Little Touch of Heaven

Little Touch of Heaven (ヘブンズタッチ, Hebunzutatchi, lit. Heaven's Touch) is a 2005 anime romantic comedy-drama film directed by Nagisa Miyazaki from a story by Mamiko Ikeda, who co-wrote the film's screenplay. It was animated by Zexcs, and co-produced by Shochiku, Geneon Entertainment, Dentsu, and Genco. Starring the voices of Hisayoshi Suganuma, Mamiko Noto, Daisuke Namikawa, Katsuo Nakamura, Hoko Kuwashima and Masatoshi Hamada, the film is about Koichi Furukawa (Suganuma), a student who generally shuns anything to do with romance and love due to his parents' divorce, him wanting to focus on his studies, and an incident with another student (Kuwashima), however, things begin to change when his childhood friend, a half-Japanese half-American girl named Shizuka Thornton (Noto) returns home and begins to rekindle her friendship with him.
Little Touch of Heaven was Zexcs' first feature film production and their second original work after Kikō Sennyo Rōran in 2002. It was first released to theaters in Japan by Shochiku on June 11, 2005, where it grossed ¥4.3 billion. LIVE Entertainment licensed the film for release in the United States, and an English-dubbed version featuring the voices of Shawn Ashmore, Alison Lohman, Harvey Keitel, Ashley Tisdale, Nathan Lane and Dennis Quaid was released by Paramount Pictures on July 14, 2006. It received generally favorable reviews from critics and grossed an additional $63 million outside of Japan for a worldwide total of $90 million.
== Plot==
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==Cast==
Character 	Seiyū 	Dub Actor
Koichi Furukawa 	Hisayoshi Suganuma 	Shawn Ashmore
Koichi Furukawa 	Asami Sanada (younger)	Alexander Gould (younger)
Shizuka Thornton 	Mamiko Noto 	Alison Lohman
Shizuka Thornton 	Mamiko Noto 	Ariel Winter (younger)
Ryo Kitamura 	Daisuke Namikawa 	Keith Silverstein
Tsutomu Hirayama 	Katsuo Nakamura 	Harvey Keitel
Hitomi Mikami 	Hoko Kuwashima 	Ashley Tisdale
Kichirou Ohara 	Masatoshi Hamada 	Nathan Lane
Nobuo Maeda 	 	Jeff Bennett
Suzume Furukawa 	 	Grey DeLisle
Daichi Furukawa 	 	Jess Harnell
Mizuki Sanda 	 	Michelle Ruff
Hideki Tamashiro 	 	R. Martin Klein
Fumiko Suto 	 	Bridgit Mendler
Ayaka Morimoto 	 	Wendee Lee
Yasuhiro Yamamura 	 	Dennis Quaid
Chieko Yamamoto 	 	Jodi Benson
Hikari Domen 	 	Tara Platt
Eiji Matsushima 	 	Jack DeSena
School Announcer 	 	Daran Norris
Shizuka's Parents 	 	Cindy RobinsonDavid Lodge
Additional Students	 	Rob PaulsenKate HigginsDavid Neil BlackYuri Lowenthal
Teachers 	 	Liam O'BrienKim Strauss
Narrator 	Naoki Tatsuta 	Tony Jay
===Additional Voices=== 
*Dee Bradley Baker
* Steve Blum
*Ben Bishop
*Quinton Flynn
*Aileen Sander
*James Arnold Taylor
*Maile Flanagan
*Bridget Hoffman
* Jason Harris Katz
*Cam Clarke 
==Production==
The film began development at the then newly formed Zexcs in 2000, from a pitch by Mamiko Ikeda, who was inspired to come up with the story for the film after seeing A Penguin's Memories sometime prior. Nagisa Miyazaki was appointed to direct the film the year afterward. As Zexcs was still a relatively small company at the time, the film was largely financed by a small variety of companies consisting of Geneon Entertainment, Dentsu, Genco, and distributor Shochiku.
The original script, written by Ikeda, was titled Koichi's Story, but would be changed to Heaven's Touch in Japan and internationally to Little Touch of Heaven. The voice cast for the film was announced in 2004, along with the release date.
==Release==
===Theatrical===
Little Touch of Heaven was first released in Japan by Shochiku on June 11, 2005. It opened in 215 theaters before expanding to 223 later on. During it's release in Japan, the film made back ¥4.3 billion.
After a bidding war between Geneon Entertainment USA, The Weinstein Company and Destination Films, LIVE Entertainment licensed the film for distribution in the United States. LIVE would partner with Studiopolis to produce an English dubbed version of the film, which was directed by Liam O'Brien, written by Tom Rogers and featured the voices of Shawn Ashmore, Alison Lohman, Harvey Keitel, Ashley Tisdale, Nathan Lane and Dennis Quaid.
In the United States, Paramount Pictures and LIVE Entertainment released the film in 2,846 theaters on July 14, 2006 (with a $14 million marketing cost). Two English language trailers for the film were created by Paramount to promote the film, both of which featured the song You and Me by Lifehouse. During it's theatrical release, it opened at #2 at the domestic box office behind Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, grossing $21,834,039 million in it's opening weekend. It went on to make $47.8 million with an additional $15.3 million, for a combined total of $90 million worldwide.
===Home media ===
Little Touch of Heaven was released on DVD in Japan by Geneon Entertainment on October 19, 2005. This release contained a filmmakers' commentary, a behind the scenes featurette, and the Japanese theatrical trailer.
In the United States, the film was released on DVD, HD-DVD and Blu-ray by Paramount Home Entertainment on November 21, 2006, becoming one of the first anime films released on the latter two formats. These releases contain a production featurette on the English dub, the Japanese behind the scenes featurette (with English subtitles) and the American theatrical trailer for the film.
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