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Get Ready for Live-Action Laughing Under the Clouds Film with Dance Video
posted on by Crystalyn Hodgkins
The staff of the live-action film of Kemuri Karakara's Laughing Under the Clouds (Donten ni Warau) manga are ramping up the promotion for the film's upcoming debut in Japan on March 21. As part of the preparations, the cast got together to create a pretty special "Donten Dance ~D.D~" dance video for fans, which was posted earlier this month:
In the video, members of the Yamainu Squad question a scroll that reads, "If you seal it, then dance." As the members fight over the meaning and what to do, music starts to play, enticing the members to dance. Except for Seiichirō Takamine (played by Shunsuke Daito), the vice-captain of the squad, who wants nothing to do with it. Dance fever however, gets him and the rest of the cast eventually. A narrator at the end of the video says, "this video has absolutely no connection to the actual movie."
Yūki Furukawa, who plays Abe no Sōsei, choreographed the dance, which was his first time working as a choreographer. He's also the one break dancing in the video in the beginning.
The film inspired a live-action prequel spinoff titled Tenka, Yamainu Yameruttesa (They Say Tenka is Quitting the Yamainu) that streamed on January 1. Katsuyuki Motohiro (Psycho-Pass chief director) is directing the film, and Yuuya Takahashi (Laughing Under the Clouds anime series, Tiger & Bunny, Lupin the Third) wrote the script. Rock band Sakanaction is performing the theme song "Kagerō" (Heat Haze), as well as the opening song "Donten ni Warau -opening&ending‐with GOCOO."
YouTube video via Movie Collection
