Rosa Kato trades in her bubbly persona for suicidal tendencies in ‘Tengoku wa Mada Tooku’

The official website for Masahiko Nagasawa‘s Tengoku wa Mada Tooku (roughly “Heaven is still far away") is now live and features a full-length trailer. In the film, which is based on a best-selling Maiko Seo novel, Zexy CM girl Rosa Kato plays Chizuru, an office lady who’s literally given up on life. Unlucky in work and in love, Chizuru makes the decision that she’s going to end it all in a place she doesn’t know. She takes a taxi to a remote area and checks into a small bed and breakfast situated in the heart of a mountain. The proprietor of the bed and breakfast, a self-sufficient, upbeat man named Tamura (Yoshimi Tokui) greets her when she arrives. Over the course of her stay time seems to stand still as Tamura and other local villagers gradually restore Chizuru’s will to live.

Probably best known in Japan for her CM work, the half-Japanese, half-Italian Kato has also appeared in films like Smile and Night Time Picnic, and she will have a prominent role in Toshio Lee’s upcoming rock ‘n’ roll comedy, Detroit Metal City.

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“Tengoku wa Mada Tooku” will be released in October.

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