Asahinagu (2017)
27K Comedy Family Genre Sport Ai Kozaki Daichi Endo Daisuke Ono Erika Ikuta Hajime Isayama Hiro Shimono Hiroshi Kamiya Kana Nakada Kazue Tsunogae Kazuhiro Fusegawa Kishô Taniyama Kiyo Matsumoto Kiyohito Yoshikai Mai Shiraishi Makoto Bessho Marika Itô Marina Inoue Masaki Terasoma Maya Okano Michiko Kaiden Miu Tomita Momo Ogata Nanase Nishino Natsuki Ikeda Noboru Takagi Noriko Eguchi Riko Fujitani Sayuri Matsumura Shinpei Ezaki Syuhei Takubo Tetsurô Araki Tomoya Nakamura Tsutomu Hanabusa Yasuko Kobayashi Yasuko Yoshikawa Yohei Nishina Yoshihito Sasaki Yoshino Ôtori Yû Kobayashi Yû Shimamura Yui Ishikawa Yûka Eda Yuka Kirishima Yûki Kaji Yuki Kodaira Yûki Morinaga Yuria Eda Yuzu Higuchi 2017 9.2 Japan Japanese Tetsurô Araki
Asahinagu: Directed by Tsutomu Hanabusa. With Yûki Morinaga, Tomoya Nakamura, Marika Itô, Mai Shiraishi. When it comes time to choose an extracurricular club three high school freshmen pick the naginata one or rather it picks them. Asahi and her friends consistently train and improve including a bout under the supervision of a monk at the monastery. There are ebbs and flows, but the girls are determined and support one another. The film is a vehicle for the members of girl-band Nogizaka46.
“One of the saddest episodes yet which berates the question, what is the cost of fighting and risking your lives when you have families that care about you?”
