Your Lie in April Live-Action Film's New Poster, Stills Unveiled 

Your Lie in April Live-Action Film\'s New Poster, Stills Unveiled

\'s romantic drama manga opens in Japan on September 10

) manga unveiled a new poster visual and three stills from the film on Friday. The poster contains the text, "It was the most painful lie."

The first still shows main character Kōsei (

) with childhood friends Tsubaki (Anna Ishii) and Ryōta (Taishi Nakagawa). The second still shows Kōsei preparing for the contest with Kaori (

). The third still shows Kōsei in the store with Kaori.

The site previously streamed a trailer for the film in June.

E-girls all-female pop group member Anna Ishii will play Kōsei\'s childhood friend Tsubaki Sawabe, and Taishi Nakagawa (

live-action series\' Minami) will play Ryōta Watari. Other cast members include

as Kōsei\'s mother Saki Arima, and Yuka Itaya as Hiroko Seto, Saki\'s colleague and Kōsei\'s guardian.

will also play as-yet unannounced roles in the film.

live-action romance film director Takehiko Shinjō is directing off scripts by

will perform the film\'s theme song "Last Scene."

In the original manga\'s story, the two characters are junior high school students, but Kōsei and Kaori will be second-year high school students in the film. Yamazaki (left in visual above) and Hirose (right) began practicing piano and violin about half a year before the start of filming.

A television anime series adaptation of Arakawa\'s manga premiered in 2014.

as it aired in Japan. The company released the series with an English

, with the first Blu-ray Disc released on March 29, and the second volume released on May 31.

Arakawa\'s original shōnen manga follows Kōsei Arima, a former child prodigy who lost his ability to play the piano when his mother died. His daily life is monochrome, but it begins to gain color when he meets a female violinist by chance. Kaori Miyazono is an audacious go-getter who is overflowing with personality. Enchanted by the girl, Kōsei starts to move forward with his own legs at the age of 14.

published the 11th and final compiled volume in Japan in May 2015, which shipped with an

episode. The series won the Best Shōnen Manga category in

is releasing the manga in North America, and released the eighth volume on July 8.

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