Rent Blue Giant (2023)
3.9 of 5 from 54 ratings
1h 59min
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- Synopsis:
Dai Miyamoto's (voice of Yuki Yamada) life changes when he discovers jazz. He picks up a tenor saxophone and practices every day. After leaving his hometown, Sendai, he pursues a music career in Tokyo with help from his friend Shunji. One day, Dai plays passionately from the heart and convinces talented pianist Yukinori to start a band together. Along with Shunji, a beginner drummer, they form the three-piece band, JASS. With each live performance, they get closer and closer to their dream of playing at So Blue, the most famous jazz club in Japan, in hopes of forever changing the world of jazz. Based on the manga by Shinichi Ishizuka, Blue Giant from Yuzuru Tachikawa is a moving ode to the power of jazz with original music by HIROMI. - Directors:
- Yuzuru Tachikawa
- Producers:
- Mikito Bizenjima, Eri Isobe, Katsuhiro Takei, Atsushi Takahashi
- Voiced By:
- Junya Abe, Yutaka Aoyama, Mika Doi, Ryosuke Higa, Hana Hishikawa, Ikkyu Juku, Misa Kato, Masayuki Katô, Yasuhiro Kikuchi, Sayaka Kinoshita, Hitomi Kitazaki, Hidenobu Kiuchi, Naoto Kobayashi, Tatsuki Kobe, Yusuke Kondo, Shôtarô Mamiya, Yôhei Matsuoka, Karin Nanami, Keita Nishiyama, Shinya Nishiyama
- Writers:
- NUMBER 8, Shin'ichi Ishizuka
- Genres:
- Anime & Animation
- Countries:
- Japan
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- Release Date:
- 24/02/2025
- Run Time:
- 119 minutes
- Languages:
- Japanese Dolby TrueHD 5.1
- Subtitles:
- English, English Hard of Hearing
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.78:1 / 16:9
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Q and A with HIROMI
- Trailers and Teasers
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Reviews (1) of Blue Giant
All That Jazz, None of the Swing - Blue Giant review by griggs
Films about music live or die on whether the music lands, and Blue Giant mostly blows the roof off. The concert scenes genuinely swing, with the animation bending and warping to the force of Hiromi Uehara's storming score.
Shame, then, that everything between the gigs is pure sports-movie boilerplate: earnest riverside practice, rival turned friend, the big showcase looming. Dai wants to be the world's greatest saxophonist and tells you so often enough that you start wishing he'd just play. Give me the scrappy, chaotic joy of Swing Girls over all this greatness-chasing any day. Still, when the trio really locks in, the clichés are easy to forgive.
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