Japanese remake of Nine Knives "Those Years" starring Asuka Saito and Hiroki Yamada
Japan decided to remake the nine-knife work "Those Years, the Girl We Chased Together", directed by Yasuo Hasegawa, screenwriter of "Blue Bird", played by Asuka Saito, a member of Nogizaka 46, played Shen Jiayi, and Hiroki Yamada, who played Kanenosuke Ikezawa in the Japanese version of "A Kiss and a Promise", played the role of Ke Jingteng. In addition, Hotaru Matsumoto, Sakumoto, Naoki Kunishima, Keiyuki Nakata, and Ryosuke Yousa participated.
The Japanese version of the story is set in 21st-century Japan, and the film tells the romantic story between Japanese high school student Kosuke Mizushima (Hiroki Yamada) and honors student Makoto Hayase (Saito Asuka).
Hiroki Yamada said that the original work touched him a lot, so starring in the Japanese version of "Those Years" put a lot of pressure on him, but he hopes to be able to convey this feeling intact. In addition, this is the first time that 19-year-old Saito Asuka has acted in a movie, and she said that she will do her best.
Based on the nine-knife novel and written and directed by himself, the youth film "Those Years" was released in 2011, starring Ke Zhendong and Chen Yanxi, and produced by Chai Zhiping, which won the 31st Academy Awards for Best Cross-Strait Chinese Film and earned 75.8 million yuan at the box office in the mainland, setting a record for the box office of a Taiwanese film in the mainland at that time. The film grossed NT$170 million in Taiwan that year, winning the title of local film.
The Japanese version of "Those Years, the Girl We Chased Together" is expected to start in late October and be released in the fall of 2018.
Yoshinaga Sayuri and Masato Sakai's "Kitano Sakura Mori" released the official version of the trailer
At present, Koyuri Yoshinaga, who is known as the "National Treasure of Japan", and Yojiro Takita, who has filmed "Entering the Mortuary", have cooperated with the new film "Kitano SakuraMori" to expose the official version of the trailer. In the trailer, in the cold winter, Eren Tetsu (Yoshinaga Koyuri) and his second son Shujiro (Sakai Masahito) walk in the snow, surviving with difficulty and tenacity.
In addition to Yoshinaga Sayuri and "Bar Uncle" Masato Sakai, other franchised actors include Ryoko Shinohara, Hiroshi Sato, Hiroshi Abe, Reiko Takashima, Masatoshi Nakamura, and Tsurutsu bottle of Kofukutei. It is worth mentioning that the movie "Kitano Sakura Mori" is the second collaboration between Yoshinaga Koyuri and Masato Sakai after co-dubbing in "Osamu Tezuka's Buddha: Beautiful Red Desert".
The film depicts the life trajectory of the mother and son who depended on each other in the northern land from World War II to the end of the war for nearly 30 years, telling the story of the mother Jiang Liantie who took her two sons to go east and west in a cruel environment and raised them to adulthood, and the second son Shujiro grew up to be successful in the United States, returned to Japan as a returnee, and took his mother to live with him. After his mother suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder after the war, Shujiro decided to return to Hokkaido with his mother.
The film is the final chapter of the "Kitano Trilogy" filmed in Hokkaido after "Year Zero in the North" and "Canary of the North", and the heroine of the "Kitano Trilogy" is the Japanese evergreen actress Koyuri Yoshinaga, which is also the 120th film in her life. The first two parts of the trilogy are "Year Zero in the North" released in 2005 and "Canary of the North" released in 2012, and the two films are directed by directors Yuki Tsuneho and Shunji Sakamoto, respectively.
The film was launched on February 16 this year and will be released in Japan in March 2018.