After the event was suspended, he starred in a Japanese drama for the first time, and played a brother and sister with Jun Arimura, and cooperated again after 8 years

▲ Kazuya Ninomiya also plays the Japanese Navy Minor Sasuke Mizuyohei (left), jun Arimura plays his sister, elementary school teacher Sokiko Sumizu

(Fisherman's Bread / Translation) According to the news on the 16th, Arashi member Kazuya Ninomiya (38 years old) will star in the Fuji TV New Year SP drama "The Adventure of submarine Cappelini" that will be broadcast from January 3 to 9 p.m. next year. Jun Arimura (28 years old) will play the role of the heroine, that is, the role of Ninomiya's sister, which is the second cooperation between the two after eight years. In addition, the work is also the first TV series starring Ninomiya since the end of last year's Arashi activities.

The work tells the story of the friendship and love that transcends national borders developed after the fateful encounter between the Japanese Navy Minor Sasuke Yohei played by Ninomiya and the Italians in World War II. Arimura plays the elementary school teacher who is confessed by the Italians, and is also the sister of Yohei Susumizu, Sokiko Suzumi. In this work, Ninomiya will wear a military uniform again after a period of 16 years since 2006's Letter from Iwo Jima. He will also challenge italian lines and songs. Commenting on the work, Ninomiya said, "Although it is a wartime story, I think it is also a work that can make people think about the relationship between people. Acting with Italian actors was also my first experience, so it was very fresh. ”

The collaboration between Ninomiya and Arimura is the second time since the 2014 Japanese tv series Even the Weak Can Win. In 2017, the two served as the hosts of the red and white groups at the "NHK Red and White Song Club". For the two to cooperate again after many years, Ninomiya said, "Although there has been no opportunity to act together in these years, we will meet in variety shows from time to time, so there is no special feeling of nostalgia for 'long time not to see'." Arimura said, "Although the cooperation in film and television dramas has really been many years, because the Ninomiya around me has not become different from before, I can also complete the shooting on the spot with peace of mind." However, the topic between the two of us has changed a bit, and I personally feel that time has flown by, and I feel quite deeply about it."

This work is a TV series that Ninomiya has starred in for four years since the April 2018 issue of TBS Station's "Black Hemostatic Forceps". Ninomiya said, "I hope that the audience can experience the world through this work." Rather than the war itself, I would like people to notice places like ' there are still such people in the world' and so on."

Ninomiya also has starring films such as "TANG タング" and "Testament from the Shelter (Provisional Translation)" that are about to be released, and next year will be the year of his full return as an actor. According to FujiDai, Ninomiya mastered the Italian pronunciation perfectly in "The Adventures of the Submarine Cappelini", and the perfection of its pronunciation made the Italian actors praise it. The series was directed by Yasuo Baba of HOICHOI PRODUCTIONS, known for his 1987 film Journey to snowy mountains, and was the first TV series director he challenged. The script is the original work of Yoshimitsu Sawamoto, an advertising curator known for works such as SOFTBANK's "Shirato family".