Shinji Aoyama returns to the director’s chair with “Tokyo Koen”
Posted by Kevin Ouellette on November 25, 2010 12:09am EDT (2 years ago)
Filed under: Drama, Future releases, Cast updates, Movie announcements
Director Shinji Aoyama (Eureka) is working on a new feature-length film titled Tokyo Koen (Tokyo Park). This will be his first feature-length project since he wrapped up his unofficial “Kitakyushu trilogy” with 2007’s “Sad Vacation”.
His latest film is based on a novel by Yukiya Shoji, who’s best known for his “Tokyo Bandwagon” series of short mystery stories. Haruma Miura plays a college student and aspiring photographer named Koji. One day he’s hired to follow a man’s girlfriend (Haruka Igawa) and take photos of her. Over time, this activity leads to gradual changes in Koji’s ambiguous relationships with women around him.
Nana Eikura plays the ex-girlfriend of Koji’s childhood friend and Konishi plays Koji’s new stepsister.
According to Aoyama, his return to directing has the feeling of something entirely fresh. The style of this new film is said to be nothing like Eureka, which made a splash at the 53rd Cannes Film Festival. “If it comes to the point where my work is assumed to have a certain color, I want to erase that and do something different,” the director said, “Because that’s my nature, and this time it seems to be something entirely different.”
“Tokyo Park” will be released nation-wide in Japan sometime in 2011.
Sources: Tokyograph, Eiga.com
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