FROM TOKYOGRAPH:
Tomohisa Yamashita of NEWS has been given his first starring role in a movie. The film is based on the "Kurosagi" drama series that aired on TBS last spring. Yamashita and several others, including Maki Horikita and Yui Ichikawa, will reprise their roles from the drama. Yasuharu Ishii has been named as director, and the film is slated for release next spring.
Yamashita Tomohisa’s first movie performance!
Kurosagi returns!
On the 6th, we discovered that TBS’s drama “Kurosagi” which aired last April with NewS’s Yamashita Tomohisa as a swindler, will become a movie. This is Yamasita’s first movie role. He will be a swindler who coolly deceives other swindlers who have evil intentions. Horikita Maki and Ichikawa Yui will also be acting in this. The drama had an overall viewing average of 15.7 %, and with this popularity, it seems that “Kurosagi” will have an interesting plot to reveal next spring.
Yamashita’s break came with his first leading role in a drama, and this time, it’ll be his first leading role in a movie.
“Kurosagi” is a hit comic that has sold over 350 thousand sets. The swindlers who deceive others with words are the “shirosagi”. The swindlers who play with people’s feelings are “akasagi”. And the one who only aims to take large sums of money from shiro and akasagi is a Kurosaki, Yamashita’s character, who goes by the name of Kurosagi. This enjoyable human empathy drama’s popularity is bringing it back to the big screen.
The drama’s producer says, “I originally wanted to make a movie. It shows the bitter regret that people have when people they trust betray them. As they are deceived, how people trust others. I want to bring out people’s acts and souls as well as the human nature."
On Yamashita, he compliments, “He sticks perfectly to the main character of the drama, and he becomes a hero that rids the world of bad people”. He adds, “He’s matured since then, and it seems as if he’s deepened his perspective. If he can successfully bring that to life on screen, he’ll outdo “Sting” (a 1973 movie on a swindler).”
Yamashita: “I was hoping for a movie role, and to be able to be the leading role in the drama was really worthwhile”, he says thankfully. “In this Kurosagi role, the character is totally opposite of the drama I am doing now (Fuji Television’s “Proposal Daisakusen” in which he is a man who cannot confess his love to his childhood friend) so I will try my best to return to Kurosaki. Since this is my first movie, I will put lots of effort into it and do my best.”
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