Ooizumi Yo & Shibasaki Kou to star in Gekidan Hitori's first movie as a director "Seiten no Hekireki"

Gekidan Hitori will be directing his first movie which is based on the adaptation of his second novel "Seiten no Hekireki" and co-write the script for the movie with Hashibe Atsuko, the scriptwriter for "Freeter, Ie wo Kau". His first novel "Kagehinata ni Saku" which sold more than 1 million copies was also made into a movie in 2008 which featured Okada Junichi and Miyazaki Aoi.

This time, Ooizumi Yo and Shibasaki Kou will be the leads in "Seiten no Hekireki" where he plays a lonely and unpopular magician Haruo who goes back into time by accident and finds himself meeting his parents at Asakusa 40 years ago before he was born and allows him to find out his birth secret. Gekidan will play Haruo's father Shotaro during his younger days while Shibasaki will be Shotaro's girlfriend Etsuko who still sticks to him despite the fact that Shotaro has achieved nothing much in life.

Filming will begin in August at Asakusa in Tokyo and Ueda in Nagano and is expected to be wrapped up in September. The movie will be shown nationwide in 2014.

Source: Eiga.com