Chihayafuru: Part I

When Chihaya Ayase was in the 6th grade of elementary school, she met Arata Wataya. Arata Wataya transferred from Fukui Prefecture. Taichi Mashima was Chihaya Ayase's friend since they were little. Arata got close to Chihaya and Taichi from the card game karuta. Four years later, Chihaya is a high school student. Chihaya learns that Arata, who went back to Fukui Prefecture, doesn't play karuta anymore. Believing they will meet Arata again, Chihaya and Taichi starts a karuta club at their high school.

7.2

111 min

Cast

Suzu Hirose

as Chihaya Ayase

Shuhei Nomura

as Taichi Mashima

Mackenyu

as Arata Wataya

Mone Kamishiraishi

as Kanade Ooe

Yuma Yamoto

as Yusei Nishida

Yuki Morinaga

as Tsutomu Komano

Hiroya Shimizu

as Akihito Sudo

Ryotaro Sakaguchi

as Hiro Kinashi

Mayu Matsuoka

as Shinobu Wakamiya

Miyuki Matsuda

as Taeko Miyauchi

Jun Kunimura

as Hideo Harada

Kokoro Kuge

as Chihaya (child)

Eru Yamada

as Taichi (child)

Amon Kabe

as Arata (child)

Kentaro Tamura

Riku Hagiwara

Masane Tsukayama

Kaisei Kamimura

Mariko Kobayashi

Yuri Tsunematsu

as Saki's friend

Suzuki Takayuki

as Karuta Player

Director

Norihiro Koizumi