Film

Blue Giant

2023 · 2h · Animation · Drama · Music

Witness the origin of the next great jazz legend.

IMDb

7.8

Rotten Tomatoes

100%

Metacritic

71

High school student Dai Miyamoto has his life is turned upside down the day he discovers jazz. Picking up a saxophone and leaving his sleepy hometown for the bustling nightclubs of Tokyo, Dai will find that the life of a professional musician isn’t for the faint of heart, as he must confront what it truly means to be great.

Yuki Yamada

Dai Miyamoto (voice)

Shotaro Mamiya

Yukinori Sawabe (voice)

Amane Okayama

Shunji Tamada (voice)

Yusuke Kondoh

Masayuki Miyamoto (voice)

Mirei Suda

Ayaka Miyamoto (voice)

Kenji Nomura

Yui (voice)

Hiroki Touchi

Tyra (voice)

Yutaka Aoyama

Kawakita (voice)

Masayuki Kato

Isogai (voice)

Sayaka Kinoshita

Akiko (voice)

Hidenobu Kiuchi

Amanuma (voice)

Go Shinomiya

Uchiyama (voice)

Shinya Takahashi

Mochizuke (voice)

Junya Abe

Mika Doi

Ryosuke Higa

• Yuzuru TachikawaDirector
• NUMBER 8Screenplay
• Eri IsobeProducer
• Mikito BizenjimaProducer
• Kazutaka YamanakaExecutive Producer
• Keiji OtaExecutive Producer
• Kasumi TogoDirector of Photography
• Hiromi UeharaOriginal Music Composer
• Kiyoshi HiroseEditor

Official Trailer [Subtitled]

Release date

February 17, 2023

Status

Released

Original language

Japanese

Runtime

2h

Rated

NR

Genres

Animation, Drama, Music

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