EXCLUSIVE: Japanese recording artist JYuno is set to have three songs featured in Girl, the recently wrapped crime-thriller directed by Destry Allyn Spielberg and starring Jason Isaacs, Sofia Wylie, Luke Newton and Maddie Ziegler.
The emerging Japanese singer has a somewhat mysterious profile and is known for performing behind a veil but has been growing her presence on social platforms and Japanese media outlets in recent months. Her work combines music, illustration, animation and fashion.
“Being part of Girl is incredibly meaningful to me,” JYuno said in a statement. “Music can express emotions that characters cannot always say out loud. I am very excited that these songs will become part of the world of the film and that audiences outside Japan will be able to discover my music through this story.”
Destry, daughter of film legend Steven Spielberg, made her filmmaking debut with 2024 genre movie Please Don’t Feed the Children, starring Michelle Dockery. Girl, which recently wrapped in Savannah, Georgia from a script by Will Danilow, follows “the aftermath of a tennis instructor being found viciously murdered in a summer beach town where wealth and status control everything; a local cop must look deep into the instructor’s last days and his own complicated past to get to the bottom of the twisted case.”
The film is a production of Tetrad Studios, Crazy Legs Features, Valecroft, and 5 More Minutes Productions in association with Neighborhood Entertainment Fund. It is being produced by Roy Scott MacFarland, Tom Cappello, Scott Thigpen, Colin Bates, William Ramsey, Matt Groesch, John Sacchi, Marc Danon, and Jessica Fox-Thigpen.
“JYuno represents a new generation of Japanese artists whose creativity can travel across borders,” said executive producer Ryu Kubo. “She has created a world around her music that is emotional, visual and unmistakably her own. Bringing her music into a film directed by Destry Allyn Spielberg creates an exciting bridge between Japanese music and international cinema.”