Abe Sadao to star in new Kudo Kankuro movie "Shazai no Ousama"

Abe Sadao, Kudo Kankuro and director Mizuta Nobuo will work together for the third time in the new Kudo Kankuro movie "Shazai no Ousama" (The King of Apologies) which is due to be shown from 28 September next year. The trio had previously worked on 2007's Haaaan!! and 2009's Nakumonka.

This time, Abe will still be the lead as Kuroshima who is a professional apology advisor who helps people apologise in the best way possible. Besides Abe, co-stars include Inoue Mao, Takenouchi Yutaka, Matsuyuki Yasuko, Okada Masaki, Ono Machiko, Takahashi Katsumi, Arakawa Yoshiyoshi, Hamada Gaku, Ono Takehiko and Hamada Mari.

Inoue plays the role of Noriko, a young lady who has just come back to Japan after spending most of her life overseas and is forced to compensate a gangster-like man with a huge sum of money when she causes a traffic accident. Okada plays an employee of a lingerie company who's sued for sexual harrassment by an OL played by Ono. Takahashi plays a big-name actor who has to apologise in public for a scandal involving his son while Matsuyuki plays another big-name actress who is his ex-wife. Takenouchi plays a lawyer who has to apologise for a misdeed in the past which caused his daughter anguish. Last but not least, Arakawa plays a movie producer who mistakenly gets the prince of some country to act as an extra in his film and ends up having to apologise for that.

Source: Sanspo