Directed by:
大友啓史Cast:
Ryūnosuke Kamiki, Hideaki Itō, Kuranosuke Sasaki, Ryō Kase, Kasumi Arimura, Kana Kurashina, Etsushi Toyokawa, 前田吟, Yuka Itaya, Eita Okuno, Masahiro Komoto, 高橋一生 (more)Plots(1)
Rei Kiriyama is a 17-year-old professional shogi player who lives alone in the east side of Tokyo. He lost his parents and younger sister in a traffic accident when he was still a child, and kept playing shogi day in and day out as if to cling to it out of loneliness. As a result, he became a professional player at an exceptionally young age while still in junior high school. The shogi board with 81 rectangles in a grid was the only world he knew. Then one day, he meets three sisters, Akari, Hinata, and Momo Kawamoto, who live in his neighborhood. For the first time he finds a place where he feels he belongs other than in front of a shogi board. The world of professional shogi where players with fierce talent and intense passion survive and the welcoming dinner table of the Kawamoto family filled with warmth like a spot of sunlight. Through the many intense games in which Rei battles with his mind and his interactions with the warmhearted people he gradually learns to love, he makes a certain decision as a professional shogi player and also as a person. (Toho Company)
(more)Cast
![Ryūnosuke Kamiki](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/164/056/164056415_c643c8.jpg)
Ryūnosuke Kamiki
Japan
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![Hideaki Itō](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/274/274876_de40f0.jpg)
Hideaki Itō
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![Kuranosuke Sasaki](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/164/488/164488298_54df4b.jpg)
Kuranosuke Sasaki
Japan
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![Ryō Kase](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/276/276027_b45532.jpg)
Ryō Kase
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![Kasumi Arimura](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/169/021/169021899_keke3u.jpg)
Kasumi Arimura
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![Kana Kurashina](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/168/959/168959753_4hoisk.jpg)
Kana Kurashina
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![Etsushi Toyokawa](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/097/319/97319093_200c74.jpg)
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![前田吟](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/918/160918420_6b4745.jpg)
前田吟
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![Yuka Itaya](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/169/087/169087243_cy4qnn.jpg)
Yuka Itaya
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![Eita Okuno](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/164/566/164566504_f0e0eb.jpg)
Eita Okuno
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![Masahiro Komoto](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/166/674/166674403_57bbca.jpg)
Masahiro Komoto
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![高橋一生](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/162/899/162899640_b24479.jpg)
高橋一生
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![Shigeru Saiki](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/166/916/166916666_9ad35b.jpg)
Shigeru Saiki
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Hiroyuki Onoue
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![Tomoya Nakamura](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/168/936/168936184_gdzsmh.jpg)
Tomoya Nakamura
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![岩松了](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/059/161059330_289290.jpg)
岩松了
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![Kaya Kiyohara](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/232/161232197_906349.jpg)
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Hiroshi Naka
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