Masaki Suda is cast the lead role and Anne Watanabe, Masaki Okada, Hikaru Tashiro, Takumi Saito and Kotaro Yoshida are cast supporting roles in movie “Cube.” The film is a remake of 1997 Canadian sci-fi horror film “Cube.” Filming for the remake began October, 2020 and finished November, 2020. Meanwhile, the first teaser trailer for the film has been added on AsianWiki. 6 character posters are added below.
“Cube” will be released October 22, 2021 in Japan.
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Song Ji-Hyo is cast for TVING drama series “Come to the Witch’s Restaurant” (literal title). Actress Nam Ji-Hyun has received an offer to play a co-lead female role and she is considering that offer. For the drama series, Song Ji-Hyo will play Zo Hee-Ra. She is a witch and she decides to open a restaurant that grants wishes to customers. TVING is an online streaming platform, that was originally created by CJ Entertainment, but was spun off as a separate entity around October, 2020 and partnered with JTBC. Currently, the online platform offers content from CJ Entertainment (tvN, OCN, Mnet, Onstyle, etc) and JTBC.
“Come to the Witch’s Restaurant” will consist of 8 episodes and air sometime this year.
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Teaser trailer #3 added for tvN drama series “Mouse” starring Lee Seung-Gi, Lee Hee-Joon, Kyung Soo-Jin & Park Joo-Hyun. Teaser trailer has Lee Seung-Gi’s voice appearing around the 31 second mark, as he asks “When will we stop this hunting?” Below are also the first still images of Lee Seung-Gi as Police Officer Jung Ba-Reum from the drama series.
“Mouse” will is now scheduled to first air March 3, 2021 in South Korea (takes over tvN’s Wed. & Thu. 10:30 PM time slot after “True Beauty“).
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IU is cast in movie “Broker” co-starring Song Kang-Ho, Gang Dong-Won, and Bae Doo-Na. The movie is written & directed by award winning director Hirokazu Koreeda. Details on IU’s character has not yet been revealed. The movie revolves around a baby box, where parents can abandon their babies. Filming for “Broker” will begin sometime this year.
Teaser trailer and two teaser posters added for upcoming movie “Shin Ultraman” starring Takumi Saito, Masami Nagasawa, & Hidetoshi Nishijima. The film, which is remake of TBS series “Ultraman,” is directed by Shinji Higuchi (“Attack on Titan“) & scripted by Hideaki Anno (“Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone“). The teaser trailer shows a crisis unfolding in Japan as a giant creatures lands on Earth and destroys everything in its path.
“Shin Ultraman” is now scheduled for release sometime this summer in Japan.
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Teaser trailer #2 added for tvN drama series “Vincenzo” starring Song Joong-Ki, Jeon Yeo-Bin, & TaecYeon. Narration/Dialogue in teaser trailer #2 goes (0:02) Song Joong-Ki “Evil is punished with evil,” (0:09) Yoo Jae-Myung “I hope that a real monster appears and wipes out all of these bad people,” (0:14) Kim Yeo-Jin “Don’t go overboard,” (0:16) Jeon Yeo-Bin “Let’s make a rule. Let’s not kill people,” (0:21) TaecYeon “That’s because I feel weird,” (0:22) Song Joong-Ki “I came to warn, not to negotiate. I will never forgive things like this crap.” Below are still images of the three lead performers.
“Vincenzo” first airs February 20, 2021 in South Korea.
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Hiroshi Abe and Takumi Kitamura are cast in movie “Tonbi.” The film is based on 2008 novel “Tonbi” by Kiyoshi Shigematsu and directed by Takahisa Zeze. The novel was previously adapted into 2012 NHK drama special “Tonbi” starring Shinichi Tsutsumi & Sosuke Ikematsu and 2013 TBS drama series “Tonbi” starring Masaaki Uchino & Takeru Satoh. Filming for the movie version began November 14, 2020 and finished December 24, 2020. Shooting took place in Okayama, Hyogo, and Kanto region in Japan.
“Tonbi” will be released sometime during 2022 in Japan.
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Teaser video & character posters added for movie “Tomorrow’s Dining Table” starring Miho Kanno, Mitsuki Takahata, & Machiko Ono. The character posters are of the three lead actresses. Caption on the character posters teases “Am I the one who killed a son?” Movie is based on 2016 novel “Ashita no Shokutaku” by Michiko Yazuki and directed by Takahisa Zeze.
“Tomorrow’s Dining Table” will be released spring, 2021 in Japan.
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Here’s two sets of teaser posters for upcoming movie “Mission: Possible” starring Kim Young-Kwang & Lee Sun-Bin. The movie is a crime film, with Kim Young-Kwang playing Detective Woo Soo-Han. Lee Sun-Bin plays Yoo Da-Hee. She hires Woo Soo-Han to work on a gun smuggling case.
Release date for “Mission: Possible” is now set for February, 2021 in South Korea.
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Teaser trailer added for live-action film “Honey Lemon Soda” starring Raul & Ai Yoshikawa. Movie is based on manga series “Honey Lemon Soda” by Mayu Murata and directed by Koji Shintoku (“Peach Girl“). In addition, first group of supporting cast members for the film has been announced. They are Mayu Hotta as Serina Kanno, Tatsuomi Hamada as Tomoya Takamine, Ryota Bando as Satoru Seto, and Natsumi Okamoto as Ayumi Endo. Visuals of the supporting characters are below.
“Honey Lemon Soda” is now set for release July 9, 2021 in Japan.
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