During its industry panel at Anime Expo, Eleven Arts announced that A Silent Voice (Koe no Katachi) will be returning to U.S. theaters on October 12. The film is being re-released as part of its 5th anniversary.
The film is being released in partnership with AX Cinema Nights and will contain both Japanese with subs and an English dub.
Eleven Arts describes the film as follows:
A deaf elementary school girl, Shoko Nishimiya, upon transferring, meets a boy named Shoya Ishida in her new class. Shoya, who is not deaf, leads the class in bullying Shoko, because she is deaf. As the bullying continues, the class starts to bully Shoya for bullying Shoko. After graduating from elementary school, Shoko and Shoya do not speak to each other… until later, when Shoya, tormented over his past, decides he must see Shoko once more. Shoya wants to make amends for what he did in elementary school and be Shoko’s friend.
The film was originally released in Japan in 2016 and is available on Blu-ray in North America.
The manga is available through Kodansha and is authored by Yoshitoki Oima who also has penned and received an adaptation of To Your Eternity (Fumetsu no Anata e). To Your Eternity is also published in North America by Kodansha.
Source: Press Release
