Masato Sakai and Yuko Takeuchi set to co-star in “Golden Slumber”

Here’s a project that should have its own TV drama-style correlation chart, but not for the characters—for the cast and crew. Yoshihiro Nakamura will be directing a film adaptation of Kotaro Isaka’s 2007 novel, Golden Slumber. This will be the third Isaka adaptation for Nakumura, who also directed 2007’s The Foreign Duck, the Native Duck and God in a Coin Locker and 2009’s Fish Story. Masato Sakai and Yuko Takeuchi will co-star after having recently starred together in The Triumphant General Rouge, which also happened to be directed by Nakamura. If all that wasn’t confusing enough, Sakai had previously worked with Nakamura in the 2008 comedy The Two in Tracksuits, and will be appearing in another Isaka adaptation, A Life, in June of 2009.

According to Tokyograph, Sakai will play a man framed for the assassination of the Japanese Prime Minister. While on the run, his former girlfriend (Takeuchi) assists him.

Shooting will begin next month, and distributor Toho is expected to release it nation-wide in Japan sometime in 2010.

Source: Cinema Today

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