"Holy Youth" exposed the cast of Higashi Out of Chang Dai-inya will join too

Higashi Izumi Masadae stills and prototype Habu Yoshiharu

In 1905, popular actor Masada Higashiide and others will join the character of the genius Shogi Matsuyama Seiji's short-lived legendary work "Sacred Youth" starring Kenichi Matsuyama, and play the role of Habu Zenji, challenging the characters at the peak of the current Shogi king's landing, although it is quite difficult, Higashi Izumi Changda has conducted a deep study on this. The film was directed by Yoshitaka Mori and written by Kosuke Izumi.

The film is based on the debut novel of Yoshio Osaki, a writer who won the 13th New Wave Academy Award, and received a 5-star rating on the Amazon book list. The story tells that in 1994, Murayama left the famous teacher Nobuo Mori, who had been following him since the age of 15, and went to Tokyo in order to win the highest title in shogi, "Celebrity". At an early age, Murayama suffered from the evil disease of diabetic kidney hardening, and although Murayama often felt that death was imminent, he chose to dedicate his life to the cause of shogi. Yoshiharu Habu, who was the same age as Murayama, had achieved feats in shogi as never before, and Murayama was stimulated and continued to challenge. At this time, Murayama had discovered that he had cancer in his body, but he endured the pain and was determined to continue the shogi to the end.

Commenting on the role of Masadai Higashiide, he said: "Habu Yoshiharu has won the championship seven times, and the glasses he himself wore at that time lent me to perform well, which can be said to be a great luck. Let's all look forward to it. Naturally, the film's point of view is the duel between Murayama Seiji and Habu Yoshiharu, where Kenichi Matsuyama and Masadai Higashiide challenged to recite chess and filmed for up to 2 hours. He played Higashi Izumi Masadae with Ken Matsuyama and said: "He is a senior I particularly respect, and the time he spent acting was a treasure for me. ”

Habu Yoshiharu expressed great appreciation for the opening of the film, which tells the story of Murayama, "My role is also a little embarrassed in it, but I think it is a matter of honor to play Higashi Out Ofada. In addition, director Yoshitaka Mori also praised Higashi Izumi Masada: "Based on the heart of Habu Yoshiji's vision, immersed in the study of chess and spirituality, and perfectly interpreted and fought against Habu Zenji's professional players, it can be said that this movie is his best performance." ”

In addition, Nobuo Mori, who lives with Seiji Murayama in Osaka and is also his teacher, is played by Masaya Nakagawa, his mother Tomiko Murayama is portrayed by Keiko Takeshita, and Shota Someya plays his disciple Egawa. Yasuda Akira, Toshiyuki Tsunemoto, Toshiyuki Kitami and Michitaka Tsutsui joined the supporting roles.

It is reported that "Sacred Youth" will be released nationwide in Japan this autumn.