NANA the movie

Hachi (Aoi Miyazaki) & Nana (Mika Nakashima)

Manga version of Nana(right) & Hachi(left)

Ai Yazawa's famous manga series 'NANA', which's now adapted into movie is high on Japansese box office chart. The story is centred around two girls with the same name 'NANA' who happen to meet and live together under a strike of fate. One of them(the cool looking one) is a promising punk singer with a complicated past and a wild ambition to make her name in the music industry; and the other chubby and cute one is an ordinary girl who struggles for a decent living and falls in & out of love all the time. It's a story about two women with the same name and entangled fates, but more of life and reality itself.

To make the differences easier to see, the punk singer goes with the name 'NANA'(meaning 7 in Japanese), and the chubby one is nicknamed 'hachi' ('8' in Japanese)

Mika Nakashima (NANA), who's already a popular singer in real life, is perfectly tailored for the role. Cool looks, good voice and a hell of lot personality to go with. Aoi Miyazaki (Hachi), a young rising star on the other hand, is sweet enough for the role although not as spontaneous as depicted in the orignal manga. About the main male character Ren (Nana's lover), well... they could've chosen a less feminine looking actor.


Hachi(voice over): Ne, NANA, atashitachi no deaiyo omoideru?
[Hey, NANA, remeber the first time we met?] -> Trailers

- Links -
Official Japanese Movie Website
TBS NANA the movie[in English]