A whole life can be too big for one movie, but “Jinsei” is trying anyway. Greenwich Entertainment has unveiled the U.S. trailer for Ryuya Suzuki’s animated feature, a hundred-year chronicle that follows one man as he moves through different identities, different eras, and different versions of himself. The film opens June 5 in New York before expanding nationwide June 12.
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Suzuki wrote, directed, edited, and hand-drew the film over 18 months, which gives the project an immediate point of distinction beyond the usual festival-launch anime import. The story follows a hero voiced by ACE COOL, called by a different name in each chapter of his life, as he becomes a J-pop idol, an outcast, a leader, and finally an oracle in a sweeping narrative that stretches across the past, present, and future.
That scale is the sell here. Instead of treating identity as a fixed thing, “Jinsei” appears to break a person apart across time, letting each new chapter reshape the last one. The voice cast also includes Taketo Tanaka, Shohei Uno, Tsubaki Nekoze, Remi Tyon, Eri Kamataki, Ryotaro Nishino, Ayumu Nakajima, Katsuya Maiguma, Miho Ohashi, and Kanji Tsuda. The film also arrives with festival backing from Annecy, which helps position it as something closer to an auteur breakout than a standard genre pickup.
For Greenwich Entertainment, the pitch is a good one: a newcomer announcing himself with a hand-made anime feature that looks both intimate and enormous at once. “Jinsei” opens Friday, June 5, in New York and nationwide Friday, June 12. Watch the trailer below.
