Cha-Cha

Cha-Cha (2024)

チャチャ

Cha-Cha is the love story between the titular Cha-Cha, a free-spirited artist, and Raku, a boy with increasingly questionable tastes. Cha-Cha is painted with the whimsical colors of a romantic comedy at its surface that belie much, much, much darker hues to be found in its deranged depths. Cha-Cha is silly, sweet, screwball, and completely unexpected.

Date of release
2024-10-11
TMDB
4.3 / 10 (3)
Runtime
1h 48m
Genres
Drama, Romance
Director
Mai Sakai

Casting

Interesting facts

Cha-Cha is a 2024 Japanese romantic comedy-drama film directed by Mai Sakai, starring Marika Itō and Taishi Nakagawa. It follows the titular protagonist, a free-spirited artist and illustrator, as she meets and falls in love with an introverted man. The film is the fourth instalment in the "(not) HEROINE movies" series.

Production

The film is the fourth instalment of the "(not) HEROINE movies" series, a project which aims to have "up-and-coming actresses" with "next-generation directors" on films which depict "heroines who are clumsy but live their lives to the fullest in the present." Mai Sakai, who was set to direct, wrote the script with the help of Takamasa Oe, making this Sakai's first original work in seven years.

Actress and former J-pop idol Marika Itō was cast as the lead. A producer had recommended Itō to Sakai, after which the two met for an interview. According to Sakai, she offered Itō the role in that first interview, finding her to be "very Cha-Cha-like." Itō claimed to have auditioned for the role as she was intrigued by the script and found that there were many aspects of Cha-Cha which she related to.

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