The animated feature film Wareware wa Uchuujin (We Are Aliens) — written, planned, and directed by Kadowaki Kohei — has released a special “theme-song trailer” that Kadowaki himself helmed from start to finish.

The trailer unveils a new passage of the film’s theme song “Sasakure”, performed by adieu (Kamiishiki Moka). Imagery of childhood — a school classroom, a sun-drenched commute, a ball left floating in an irrigation ditch — plays alongside scenes capturing the feelings and anguish of Tsubasa and Akotaro, two best friends who slowly drift apart after a seemingly trivial incident.

Story

The film follows a 30-year friendship between Tsubasa, a shy boy troubled by his own ordinariness, and Akotaro, the most popular kid in class. What begins as an inseparable bond is quietly unraveled by a single small event, reshaping both of their lives forever.

Celebrity Comments

A wave of praise from prominent figures across multiple fields has also arrived alongside the new trailer:

• Hagiwara Riku (actor): “I had so much fun watching it and I want to tell everyone about it — the excitement, the chills, that indescribable feeling. Anyone who’s seen it could talk about it for hours. For someone like me who was an elementary schooler in the Heisei era, the nostalgia hit way too hard. I want to watch it again.”
• Kita Kana (actor): “Those memories of youth you can never revisit — the ones that linger in a strangely rough way. This film scooped up feelings I couldn’t even explain to myself, with precision and tenderness. It gave me the greatest gift I’ve ever received from a film. Please — absolutely — watch it.”
• Hayashi Yuta (actor): “Everything from the world I lived in as a child was in this movie. The fear of people you can’t understand, the effort to hold yourself together, the inability to keep loving someone the same way forever. But it made me want to shout to those people who mattered back then: ‘Take care of yourself. See you around.'”
• Saito Nagisa (actor): “As I watched, forgotten childhood memories surfaced one after another, as if I’d been transported back in time. Every mundane scene and conversation, the world only children could see — rendered with astonishing delicacy. It made me think about what we remember and what we forget. I want as many people as possible to see this.”
• Kuribayashi Kazuaki (creative director): “A masterpiece always leaves my emotions in a mess. This film did exactly that. After five days of chaos, the feeling that finally settled was: ‘I can’t help but laugh.’ The madness is laugh-out-loud. The density of obsession is laugh-out-loud. It’s so extraordinary I genuinely burst out laughing.”
• Shinomiya Yoshitoshi (artist / Japanese painter): “A gaze that watches the delicate tremors within youth permeates every corner of the screen. The mounting pressure and compositional power with each cut drew me in completely, and above all, this film makes you feel the pure joy of watching cinema.”
• Kinoshita Tatsuya (poet): “Drawn in by meticulous description, then swept to an unexpected shore. This isn’t a film — it’s a torrent. The only thing I can tell those about to watch it: don’t let your guard down. I accidentally used up a lifetime’s worth of tears.”
• TaiTan (rapper): “How many times in a lifetime will I encounter a film this overwhelming? This is an extraordinary work that will undoubtedly remain in everyone’s memory and in history. You must see it. You must.”
• Miyake Kaho (literary critic): “The biggest shock of the year. During the end credits I found myself savoring the luck of being alive in the same era as Director Kadowaki. The story gives love in the name of hope to our weary world. That’s why I love stories.”
• Omori Tokio (TV Tokyo producer): “Before I knew it, I was crying. I want to talk about Wareware wa Uchuujin with every single person I meet. So please, just watch it.”
• Akapen Takigawa (film presenter): “I watched something extraordinary. Thirty years of two men’s diverging lives, flipped through like a photo album. Life is an accumulation of small moments — small victories, small failures — yet somehow you end up far from the life you imagined. I cried at fountain-level intensity and honestly scared myself.”
• Uno Koremasa (film journalist): “As someone who has consumed live-action films voraciously, I usually need to recalibrate before watching animation. With Wareware wa Uchuujin, there was no recalibration at all — I was thrown straight into the heart of the film in an instant. Midway through, it hit too close to home and I could barely breathe. It’s a miraculous ‘film for everyone’ that every viewer will feel was made just for them.”
• Bunkei (choreographer / novelist): “To everyone about to watch this: something incredible is coming. The history of animated film is about to move. See it with your own eyes. And to Director Kadowaki — this is a masterpiece at a level that will completely change your life once it’s released, so please get plenty of sleep while you still can.”

Film Details

Wareware wa Uchuujin opens nationwide in Japan on Friday, September 25, 2026.

Staff

• Planning / Screenplay / Director: Kadowaki Kohei
• Music: Yaffle
• Planning / Production / Studio: NOTHING NEW
• Cooperation: MIYU PRODUCTIONS
• Distribution: TOHO NEXT · NOTHING NEW

Cast (Voice)

• Tsubasa: Bando Ryuta
• Akotaro: Okayama Amane
• Konatsu: Yamazaki Ten (Sakurazaka46)
• Batahara: Matsui Kemuri
• Toda Seiya: Sano Gaku
• Toda Seiya (childhood): Ozeki Reika
• Matsushita Elmo: Sasaki Arisa
• Calligraphy teacher: Ed Harumi

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