The Film (album)

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The Film
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ReleasedMarch 23, 2022
Recorded2021
VenueShinjuku Milano, Tokyo
Uniqlo City, Tokyo
Nippon Budokan, Tokyo
Length182:50
LanguageJapanese
Label Sony Japan
Director Masamichi Shimizu (T-S-ing)
Yoasobi chronology
The Film
(2022)
The Film 2
(2024)

The Film is the first video album by Japanese duo Yoasobi. It was released on March 23, 2022, through Sony Music Entertainment Japan, on Blu-ray exclusively. It consists of the duo's 2021 three concerts: Keep Out Theater, Sing Your World, and Nice to Meet You (day 2); and the enlarged version of their episode of documentary program Jōnetsu Tairiku , broadcast in December 2021. The Film debuted atop both the Oricon Blu-ray Disc Chart, and the Music DVD and Blu-ray Chart, selling 21,000 copies in its first week. [1]

Contents

Background and release

On January 26, 2022, Yoasobi announced to release the video album, titled The Film, on March 23. It contains two Blu-ray discs on bookbinder of the duo's three concert films–the first livestream concert, Keep Out Theater; the collaboration with Uniqlo's UT free livestream concert, Sing Your World; and the second day of their first in-person concert Nice to Meet You, as well as unreleased footage from for the Yoasobi episode of Jōnetsu Tairiku , a MBS TV documentary program which aired on December 12, 2021. It also included a photobook taken during the concerts. [2] [3]

To commemorate the release, the duo teased three concerts by four performances uploaded via YouTube: "Ano Yume o Nazotte" from Keep Out Theater on February 15, [4] "Gunjō" from Sing Your World on March 1, [5] and "Moshi mo Inochi ga Egaketara" and "Tsubame" from Nice to Meet You on March 8 and 23, respectively. [6] [7]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Ayase

Disc 1 – Yoasobi 1st Online Live "Keep Out Theater"
No.TitleLength
1."Ano Yume o Nazotte"4:26
2."Halzion"3:23
3."Tabun"4:22
4."Haruka"4:13
5."Kaibutsu"3:47
6."Encore"4:36
7."Yoru ni Kakeru"4:48
8."Gunjō"4:08
Disc 1 – UT×Yoasobi Online Live "Sing Your World"
No.TitleLength
9."Sangenshoku"4:09
10."Halzion"3:18
11."Mō Sukoshi Dake"3:16
12."Tabun"4:18
13."Kaibutsu"4:09
14."Encore"4:45
15."Yoru ni Kakeru"4:25
16."Haruka" (with Osaka Tōin Senior High School brass band club)4:02
17."Gunjō" (with Osaka Tōin Senior High School brass band club)4:31
Total length:70:36
Disc 2 – Yoasobi Live at Budokan "Nice to Meet You"
No.TitleLength
1."Ano Yume o Nazotte"4:36
2."Taishō Roman"2:52
3."Halzion"3:18
4."Sangenshoku"4:34
5."Mō Sukoshi Dake"4:39
6."Haruka"4:10
7."Tabun"4:24
8."Moshi mo Inochi ga Egaketara"3:33
9."Yoru ni Kakeru"4:24
10."Kaibutsu"4:08
11."Yasashii Suisei"3:43
12."Encore"4:41
13."Tsubame"3:53
14."Gunjō"6:34
15."Loveletter" (encore)3:49
Disc 2 Jonetsu Tairiku
No.TitleLength
16."Personal documentary program Jonetsu Tairiku" (MBS TV production / TBS nationwide television broadcast; enlarged version)49:44
Total length:112:14

Notes

Charts

Chart performance for The Film
Chart (2022)Peak
position
Japanese Blu-ray Disc (Oricon) [8] 1
Japanese Music DVD and Blu-ray (Oricon) [9] 1

Sales

Sales for The Film
RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Japan20,456 [10]

Release history

Release dates and formats for The Film
RegionDateFormatLabelRef.
JapanMarch 23, 2022 Blu-ray Sony Japan [11]

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