28-year-old actor Osamu Mukai will get his first lead film role in Kenta Fukasaku’s Bokutachi wa Sekai wo Kaeru Koto ga Dekinai.
The film is based on a self-published novel by 26-year-old Kota Hada in which he relayed his experiences helping to fund and build a school in Cambodia with some classmates from Nippon Medical School. The students learned that 1,500,000 yen could pay for a 5-classroom school in rural Cambodia, so they traveled there and began volunteering in an area still scarred by civil war.
Mukai will play Hada; his castmates include Tori Matsuzaka (22), Eri Murakawa (23), Tasuku Emoto (22), and Masataka Kubota (22).
Filming began in Tokyo early this week and the production will move on to Cambodia in mid-November. A theatrical release is slated for fall 2011.
Sources: Tokyograph, Sankei Sports...
The film is based on a self-published novel by 26-year-old Kota Hada in which he relayed his experiences helping to fund and build a school in Cambodia with some classmates from Nippon Medical School. The students learned that 1,500,000 yen could pay for a 5-classroom school in rural Cambodia, so they traveled there and began volunteering in an area still scarred by civil war.
Mukai will play Hada; his castmates include Tori Matsuzaka (22), Eri Murakawa (23), Tasuku Emoto (22), and Masataka Kubota (22).
Filming began in Tokyo early this week and the production will move on to Cambodia in mid-November. A theatrical release is slated for fall 2011.
Sources: Tokyograph, Sankei Sports...
- 10/22/2010
- Nippon Cinema
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