GKIDS announced on Thursday that it will begin screening INU-OH, Masaaki Yuasa’s musical anime feature film of Hideo Furukawa’s Heike Monogatari: INU-OH no Maki (Tales of the Heike: Inu-Oh) novel, in U.S. theaters on August 12.
One day, he meets a boy named Tomona, a blind biwa player, and as Tomona plays a delicate song of tangled fate, Inu-Oh discovers an incredible ability to dance.
Avu-chan of the Queen Bee rock band plays INU-OH, and Mirai Moriyama plays Tomona.
Through the songs, Inu-Oh mesmerizes his audiences on stage, and gradually begins to transform into someone of unequaled beauty.