CATDOLL: The animated film "The Flower and Alice Murder Case" will be released in BD version in August

The first feature-length animated film "Hana to Alice Murder Case" directed by Shunji Iwai was released on February 20, 2015. This work is a prequel to the 2004 live-action film "Hana to Alice". At that time, Aoi Yu and Suzuki Anne, who starred in the film, played Alice and Hana as voice actors. After the release of this work, it received good reviews, and "Hana to Alice Murder Case" was also nominated for the Annecy International Animated Film Festival's Feature Animation Award. Now it has been announced that the work will be released in a BD version, which will be publicly released on August 12. This BD will include interviews with director Shunji Iwai and the two leading actors Aoi Yu and Suzuki Anne as a bonus.

The anime "Hana to Alice Murder Case" tells the story of a triangle relationship between two girls who have been friends since childhood and a boy. The story shows the inner emotions of the two girls in a delicate and subtle way. The protagonists of the movie "Hana to Alice", Yu Aoi and Anne Suzuki, played the protagonists again 10 years later, and this time they stood behind the scenes to voice the protagonists.