Released:
2016-04-29

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.

Director:
Norihiro Koizumi

Runtime:
1h 52min

Genre:
Romance, Comedy, Drama

• Cast:
• 
  Suzu Hirose
  as
  Chihaya Ayase
• 
  Shuhei Nomura
  as
  Taichi Mashima
• 
  Mackenyu
  as
  Arata Wataya
• 
  Mayu Matsuoka
  as
  Shinobu Wakamiya
• 
  Mone Kamishiraishi
  as
  Kanade Ooe