Sakurai Sho and Miyazaki Aoi will reprise their roles in the movie "Kamisama no Karte 2" which follows on the heels of the first instalment released in August last year. The first movie had gross ticket sales of about JPY 1.9bn when it was released in cinemas. The sequel will be shown in 2014 and will feature new cast members including Fujiwara Tatsuya who plays a rival to Sakurai's character.
The story is based on a series of 3 novels published by doctor-cum-writer Natsukawa Sousuke which has sold 2.2 million copies to date and the third book was just published in August 2012. The movie sequel will be based on book 2.
Sakurai plays the role of Kurihara Ichito who works in a local hospital at Matsumoto, Nagano, and has to deal with the struggles of an inadequate medical system. His university classmate Shindo Tatsuya (Fujiwara) gets transferred from Tokyo to work at the same hospital as Ichito and the change in Shindo is unmistakable. When they used to be students, Shindo had this mindset that nothing comes before his duty as a doctor which is what Ichito is trying to do now. However, the Shindo now values his family more than anything and would knock off on time to spend time with his wife (Fukiishi Kazue) and young daughter. This causes the two of them to have differing views on what is the correct attitude towards medical work. Just then, their superior Nukita (Emoto Akira) falls ill all of a sudden... Meanwhile, Ichito's wife Haruna (Miyazaki) who discovered that she was pregnant at the end of the last movie, will undergo the pregnancy and childbirth stages in the sequel. Other co-stars include Harada Taizo who was also in the first movie and new additions like Ichige Yoshie who plays Nukita's wife and Hamada Gaku who is Ichito's new neighbour.
Source: Sanspo
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