Colorful (2000 film)

Colorful
DVD cover
Directed byShun Nakahara
Screenplay byYoshimitsu Morita
Based onKarafuru
by Eto Mori
Produced by
  • Kanji Hagiwara
  • Yasuo Takahashi
Starring
CinematographyJunichi Fujisawa
Edited byIsao Tomita
Music byShin'ichirō Ikebe
Production
companies
Distributed byBroadmedia Corporation
Release date
  • October 7, 2000 (2000-10-07) (Japan)
Running time
98 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

Colorful (Japanese: カラフル, Hepburn: Karafuru) is a 2000 Japanese supernatural fantasy drama film directed by Shun Nakahara and written by Yoshimitsu Morita. It is based on an award-winning novel of the same name by Eto Mori. The film stars Koki Tanaka in his first lead role in a feature film, as a soul given a second chance, reincarnated into the body of a fourteen-year-old boy who committed suicide. Sawako Agawa, Kanako Magara, Asuka Komayu and Yuki Kageyama also star in the film. Shin'ichirō Ikebe composed the film's soundtrack. Colorful was shown in competition at the 24th Montreal World Film Festival, where it was nominated for the Grand Prix des Amériques, before being theatrically released by Broadmedia Corporation on October 7, 2000, in Japan.