Fantasy · Japan · 2016 · 1h 34m

The Match Girl

燐寸少女マッチショウジョ

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Cast

Sumire Sato as Rin Yutaka Kobayashi as Isami Naito Honda Takafumi as Osamu Ujiie Kensho Ono as Kanato Kishida Karen Miyama as Kanoko Tanaka

Crew

山口牧子 — Editor Kitaji Ishikawa — Screenplay Sanami Suzuki — Writer Keisuke Sanpei — Producer

Synopsis

Rin (Sumire Sato) is a girl who sells matches. The buyers of the matches can fulfill their dreams by lighting the match, but they are also playing with fire. Based on manga series "Match Shoujo" by Sanami Suzuki (first published 2014 in monthly seinen manga magazine Young Ace). "Match Shoujo" is motivated by the short story “The Little Match Girl” written by Hans Christian Andersen and published in 1845.

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