Kyoko Fukada and Kippei Shiina to star in “Renai Gikyoku: Watashi to Koi ni Ochite Kudasai”
Posted by Kevin Ouellette on June 14, 2010 7:48pm EDT (2 years ago)
Filed under: Comedy, Future releases, Cast updates, Movie announcements
Hard to believe, but popular actress Kyoko Fukada has not had top billing in a film since Mayumi Miyasaka’s “Tenshi”, which was released over 4 years ago. Today comes word that Fukada will be making her return to leading lady status the hard way in Renai Gikyoku: Watashi to Koi ni Ochite Kudasai (literally “Love Drama: Please Fall in Love with Me”), playing a role consisting of 3 distinct parts.
The film is an adaptation of playwright Shoji Kokami’s hit stage play “Renai Gikyoku”, and Kokami himself will direct. Fukuda will play a popular television screenwriter named Mayumi Taniyama and actor Kippei Shiina will play a hapless producer named Mukai in his first purely comedic role.
Taniyama is suffering from writer’s block, so when Mukai enthusiastically asks her to write a script for him, she asks him to fall in love with her.
Fukada’s role is broken down three parts as the story bounces back and forth between fantasy and reality: the real-life screenwriter selfishly abusing a man for her own purposes, the lonely housewife in her script, and the gorgeous woman in the fictional housewife’s script.
The rest of the cast includes Takashi Tsukamoto, Masatoshi Nakamura, Misa Shimizu, Masahiko Nishimura, and Jun Inoue.
“Renai Gikyoku” will begin its gradual nation-wide release in Japan on September 25, 2010.
Source: Cinema Today
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