Mika Nakashima will again stretch her range and do a ballad for an upcoming film set to release Jan. 23rd of next year. It is titled “Always.”

She has always been a difficult band to label, as her songs differ greatly from rock to jazz, to ballads, pop and more. It seems one day she’s a pretty princess, the next a goth queen.

The movie stars Miho Nakayama, and the background for the story is based off a novel written by well achieved author Hitonari Tsuji, Depending on how you look at it, this movie could do well because the story has already been laid out in a book, but on the flip side, novel purists may once despise the fact that another novel is being adopted into a film.

I’m glad that more J-rock/J-pop artists can assume more jobs in film.

Thanks to tokyograph