22-year-old actress Erika Toda has been cast as the female lead in Go Shichitaka’s upcoming film Dog×Police.
The film revolves around a special division of the police force which uses trained dogs in cases of terrorism, violent crime, and rescue missions after large-scale natural disasters. Toda will play a police dog trainer named Natsuki Mizuno. Her character will be partnered with co-star Hayato Ichihara’s character, a fellow trainer named Yusaku Hayakawa.
According to Toda, it’s important to convey the strength and selflessness of these dogs, especially with some of the dogs from their film shoot now out working in disaster-affected areas. “Now that Tohoku earthquake has happened, five dogs have been risking their lives to rescue people,” she said. “I felt a sense of duty that the passion, daily effort, and struggles of handlers be conveyed.”
Ichihara, Saburo Tokito, and a few other cast members were...
The film revolves around a special division of the police force which uses trained dogs in cases of terrorism, violent crime, and rescue missions after large-scale natural disasters. Toda will play a police dog trainer named Natsuki Mizuno. Her character will be partnered with co-star Hayato Ichihara’s character, a fellow trainer named Yusaku Hayakawa.
According to Toda, it’s important to convey the strength and selflessness of these dogs, especially with some of the dogs from their film shoot now out working in disaster-affected areas. “Now that Tohoku earthquake has happened, five dogs have been risking their lives to rescue people,” she said. “I felt a sense of duty that the passion, daily effort, and struggles of handlers be conveyed.”
Ichihara, Saburo Tokito, and a few other cast members were...
- 4/12/2011
- Nippon Cinema
Film producer and screenwriter Norio Enomoto has uploaded a trailer for an upcoming film he’s written and directed called A Sky Too Far to See (Mienai hodo no Tooku no Sora o).
The film stars Ryu Morioka (To Walk Beside You) as Ken, a young film student hard at work on his graduation film project. However, the female lead, Risa (Natsuki Okamoto)—who had been at odds with Ken regarding the final scene—dies in an accident right before they get a chance to shoot it. Thus, the film is shelved.
A year later, Ken meets Risa’s twin sister, Yoko. He decides to re-shoot the final scene of his movie with her in the lead, but once again things don’t go quite according to plan.
The film’s youth-slanted main cast also includes Daichi Watanabe (The Shikisoku Generation), Ichiro Hashimoto (son of Koji Yakusho), Takahiro Sato (The Taste of Tea), Tomoya Maeno,...
The film stars Ryu Morioka (To Walk Beside You) as Ken, a young film student hard at work on his graduation film project. However, the female lead, Risa (Natsuki Okamoto)—who had been at odds with Ken regarding the final scene—dies in an accident right before they get a chance to shoot it. Thus, the film is shelved.
A year later, Ken meets Risa’s twin sister, Yoko. He decides to re-shoot the final scene of his movie with her in the lead, but once again things don’t go quite according to plan.
The film’s youth-slanted main cast also includes Daichi Watanabe (The Shikisoku Generation), Ichiro Hashimoto (son of Koji Yakusho), Takahiro Sato (The Taste of Tea), Tomoya Maeno,...
- 3/1/2011
- Nippon Cinema
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