Makiko Ozon, Hiroro Murakami and others joined "Relief Grocery Store"
"Relief Grocery Store" teaser poster (designed by Makoto Shinkai)
The 1905 movie network news adapted from the Best-selling novel "Relief Grocery Store" by Japanese suspense writer Keigo Higashino announced the latest supporting cast today, and six powerful actors, namely Makiko Owano, Hiroshi Murakami, Hayashita, Ryukiko Narimaki, Muriko Munwaki, and Sage Hagihara, joined in.
Keigo Higashino's novel has a cumulative circulation of more than 5 million copies worldwide and has been praised as "the most moving work in the history of Higashino's works." It tells the story of a grocery store on a secluded street, just write down the complaint and throw it into the front door of the store, and get an answer in the milk carton behind the store the next day. Young people from rebellious worlds write letters of confusion into the grocery store, and wonderful things happen.
The live-action film was directed by Takaichi Hiroki, the director of "Goodbye Kabukicho" and "A Piece of Cake", and written by Hiroshi Saito, who collaborated again after "The Bride of the Last Month of Life"; by Hey! Say！ Jump member Ryosuke Yamada plays the male protagonist Toshiya, Nishida Toshiyuki plays the grocery store owner Yuji Nanaya, Makiko Owano will play the key character Harumi, and Hirohiro Murakami and Hayashi will play Shota and Yukihei who grew up with Atsuya in the orphanage.
Set in 2012 and 1980, Atsuya, who did something bad, escapes with his friends to an old grocery store, finds that someone in the mailbox of the grocery store seems to have put a letter in the middle of the night, and opens it to find that it is a letter sent to the relief grocery store 32 years ago hoping to solve the problem. Dun ye and his party wrote a reply for the shopkeeper while doubting, and got a reply from the other party. Dun, who has never lived a serious life, has also changed his mood in the process of being exposed to the troubles of different people and seriously replying to letters.
It is reported that at present, the Chinese version of the film has also been officially approved, and Wanda Pictures and Hong Kong Emperor Pictures have obtained the remake copyright of the work. The Japanese version of "Relief Grocery Store" is scheduled to be released nationwide in Japan on September 23, 2017.