Chihayafuru: Part II

Chihayafuru: Part II

Your given passion, now I fight with it for you.

2016 · 112 min · ★ 7.7 · Romance, Comedy, Drama

After successfully won the Tokyo qualifying tournament, Chihaya and her friends are set to go on to the nationals. As they prepare, Chihaya is faced with new personal issues as her childhood friend and inspiration, Arata, has announced that he has quit competitive karuta. Not only that, but a new rival emerges in the reigning female champion karuta player, Shinobu Wakamiya, a karuta prodigy who became the nation's and the world's greatest female karuta player as a 9th grader. All of this forces Chihaya to reexamine her love of the game in the midst of preparing for one of the biggest tournaments of the year.

Directed by Norihiro Koizumi · Written by Norihiro Koizumi

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Suzu Hirose Chihaya Ayase
Shuhei Nomura Taichi Mashima
Mackenyu Arata Wataya
Mayu Matsuoka Shinobu Wakamiya
Mone Kamishiraishi Kanade Ooe
Yuma Yamoto Yusei Nishida
Yuki Morinaga Tsutomu Komano
Hiroya Shimizu Akihito Sudo
Ryotaro Sakaguchi Hiro Kinashi
Miyuki Matsuda Taeko Miyauchi
Jun Kunimura Hideo Harada
Kokoro Kuge Young Chihaya

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