First-day screening of movie "Gekijouban ATARU THE FIRST LOVE & THE LAST KILL"

The first-day screening event of movie "Gekijouban ATARU THE FIRST LOVE & THE LAST KILL" was held at TOHO Cinemas Roppongi Hills on 14 September which was attended by cast members Nakai Masahiro, Horikita Maki, Kitamura Kazuki and Kuriyama Chiaki as well as the director Kimura Hisashi. The movie is now showing at 304 cinemas nationwide.

Nakai revealed that when he first started filming the drama series back in April last year, it took him at least 20 seconds to get into the mood but he can do it in 2 seconds now. However, he lamented that age is catching up on him and he doesn't feel that he has that innocence trait present in Ataru so the filming of the movie made him feel that it was getting more difficult to act as Ataru. As this is the first movie adaptation from a drama for Nakai, he also expressed his view that this movie should be the last in the ATARU series especially since the sub title of the movie also said so. However, when faced with cries of disappointment from the audience about the impending end of the series, Nakai said that there might be a chance that ATARU may follow the Umizaru pattern i.e. saying that a movie is the last installment of the series but still coming up with a sequel later which made the audience clap and cheer.

Source: Eiga.com