities in Japan.

Yatora’s journey is one of competition, compulsion, despair and beauty driven forward by a mesmerizing soundtrack by Yuki “Yaffle” Kojima. See it at JAPAN CUTS before it comes to theaters in Japan in August!

Tickets: Japan Society