Masaki Okada and Nana Eikura are set to star in a new film by Takahisa Zeze called Antoki no Inochi.
Based on a novel by singer and writer Masashi Sada, the plot revolves around a young man named Kyohei Nagashima (Okada) who has felt emotionally detached due to a traumatic incident in his high school days. However, when he takes a job sorting through the personal belongings of the deceased, he’s forced to face the concept of life and death. He eventually develops a relationship with a co-worker named Yuki Kubota (Eikura), which allows him to open up a little more, but he soon discovers she has a dark past of her own.
This marks the fourth of Sada’s works to get a film adaptation, after “Shoro Nagashi”, “Gege”, and “Bizan”, and it’s being produced by the people behind the tearjerkers April Bride and Life: Tears in...
Based on a novel by singer and writer Masashi Sada, the plot revolves around a young man named Kyohei Nagashima (Okada) who has felt emotionally detached due to a traumatic incident in his high school days. However, when he takes a job sorting through the personal belongings of the deceased, he’s forced to face the concept of life and death. He eventually develops a relationship with a co-worker named Yuki Kubota (Eikura), which allows him to open up a little more, but he soon discovers she has a dark past of her own.
This marks the fourth of Sada’s works to get a film adaptation, after “Shoro Nagashi”, “Gege”, and “Bizan”, and it’s being produced by the people behind the tearjerkers April Bride and Life: Tears in...
- 2/22/2011
- Nippon Cinema
Nanako Matsushima (36) and Seung-heon Song (33) are set to star in an Asian remake of Jerry Zucker’s smash hit 1990 film Ghost, taking over the roles originally played by Demi Moore and the late Patrick Swayze. In the Hollywood version, Swayze played a man who was killed during an attempted mugging and remained on earth as a ghost to warn his girlfriend (Moore) of an impending danger. The Asian version will be set in Japan.
Probably best known outside of Japan for starring in the 1998 horror film “Ring”, former full-time fashion model Matsushima truly made a name for herself domestically in 2002 by playing Matsu in the enormously popular Ntv drama “Toshiie and Matsu”. In 2007, she proved herself to be a capable lead film actress with a poignant performance in Isshin Inudo’s “Bizan”.
Her co-star, Seung-heon Song, has enjoyed a resurgence in popularity over the past few years following an embarrassing...
Probably best known outside of Japan for starring in the 1998 horror film “Ring”, former full-time fashion model Matsushima truly made a name for herself domestically in 2002 by playing Matsu in the enormously popular Ntv drama “Toshiie and Matsu”. In 2007, she proved herself to be a capable lead film actress with a poignant performance in Isshin Inudo’s “Bizan”.
Her co-star, Seung-heon Song, has enjoyed a resurgence in popularity over the past few years following an embarrassing...
- 5/12/2010
- Nippon Cinema
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