High School Debut (film)

High School Debut
Film poster
Kanji	高校デビュー
Revised Hepburn	Kōkō Debyū
Directed by	Tsutomu Hanabusa
Written by	Yuichi Fukuda
Based on	High School Debut by Kazune Kawahara
Starring	Junpei Mizobata Ono Ito
Distributed by	Asmik Ace Entertainment
Release date	1 April 2011 (2011-04-01) (Japan)
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese
Box office	$3,242,697[1]

High School Debut (高校デビュー, Kōkō Debyū) is a 2011 Japanese film directed by Tsutomu Hanabusa and based on the manga of the same name. It was released in cinemas in Japan on 1 April 2011.[2]

Cast

• Junpei Mizobata as Yoh Komiyama
• Ito Ohno as Haruna Nagashima
• Masaki Suda as Fumiya Tamura
• Rina Aizawa as Asami Komiyama
• Yuki Furukawa as Yui Asaoka
• Sae Miyazawa as Mami Takahashi
• Rei Okamoto as Makoto Kurihara
• Yuka Masuda as Leona Matsuzaka
• Elaiza Ikeda as Takemoto
• Tsukaji Muga as Tsukaxile
• Yoichi Nukumizu as teacher

Film Festivals

This film was featured in the 3rd Okinawa International Movie Festival in the "Laughs" category.[3]

Theme song

The theme song of the film High School Debut is "Fall in Love", by the band 7!! (pronounced "Seven Oops").[4] This is the first major label debut by this Okinawan band, which was founded in 2004.[4] This song was released as a digital single on RecoChoku on 1 April 2011.[5] It was ranked 1st in terms of download on the RecoChoku weekly download charts that was announced on 6 April 2011.[5] The singles version of this song was subsequently released by Epic Records Japan on 13 April 2011.[6]

7!! also performed a cover of the 1998 song "Ai no Shirushi" by Puffy.[4] This song was used as an insert song in this film.[4]

See also

• High School Debut, the manga on which the film was based

References

1. "Koukou deby? (High School Debut)". Archived from the original on 25 April 2016. Retrieved 19 February 2020.
2. "cinemacafe.com". cafegroove Corporation. (in Japanese). Retrieved 24 January 2011.
3. "Okinawa International Movie Festival Homepage". Okinawa International Movie Festival Execution Committee. Archived from the original on 24 July 2011. Retrieved 11 April 2011.
4. キマグレンの前座バンドが映画『高校デビュー』の主題歌デビュー. Oricon, Inc. (in Japanese). 27 January 2011. Retrieved 21 August 2012.
5. 新人バンド7!!の映画『高校デビュー』主題歌がレコチョク週間初登場1位. Barks (in Japanese). 6 April 2011. Retrieved 21 August 2012.
6. "フォーリン・ラブ [Single, Maxi]". Amazon Japan (in Japanese). Retrieved 21 August 2012.

External links

• Official website (in Japanese)
• High School Debut at IMDb