The live-action film of Tomoko Yamashita’s “The Night Beyond the Tricornered Window” (さんかく窓の外側は夜)) BL manga starts streaming the official trailer that previews the film’s theme song “Darker and Blacker” (暗く黒く) performed by Japanese band Zutto Mayonaka de Iinoni. The film will open on 22nd January 2021 in Japan.
The story centers on Kosuke Mikado, a bookstore clerk, who is able to see ghosts since he was young. One day, he meets Rihito Hiyakawa, a fearless exorcist who lacks social boundaries. Hiyakawa is able to see and exorcise ghosts by entering Mikado’s body and requests him to become his assistant.
As the two work closely together, they learn that the supernatural incidents are closely tied with a high school student named Erika Hiura, who works as a mercenary necromancer to cast curses on other people. As Mikado and Hiyakawa investigate, Mikado begins realizing that Hiyakawa is hiding a secret.
The movie stars Masaki Okada as Rihito Hiyakawa, Jun Shison as Kosuke Mikado, and Yurina Hirate as Erika Hiura.
“Goodbye, Grandpa” director Yukihiro Morigaki is directing the film, and “Gravity Clown” scriptwriter Tomoko Aizawa is penning the script.
Yamashita serialized the manga in Libre Publishing’s Magazine BExBOY since March 2013 and Libre Publishing released the manga’s seventh volume in April 2019. The series has sold a cumulative total of 1 million physical copies in Japan by January 2020.
