There are coming-of-age movies, and then there is “Jinsei,” Ryuya Suzuki’s animated chronicle of a single extraordinary life stretched across a century of shifting identities, eras, and futures.
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Greenwich Entertainment will release the film in New York on June 5 before expanding it nationwide on June 12, and ahead of that rollout, the distributor has shared an official clip from Suzuki’s feature exclusively with The Playlist. The film, an official selection of the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, follows its hero as he becomes a J-pop idol, an outcast, and an oracle, spanning the past, present, and future.
The voice cast includes ACE COOL, Taketo Tanaka, Shohei Uno, Tsubaki Nekoze, Remi Tyon, Eri Kamataki, Ryotaro Nishino, Ayumu Nakajima, Katsuya Maiguma, Miho Ohashi, and Kanji Tsuda. Kenji Iwaisawa produced the film.
For a recent wave of Japanese animation reaching U.S. theaters, scale has not always meant studio sprawl. “Jinsei” arrives with a broad, century-long sweep. Still, its hook is more personal: one figure moving through labels, transformations, and public roles as the film tracks how identity can mutate across a lifetime. That gives Suzuki’s feature a built-in elasticity, moving from pop-culture spectacle to outsider story to something stranger and more prophetic.
“Jinsei” opens in New York on June 5 and nationwide on June 12. Watch the official clip below.
