Chihayafuru Part II (2016)
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.
Country: Japan
Directors: Norihiro Koizumi
Casts: Suzu Hirose as Chihaya Ayase, Shūhei Nomura as Taichi Mashima, Mackenyu Arata as Arata Wataya, Mayu Matsuoka as Shinobu Wakamiya, Mone Kamishiraishi as Kanade Ooe, Yuma Yamoto as Yusei Nishida, Yuki Morinaga as Tsutomu Komano, Hiroya Shimizu as Akihito Sudo, Ryôtarô Sakaguchi as Hiro Kinashi, Miyuki Matsuda as Taeko Miyauchi, Jun Kunimura as Hideo Harada, Kokoro Kuge as Chihaya (child), Amon Kabe as Arata (child), Riku Hagiwara , Kaisei Kamimura
