Look Back (2024)

Name: Look Back
Director: Kiyotaka Oshiyama
Genre: Animation, Drama
Released: 2024-06-28
Duration: 58 min
Cast: Yuumi Kawai, Mizuki Yoshida, Yoichiro Saito, Kota Oka

Animation Drama

Director: Kiyotaka Oshiyama

Cast: Yuumi Kawai, Mizuki Yoshida, Yoichiro Saito, Kota Oka

Runtime58 min

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Popular, outgoing Fujino is celebrated by her classmates for her funny comics in the class newspaper. One day, her teacher asks her to share the space with Kyomoto, a truant recluse whose beautiful artwork sparks a competitive fervor in Fujino. What starts as jealousy transforms when Fujino realizes their shared passion for drawing.

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Fans of thoughtful, character-driven animation will appreciate the nuanced exploration of rivalry and creativity in Look Back. Directed by Kiyotaka Oshiyama in 2024, the film features standout performances from Yuumi Kawai and Mizuki Yoshida that bring depth and humanity to the story of two classmates whose artistic passions collide.

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Look Back is a 2024 Japanese animated coming-of-age drama film based on the one-shot web manga of the same name by Tatsuki Fujimoto. The film is directed by Kiyotaka Oshiyama, who also wrote the screenplay and served as a character designer, and produced by Studio Durian. It stars Yuumi Kawai and Mizuki Yoshida as two girls with a passion for drawing—the outgoing Fujino (Kawai) and the truant recluse Kyomoto (Yoshida), the latter of whose artistic ability inspires a competitive fervor in Fujino that soon develops into a partnership.