Japan premiere event of new movie "Mugen no Juunin"

The Japan premiere event of new movie "Mugen no Juunin" was held at Tokyo International Forum on 19 April which was attended by the director Miike Takashi and cast members Kimura Takuya, Sugisaki Hana, Fukushi Souta, Ichihara Hayato, Toda Erika and Mitsushima Shinnosuke. The movie will be shown in cinemas from 29 April.

During the event, it was announced that the movie has been selected to take part in the 70th Cannes International Film Festival's Out of Competition department so Miike, Kimura and Sugisaki will be attending the screening at the film festival together. Kimura commented that he is very happy that the film has been selected to take part in this film festival with such a long history and revealed that Miike called him personally to tell him the good news. As for Sugisaki who will be going to Cannes for the first time, she also expressed her joy at being able to participate in this movie and hopes that many people can watch it. For Miike, this will be his sixth film taking part in this film festival but this is the first time his movie is chosen as a special screening work.

Source: Eiga.com