Ikuta Toma's first leading role in movie

Popular young actor Toma Ikuta (24) will star in a new movie directed by Genjiro Arato, the producer responsible for the award-winning "Zigeunerweisen" in 1980. The film is "Ningen Shikkaku," based on the Osamu Dazai novel of the same name. Also known in English as "No Longer Human," the book is generally considered to be Dazai's greatest masterpiece.

Ikuta has recently had major roles in several television series, but this role will actually be his first time appearing in a movie. Published in 1948, the semi-autobiographical "Ningen Shikkaku" was Dazai's last completed work before he successfully committed suicide. Despite selling millions of copies, the story has never been adapted to screen. However, this year is the 100th anniversary of Dazai's birth, prompting the decision to create a movie.

Filming starts in July, with a release projected for spring 2010.

Akanishi Jin first new movie 2010

It is announced that Akanishi Jin will have his first movie role in a new movie called “BANDAGE”. This new and exciting movie is directed by a music producer named Takeshi Kobayashi (music producer) and written by Shunji Iwai. The film is set to release in 2010, but the main cast was already revealed!

Leading the list of names are Kie Kitano, Kengo Kora, and Yuki Shibamoto. Nobuaki Kaneko (the drummer of RIZE), Hideyuki Kasahara, model Anne, Ayumi Ito, and Kazuo Zaitsu have also been cast.

The film, set in the early 1990s during Japan's "band boom" era, will be the first fictional film directed by music producer Takeshi Kobayashi. In the movie, Akanishi plays Natsu, the leader and vocalist of a 4-member rock band called LANDS. The story follows the ups and downs of the members' friendship as they aim for fame. In addition to directing, Kobayashi is producing the film and handling the music. He was chosen as director by Shunji Iwai, who wrote the movie's script. The pair have worked together before - Kobayashi did the music for Iwai's "Swallowtail" (1996) and "All About Lily Chou-Chou" (2001), and most recently they are both involved with Eriko Kitagawa's "Harufuwei." Kobayashi previously directed the 1995 documentary "es" about the group Mr.Children, but this will be his first time in charge of a movie with actors.

Tegoshi Yuya starring in new movie!

Tegoshi pulled it off to get in a new movie directed by an American director (Hans Canosa), this movie is called Nakushita Kioku allong with many other actors (who some of them are American-jin) Yuya is going to star in this movie!

You probably already noticed that in this movie there are some American actors as well.

Such as Emma Robberts known from the television program Unfabulous, and Anton Yelchin also known from Star Trek as Pavel Chekov.

List of actors:
Maki Horikita

Matsuyama Kenichi

Yuya Tegoshi

Anton Yelchin

Emma Roberts

Mirei Kiritan

Misa Shimizu

Here are some scans of tegoshi and maki during the movie

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Filming started this week. The movie is expected to be released in 2009, hopefully followed by a U.S. release in 2010.