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Chihayafuru: Part II (2016)
Directed by Norihiro Koizumi
Overview
After successfully won the Tokyo qualifying tournament, Chihaya and her friends are set to go on to the nationals. As they prepare, Chihaya is faced with new personal issues as her childhood friend and inspiration, Arata, has announced that he has quit competitive karuta. Not only that, but a new rival emerges in the reigning female champion karuta player, Shinobu Wakamiya, a karuta prodigy who became the nation’s and the world’s greatest female karuta player as a 9th grader. All of this forces Chihaya to reexamine her love of the game in the midst of preparing for one of the biggest tournaments of the year.
Length 112 minutes
Actors
Suzu Hirose | Shuuhei Nomura | Mackenyu Arata | Mayu Matsuoka | Mone Kamishiraishi | Yuma Yamoto | Yuki Morinaga | Hiroya Shimizu | Ryôtarô Sakaguchi | Miyuki Matsuda | Jun Kunimura | Kokoro Kuge | Amon Kabe | Riku Hagiwara | Kaisei Kamimura | Kento Kaku | Kaya Kiyohara | Kentaro Tamura | Kazunori Mimura | Eru Yamada | Miho Tsumiki | Masane Tsukayama