Film / 2016

The Match Girl

Name: The Match Girl
Genre: Fantasy
Released: 2016-05-28
Duration: 94 min
Cast: Sumire Sato, Yutaka Kobayashi, Honda Takafumi, Kensho Ono, Karen Miyama

Regia Hiroshi Uchida

Fantasy

Rin (Sumire Sato) is a girl who sells matches. The buyers of the matches can fulfill their dreams by lighting the match, but they are also playing with fire. Based on manga series "Match Shoujo" by Sanami Suzuki (first published 2014 in monthly seinen manga magazine Young Ace). "Match Shoujo" is motivated by the short story “The Little Match Girl” written by Hans Christian Andersen and published in 1845.