A new music video for the Wind Breaker live-action film has been released featuring the theme song “Stay Strong” by BE:FIRST. Not only does the music video contain the lyrics for the theme song, but it also contains new footage from the Wind Breaker live-action film.
The Wind Breaker live-action film opens December 5 in Japan. Kentarō Hagiwara directs the film, with a script by Japan Academy Prize winner Yōsuke Masaike. Warner Brothers is distributing the film, which was shot from February to April 2025 in Okinawa. The production rented a local shopping avenue to serve as the film’s open set.
The cast includes:
- Kōshi Mizukami as Haruka Sakura
- Taisei Kido as Akihiko Nirei
- Keito Tsuna as Hayato Suō
- JUNON as Kyōtarō Sugishita
- Motoki Nakazawa as Tōma Hiragi
- Shūhei Uesugi as Hajime Umemiya
- Rikako Yagi as Kotoha Tachibana
- Kōki Yamashita as Chōji Tomiyama
- Noritaka Hamao as Jō Togame
Wind Breaker Season 2 aired weekly from April 3 to June 19 in the Super Animeism TURBO block on 28 MBS and TBS affiliate channels. The anime is streaming on ABEMA, Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, U-NEXT, and other streaming services in Japan. Crunchyroll is streaming the anime series outside of Japan with English subs and dubs.
Toshifumi Akai directed the second season at CloverWorks with Hiroshi Seko in charge of series scripts. Taishi Kawakami designed the characters and Ryō Takahashi composed the music.
Additional staff members include:
- Chief Animation Directors: Taishi Kawakami and Yūsuke Tanaka
- Action Director: Kazuyuki Asaka
- Prop Design: Maiko Hado
- Art Setting/Director: Yasunao Moriyasu
- Color Key Artists: Kyōko Hara and Asuka Yokota
- Compositing Director of Photography: Yukiko Nagase
- 3D Director: Keita Watanabe (Sublimation)
- Editing: Akinori Mishima
- Sound Director: Jin Aketagawa
