{"id":29694,"date":"2025-05-03T23:26:26","date_gmt":"2025-05-04T03:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=29694"},"modified":"2025-05-03T23:26:26","modified_gmt":"2025-05-04T03:26:26","slug":"the-color-within-q-a-with-director-naoko-yamada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=29694","title":{"rendered":"The Color Within : Q&#038;A with Director Naoko Yamada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by Nobuhiro Hosoki<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nobuhiro Hosoki<\/strong> grew up watching American films since he was a kid; he decided to go to the United States thanks to seeing the artistry of Stanley Kubrick&#8217;s &#8220;A Clockwork Orange.\u201d After graduating from film school, he worked as an assistant director on TV Tokyo\u2019s program called &#8220;Morning Satellite&#8221; at the New York branch office but he didn\u2019t give up on his interest in cinema. He became a film reporter for via Yahoo Japan News. In that role, he writes news articles, picks out headliners for Yahoo News, as well as interviewing Hollywood film directors, actors, and producers working in the domestic circuit in the USA. He also does production interviews for Japanese distributors of American films and for in-theater on-sale programs. He is now the editor-in-chief of Cinemadailyus.com while continuing his work for Japan.<\/p>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1774669342741533\" data-ad-slot=\"1211148813\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-29695\" src=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/\u304d\u307f\u306e\u8272.png\" alt=\"\u304d\u307f\u306e\u8272\" width=\"640\" height=\"857\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/\u304d\u307f\u306e\u8272.png 640w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/\u304d\u307f\u306e\u8272-224x300.png 224w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a9Courtesy of GKIDS<\/p>\n<p>Totsuko is a high school student with the ability to see the &#8216;colors&#8217; of others. Colors of bliss, excitement, and serenity, plus a color she treasures as her favorite. Kimi, a classmate at her school, gives off the most beautiful color of all. Although she doesn&#8217;t play an instrument, Totsuko forms a band with Kimi and Rui, a quiet music enthusiast they meet at a used bookstore in a far corner of town. As they practice at an old church on a remote island, music brings them together, forming friendships and stirring affections. Will they discover their true &#8216;colors&#8217;?<\/p>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1774669342741533\" data-ad-slot=\"1211148813\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n<p><strong>Director<\/strong> : <a href=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?s=Naoko+Yamada\">Naoko Yamada <\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Producer<\/strong> : Yoshihiro Furusawa, Genki Kawamura, Eunyoung Choi, Wakana Okamura, Kohei Sakita<\/p>\n<p><strong>Screenwriter<\/strong> : Reiko Yoshida<\/p>\n<p><strong>Distributor<\/strong> : <a href=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?s=GKIDS\">GKIDS <\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Production Co<\/strong> : Story Inc., Science Saru<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rating<\/strong> : PG (Mild Thematic Elements)<\/p>\n<p><strong> Genre<\/strong> : Drama, Anime, Music<\/p>\n<p><strong>Original Language<\/strong> : Japanese<\/p>\n<p><strong>Release Date (Theaters)<\/strong> : Jan 24, 2025, Limited<\/p>\n<p><strong>Release Date (Streaming)<\/strong> : Apr 1, 2025<\/p>\n<p><strong>Runtime<\/strong> : 1h 50m<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you like the Q&amp;A, share your thoughts below!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/author\/nobuhosokigmail-com\/\">Check out more of Nobuhiro&#8217;s articles.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s the trailer of the film.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"jjfRNOVeuO8\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"THE COLORS WITHIN | Official English Trailer\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jjfRNOVeuO8?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by Nobuhiro Hosoki Nobuhiro Hosoki grew up watching American films since he was a kid; he decided to go to the United States thanks to seeing the artistry of Stanley Kubrick&#8217;s &#8220;A Clockwork Orange.\u201d After graduating from film school, he worked as an assistant director on TV Tokyo\u2019s program called &#8220;Morning Satellite&#8221; at the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29696,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,20471],"tags":[17112,25965,12485,2309,26891,25967,24572,25106,13105,26890,25966,25964,25776],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - 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