Ken Sato starring "Who" Arimura Kashiro, Niyodo Fumi member

1905 Movie News The best-selling novel "Who" by Asai Liao, which won the 148th Naoki Award, will be brought to the big screen, and the film will be filmed by Daisuke Miura, director of "Vortex of Love", and Ken Sato will star. At the same time, young powerful factions such as Fumi Nijido, Jun Arimura, Shoko Sugata, and Shosei Okada joined in, and the film lineup was luxurious and exciting. The film focuses on the relationship between the five peers who are trying to participate in the inauguration activities, and the language spoken in the SNS and interviews hides their true voices and constantly changes through their own consciousness.

In mid-February, Ken Sato and other actors wore their uniforms and sat in the Toho Corporation conference room in Hibiya, Tokyo. This is a work linked to the inaugural activities, and the personnel department of Toho Corporation, which distributed and produced this film, fully cooperated with the simulation experience. The actors present had to go through multiple job simulations such as written tests (30 points), group interviews (15-20 points), group discussions (50 points), and 5-on-1 person interviews (5-10 minutes).

It is reported that the launch plan of the film began in 2013, and the original asai Liao also participated in the selection of directors, actors and scripts, and finally the film was officially filmed from February 26. Toho's producer, Yuliang Ishikuro, told the film: "In 2012, when the original work was published, then and now, the form of inaugural activities is constantly changing. The film "Who" is about to show the changes in the meticulous composition of this, and the script has also been discussed many times with Asai Liao himself. ”

Director Daisuke Miura has directed the acting unit, and the self-written and self-directed "Vortex of Love" has been widely praised by the media. Talking about the filming of the film, he said: "The scene where 5 people gathered together was rehearsed for 3 consecutive days from morning to night, and even the scene of the same shot took 2 hours to study on the scene. ”

Ken Sato, who plays takuto Ninomiya, the protagonist of the film, who is good at analysis, said: "Under the guidance of director Miura and other actors, together with other actors, they worked wholeheartedly and conscientiously until the end. I'm very happy that this rather difficult original work was brought to the screen by a group of outstanding actors and crews, and what kind of picture it will be presented in the end, please stay tuned for the audience. ”

Sugata, who plays Takuto Kamiya, who plays Takuto who has no distractions and wants to get the company's internal determination, said: "Every day on the shooting scene, Ken Sato giggles and laughs, I am afraid that this has some deep meaning." (Laughs) The hunch that it's going to be fun, and I'm going to keep that hunch from disappearing to face the daily shooting. Mizuki, played by Jun Arimura, is Kotaro's predecessor and has a crush on Takuya, while Futama do playes Rika Hayakawa, who is "conscious" but always futile; Takayoshi Miyamoto, played by Shosei Okada, who declares that he does not participate in inauguration activities but cannot hide his anxiety, and Takara is also Rika's lover. In addition to the above personnel, Takayuki Yamada plays takuto's former senior in the acting group.

It is reported that "Who" will be released nationwide in Japan on October 15 this year.