Blue Giant

Feb 17, 2023

2h 0m

★ 7.8

Witness the origin of the next great jazz legend.

Overview

High school student Dai Miyamoto has his life is turned upside down the day he discovers jazz. Picking up a saxophone and leaving his sleepy hometown for the bustling nightclubs of Tokyo, Dai will find that the life of a professional musician isn’t for the faint of heart, as he must confront what it truly means to be great.

Genres

Animation

Drama

Music

Production Companies

NUT

TOHO

Blue Giant Trailers

Cast

Dai Miyamoto (voice)

Yuki Yamada

Yukinori Sawabe (voice)

Shotaro Mamiya

Shunji Tamada (voice)

Amane Okayama

Masayuki Miyamoto (voice)

Yusuke Kondoh

Ayaka Miyamoto (voice)

Mirei Suda

Yui (voice)

Kenji Nomura

Tyra (voice)

Hiroki Touchi

Kawakita (voice)

Yutaka Aoyama

Isogai (voice)

Masayuki Katô

Akiko (voice)

Sayaka Kinoshita

Amanuma (voice)

Hidenobu Kiuchi

Uchiyama (voice)

Go Shinomiya

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