Keita MATSUDA (Harajuku – Tenshi ga Kureta Nanoka Kan) directs a dark fantasy based on Victor Hugo's novel “The Story of the Bold Pecopin”.
Set in modern Japan and medieval Europe, this is a love story between high school students as well as Pecopin, lord of the castle, who left his fiancée to go hunting. Nichika AKUTSU and AKB48 Team 8 member, Miu SHITAO, play dual characters in each of the two worlds.
Theatrical release in Japan will be on June 2, 2023.
