“After everything, I still love music.”
We often spin tender lies out of love for someone. Fourteen-year-old Kiita has grown up in just such a lie, living alone with his blind mother, Hanae. As his voice begins to change, the boy decides to venture beyond the fence on his own, and in the back alleys of Tokyo comes face to face with realities far removed from what he has known. Yet just as truth has many faces, so too does its opposite, and Kiita gradually comes to see—and accept—that the lie that has protected his world has another face of its own.
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Cast
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Ruhito Okura
Kiita Nagasawa
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Horimiya
Yuka Itaya
Hanae Nagasawa
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Tokyo Vice
Outrage
Motoki Fukami
Raita Matsuno
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Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins
Guilty of Romance
Konosuke Harada
Daiya Iwakuma
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We Are Bad Barbers
Sabakan
Hideyuki Kasahara
Ken
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Bright Future
Ryohei Kumamoto Director · Atsuki Tomori Writer Ryota Yanagisawa Composer
First release October 9, 2026 · Produced in Japan · Production Eggman
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Eggman
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Japan
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Original title
はじまりのさよなら
Original language
Japanese
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Japanese
Release dates
South Korea · October 9, 2026
Premiere · Busan International Film Festival
Japan · November 20, 2026
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