Yuuki Ogoe cast in movie “The Werewolf Game: Death Game’s Operator”

Yuuki Ogoe is cast in movie “The Werewolf Game: Death Game’s Operator” (literal title). Yuuki Ogoe is the first male actor to play the main character in the “The Werewolf Game” series of movies. The movie is based on novel “Jinro Gemu: Death Game no Uneinin” by Ryo Kawakami and he will also sit in the director’s chair to direct the film.

Plot Synopsis by AsianWiki: People are gathered by recruitment or being kidnapped.These people take part in the Werewolf Game. The participants must risk their lives in the game, while wealthy people wager on the winners and losers of the game. Masamune (Yuuki Ogoe) works as an operator of the game. He finds out that female high school student Yuzuki Natsume is one of the participants in the Werewolf Game. Masamune once taught Yuzuki Natsume as a private tutor. He wants to save her and he is willing to risk his life to do so.

“The Werewolf Game: Death Game’s Operator” will be released sometime this autumn in Japan.