- Movie: Bring on the Melody! / Haruta & Chika
- Romaji: Haruchika
- Japanese: ハルチカ
- Director: Masahide Ichii
- Writer: Sei Hatsuno (novel), Masahide Ichii, Masahiro Yamaura
- Producer: Reiko Imayasu, Ayako Sato, Mitsuru Sato
- Cinematographer: Masafumi Seki
- Release Date: March 4, 2017
- Runtime: 118 min.
- Genre: Teen / Music
- Distributor: Kadokawa Pictures
- Language: Japanese
- Country: Japan
Plot
Haruta (Shori Sato) is handsome and smart, Chika (Kanna Hashimoto) is bright and naive. When they were children, they were friends until Haruta’s family moved away while he was in the 3rd grade. They meet again during a high school entrance ceremony. After all of these years, Chika is eager to join the wind instrument club. Due to an incident, the wind instrument club is about to be disbanded. Chika can’t give up the flute so she attracts Haruta to her side and tries to recruit members from the wind instrument club. The group attempts to solve various cases taking place at their school while they plan to take part in a contest.
Notes
- Based on the novel “Haruchika” by Sei Hatsuno (first published October 29, 2008 by Kadokawa Shoten).
- Filming begins mid-April, 2016.
- First lead acting role in a movie for Shori Sato.
Cast
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| Shori Sato | Kanna Hashimoto | Yuri Tsunematsu | Hiroya Shimizu | Koki Maeda |
| Haruta Kamijo | Chika Homura | Naoko Serizawa | Kaiyu Hiyama | Keisuke Katagiri |
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| Hiraoka Takuma | Moka Kamishiraishi | Himeru Nikaido | Kotaro Shiga | Keisuke Koide |
| Kyoji Miyamoto | Taeko Yonezawa | Wakaba Noguchi | Toshio Iwai | Shinjiro Kusakabe |
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