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Live-Action Erased Film's 2nd Behind-the-Scenes Video Streamed

The Mainichi Shimbun newspaper's MAiDiGiTV YouTube channel began streaming a second behind-the-scenes video for the live-action film of Kei Sanbe's Boku dake ga Inai Machi (The Town Where Only I Am Missing) manga on Thursday. The video shows director Yūichirō Hirakawa (Rookies: Graduation) being strict on child actor Tsubasa Nakagawa.

The video ends by asking Nakagawa what time in the film's recording he would like to turn time back to. Nakagawa responds saying before the filming, wishing to receive praise and encouragement from director Yūichirō Hirakawa.

The manga's story follows Satoru, a struggling manga artist who has the ability to turn back time and prevent deaths. When his mother is killed he turns back time to solve the mystery, but ends up back in elementary school, just before the disappearance of his classmate Kayo.

The film's cast includes:

• Tatsuya Fujiwara (live-action Death Note, Rurouni Kenshin) as the protagonist Satoru Fujinuma.
• Kasumi Arimura (When Marnie Was There, live-action Strobe Edge) as Airi Katagiri, Satoru's part-time job coworker.
• Yuriko Ishida (Princess Mononoke, From Up On Poppy Hill) as Satoru's mother.
• Mitsuhiro Oikawa (Revolutionary Girl Utena: The Movie, live-action Nodame Cantabile) as Satoru's elementary school teacher.
• Rio Suzuki as Kayo Hinazuki
• Tsubasa Nakagawa as elementary school age Satoru
• Tetta Sugimoto
• Kento Hayashi
• Seiji Fukushi
• Kanna Mori

Hirakawa is directing the film off scripts by Noriko Gotō. The film is slated to open in Japan on March 19.

Sanbe began the manga in 2012 and it is currently serialized in Kadokawa's Young Ace magazine. Kadokawa published the seventh compiled volume in December. The manga was nominated for the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize 'Reader Award' in 2014 and last year's Manga Taisho Awards.

An anime adaptation (titled ERASED in the West) premiered on January 7 on Fuji TV's Noitamina block. Crunchyroll and Funimation are streaming the series as it airs in Japan. The anime will depict the manga's ending, which is scheduled for March 4.