Cast revealed for Katsuhito Ishii’s live-action “Smuggler”
Posted by Kevin Ouellette on November 24, 2010 11:42pm EDT (1 year ago)
Filed under: Crime, Future releases, Cast updates, Movie announcements
Back on October 25th, a live-action film adaptation of Shohei Manabe’s manga Smuggler was announced in Kodansha’s Afternoon magazine. Earlier today, further details were revealed.
The film is being directed by Katsuhito Ishii (Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl, The Taste of Tea) and will feature Satoshi Tsumabuki in the lead role. In Tsumabuki’s last film, Akunin, he played a character described as a “vacant youth”, and his this new role would also seem to fit that description. He plays a young man named Ryosuke who, frustrated with fruitlessly chasing his dream of becoming an actor, takes a part-time job at a pachinko parlor. He soon racks up a massive debt and is forced to take a lucrative smuggling job, which leads to even more trouble.
As it turns out, the smuggling job consists of disposing of corpses to earn 50,000 yen per successful “delivery”. Unfortunately for Ryosuke, his involvement puts him at odds with both sides of an escalating gang war.
Masatoshi Nagase plays Ryoksuke’s supervisor for these excursions—a man of few words. Yasuko Matsuyuki plays a clever underworld company chief who always dons gothic and lolita fashion. Hikari Mitsushima plays the wife of a yakuza boss. Rounding out the eclectic cast are actors Masanobu Ando, Fumiyo Kohinata, and longtime Ishii favorite Tatsuya Gashuin.
“Smuggler” began filming on the first of this month and is expected to wrap in early December. Release is slated for fall 2011.
Consequently, the television drama adaptation of Manbe’s other major work, “Yamikin Ushijima-kun” starring Takayuki Yamada, is currently airing on TBS.
Sources: Tokyograph, Eiga.com
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