Monday, April 03, 2017

Supporting cast lineup of new movie "Kekkon" announced

The supporting cast lineup of new movie "Kekkon" starring Dean Fujioka has been announced. The movie which is based on the 2012 novel by Naoki Award-winning author Inoue Areno, features Fujioka as a fraudster Koumi Kenji who dupes women into believing that he will marry them and cheats them of their money by taking on a variety of names and identities. During the process, he is assisted by his buddy Sengoku Ruriko (Shuuko) who was almost cheated by Koumi in the past. In order to find out the truth, Koumi's victims launch an investigation which leads them to Ruriko where they subsequently find out the real motive of Koumi.

Kanjiya Shihori will be playing Hatsune who is Koumi's wife. The women who are besotted with Koumi include Nakamura Eriko who plays Kudo Asami, an employee at a furniture shop, Matsumoto Wakana who plays Yoshioka Mana, an aspiring editor, Ando Tamae who plays a city office employee Hobara Hatoko. Furutachi Kanji will play a detective Yajima who tries to investigate Koumi with Hatoko while Manda Hisako will play a mysterious woman Hiragi Yasue who helps Koumi.

The theme song of this movie "Permanent Vacation" was specially written by Fujioka for this movie and will be sung by himself. The movie will be shown in cinemas from 24 Jun.

Sources: Sanspo / Eiga.com

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

what movie rating will be? like in US- R, PG-13, etc but in Japan, it's different

Chiaki said...

I haven't found anything about the movie's rating so I suppose the classification will be known by the time we get to the release date.