First-day-screening event of new movie "Hyouka"

The first-day-screening event of new movie "Hyouka" was held at TOHO Cinemas Shinjuku on 3 November which was attended by the director Asato Mari and cast members Yamazaki Kento, Hirose Arisu, Kojima Fujiko, Okayama Amane, Amano Nazuki and Hongo Kanata. The film is based on the same-titled debut novel by mystery writer Yonezawa Honobu that sold more than 2.5 million copies and had been made into a manga and TV anime series previously.


Yamazaki plays the role of Oreki Houtarou who is a Year 1 senior high school student and lives by the mantra of "If I don't have to do something, I won't, but if I have to, I'll do it quickly" so as to "save energy". At the order of his elder sister, he joins the classic literature club in school so as to prevent it from being shut down. While there, he meets Chitanda Eru (Hirose) who comes from a family of wealthy farmers and is energetic and inquisitive about everything and they set up a newly-reformed classic literature along with Fukube Satoshi and Ibara Mayaka, who are Houtarou's friends since junior high. The four of them then try to unravel the truth behind "Hyouka" which is a compilation of classic literature published 33 years and their school festival which has a long-running history.

When asked about their personality traits in real life, Yamazaki said that when he posed the same question to Hongo who is his senior from the same agency, the latter replied with the answer that he is a very optimistic person. Hongo then explained that Yamazaki does not think too much about things or agonise over anything. Just then, Yamazaki revealed that he also thought about this question which led Okayama to tease him for not saying his answer first.

Source: Eiga.com