Ito Hideaki and Sakaguchi Kenji will pair up in the TV Asahi spring 2013 drama "Doubles ~ Futari no Keiji" which begins its run from April in the Thursdays 9pm timeslot. This is the first time in 10 years since the two of them last worked together in 2002 FujiTV drama "Tentai Kansoku" but they have been in contact all this while despite not working together. Ever since then, the same-age friends who were both born in 1975 had gone on to achieve success in their signature roles i.e. Senzaki Daisuke in the Umizaru series for Ito and Asada Ryuutarou in the Iryu series for Sakaguchi. As they are both tall and well-built, they tend to get mistaken for each other especially when they go to the suburbs. Ito related that he was once told by someone that he was touched for "Iryu" and Ito could only manage a "thank you" without correcting the mistake. Sakaguchi also had similar experiences because he was once identified as the guy who appeared in Umizaru. Ito went the extra mile to "impersonate" as Sakaguchi by signing the latter's name at a restaurant when someone identified him wrongly again.
This time round, they play police detectives who work together to fight crime in the Shinjuku area where Ito plays Yamashita, a happy-go-lucky guy in contrast with the serious yet passionate Tashiro played by Sakaguchi. Both of them expressed hope that this drama would become as famous as TV Asahi's signature detective series "Aibou" and make it to the silver screen one day.
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Yomiuri Hochi
Now this tandem of two hot older actors Ito and Sakaguchi I wanna watch.
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