BECK live-action

An ordinary high school student Koyuki encouraged to pick up guitar after a chance encounter with a talented guitarist named Ryusuke Minami. The two eventually form a band with bassist Taira, lead vocalist Chiba, and drummer Saku, naming it BECK after Minami's dog.

Koyuki discovers he has a natural gift for playing guitar. As his talent blooms, the band experiences more and more success, eventually getting invited to play at a rock festival.

• The film was released by Shochiku Company on September 4, 2010.
• The film shooting began on July, 2009.
• Whereas Koyuki was the protagonist of the original manga, the film focuses on Ryusuke.
• The film features about 30 original songs performed by actors.

Japanese director Yukihiko Tsutsumi started his career directing commercials and music promotion videos as an employee of Nihon Television. After spending time abroad, he returned and started his own production company, Crescendo, and since he works independently. He directed such successful and awarded TV-series as Ikebukuro West Gate Park (2000), Trick (2000), H2 (2005). He became known by western audience for his movie 2LDK (2002), which was coupled with Ryuhei Kitamura's film Aragami to form the Duel Project, and strong festival movie Chinese Dinner (2001). With movies Memories of Tomorrow (2006), Happily Ever After (2007) and trilogy 20th Century Boys (2008-2009) he is one of the profilic and significant person in Japanese film and television industry.

BECK
Hiro Mizushima as Ryusuke Minami
leader and lead guitarist


Takeru Sato as Koyuki Tanaka
rhythm guitarist and vocalist


Kenta Kiritani as Chiba
vocalist and rapper


Osamu Mukai as Taira
bass guitarist


Aoi Nakamura as Saku
drummer

Shiori Kutsuna as Maho Minami
 

Takanori Takeyama as Kenichi Saitou
 

Yuki Matsushita as Kazuo Sato
 

Shido Nakamura as Ran
 

Belle Ame
Kensei Mikami as Eiji Kimura
 

Yuta Furukawa as Yoshito Morozumi
 

Dying Breed
Brett Pemberton as Eddie Lee
 

Lee Sankey as Leon Sykes
Floyd Lee as John Lee Davis

And
Beck
Lucille

Mizushima Hiro:

• My character Ryusuke and I both once lived abroad. When playing Ryusuke I always try to keep that in mind.


• I had not guitar experience at all and therefore I had to cut a lot of hours of sleep for practice.

Takeru Sato:

• Since I have so many things in common with my character Yuki, I didn't have to spend much time researching and developing my role.


• I had no experience either and I even got blisters on my fingers, because I practiced too much.

Kenta Kiritani:

• I try to think that I'm the only one who can play this role. I don't mull over whether or not I resemble the original manga character.

Osamu Mukai:

• While putting an emphasis on the music, Tsutsumi-san also depicts the weak and strong aspects of people. He is very audacious to always implement unorthodox ideas into the movie on the fly.

Aoi Nakamura:

• When playing instruments all my costars look very cool. Movies about rock bands aren't just for guys. I hope lots of gir ls come to see this movie too.

• The original manga was serialized from 2000 to 2008 in Kodansha's Monthly Shonen Magazine.


• It has sold out more than 15 million copies of the 34 volumes since the first publication.


• The manga won the 2002 Kodansha Manga Award for shounen category.


• This comic series were licensed in North America by Tokyopop and it published first 12 volumes.

• The original manga was adapted as an 26-episode anime television series, which was aired on Japan's TV Tokyo from October 2004 to March 2005.
  
  
• Anime was released with the title BECK: Mongolian Chop Squad, possibly to avoid confusion with musician Beck Hansen.
  
  
• It was directed by Osamu Kobayashi, animated by Madhouse and produced by Takeshi Shukuri and Yoshimi Nakajima.