Look Back (film)

Look Back
Theatrical release poster
Japanese name
Katakanaルックバック
Transcriptions
Revised HepburnRukku Bakku
Directed byKiyotaka Oshiyama
Screenplay byKiyotaka Oshiyama
Based onLook Back
by Tatsuki Fujimoto
Starring
Music byHaruka Nakamura
Production
company
Studio Durian
Distributed byAvex Pictures
Release dates
  • June 2024 (2024-06) (Annecy)
  • June 28, 2024 (2024-06-28) (Japan)
Running time
60 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese
Box officeUS$12.7 million

Look Back (Japanese: ルックバック, Hepburn: Rukku Bakku) is a 2024 Japanese animated coming-of-age drama film based on the one-shot web manga of the same name by Tatsuki Fujimoto. The film is directed by Kiyotaka Oshiyama, who also wrote the screenplay and served as a character designer, and produced by Studio Durian. It stars Yuumi Kawai and Mizuki Yoshida as two girls with a passion for drawing—the outgoing Fujino (Kawai) and the truant recluse Kyomoto (Yoshida), the latter of whose artistic ability inspires a competitive fervor in Fujino that soon develops into a partnership, furthered by loss in a mass violence event.

Look Back premiered at the French Annecy International Animation Film Festival in June 2024. It was theatrically released in Japan by Avex Pictures on June 28, 2024.