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Persona 3 the Movie: #1 Spring of Birth

Persona 3 the Movie: #1 Spring of Birth

The End of Everything Begins...

20137.21h 38m

Overview

In the spring, male student Makoto Yuki transfers to Gekkoukan High School. However, as he heads to his new dormitory, listening to the music on his headphones, he is stopped. More precisely, time has stopped, and the people who were around him turn into coffins. Makoto learns that this period of time hidden between the minute of midnight is called the Dark Hour, a time when monsters called Shadows appear. Suddenly made the leader of his fellow classmates Yukari and Junpei by his upperclassmen Mitsuru and Akihiko, Makoto must learn empathy, his connection to his comrades, and the meaning of death. With the power of his Evoker aimed at his head he awakens a Persona and fights against the Shadows threatening to attack his world from the mysterious tower of Tartarus.

Directed by Noriaki Akitaya
Written by Kouji Okada, Kazuma Kaneko, Jun Kumagai
Produced by Kazuki Adachi, Yoshikazu Tanaka, Osamu Hosokawa
Box Office0Revenue: $2.0M

Top Cast

Akira Ishida

Akira Ishida

Makoto Yuki / Pharos (voice)

Megumi Toyoguchi

Megumi Toyoguchi

Yukari Takeba (voice)

Kohsuke Toriumi

Kohsuke Toriumi

Junpei Iori (voice)

Rie Tanaka

Rie Tanaka

Mitsuru Kirijo (voice)

Hikaru Midorikawa

Hikaru Midorikawa

Akihiko Sanada (voice)

Mamiko Noto

Mamiko Noto

Fuuka Yamagishi (voice)

Kazuya Nakai

Kazuya Nakai

Shinjiro Aragaki (voice)

Isamu Tanonaka

Isamu Tanonaka

Igor (voice)

Miyuki Sawashiro

Miyuki Sawashiro

Elizabeth (voice)

Hideyuki Hori

Hideyuki Hori

Shuji Ikutsuki (voice)

Themes & Keywords

supernaturalsuper powerdeathbased on video gameanimejapanese high school

About Persona 3 the Movie: #1 Spring of Birth

Persona 3 the Movie: #1 Spring of Birth is a adventure, animation, fantasy film released in 2013 exploring themes of supernatural, super power, death, based on video game, anime, japanese high school. Directed by Noriaki Akitaya, it stars Akira Ishida, Megumi Toyoguchi, Kohsuke Toriumi. In the spring, male student Makoto Yuki transfers to Gekkoukan High School. However, as he heads to his new dormitory, listening to the music on his headphones, he is stopped. More precisely, time has stopped, and the people who were around him turn into coffins. Makoto learns that this period of time hidden between the minute of midnight is called the Dark Hour, a time when monsters called Shadows appear. Suddenly made the leader of his fellow classmates Yukari and Junpei by his upperclassmen Mitsuru and Akihiko, Makoto must learn empathy, his connection to his comrades, and the meaning of death. With the power of his Evoker aimed at his head he awakens a Persona and fights against the Shadows threatening to attack his world from the mysterious tower of Tartarus.

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