Haru is cast in movie “Hotel Royal.” The film is based on 2013 novel “Hotel Royal” by Shino Sakuragi. The novel won the 149th Naoki Prize. Masaharu Take (“100 Yen Love“) will direct the film. Story for the film will be set at a hotel in Hokkaido. Haru will play Masayo Tanaka. Her family owns the hotel and she works at the hotel as well.
“Hotel Royal” will be released winter, 2020 in Japan.
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Character posters for tvN drama series “It’s Okay to Not Be Okay” starring Kim Soo-Hyun and Seo Ye-Ji. There’s 4 posters in all, with a portrait and landscape poster of the couple together and individual posters of the two lead performers.
Caption on Kim Soo-Hyun’s character poster states in Korean “When life is hard enough to die, running away is the easiest thing to do.” Caption on Seo Ye-Ji’s character poster states “Don’t forget. Don’t forget and overcome. If you do not overcome, your spirit is just like a child’s whose spirit never grows up.” Lastly, the couple posters have the caption of “A little bit weird romantic-comedy about love.”
“It’s Okay to Not Be Okay” first airs June 20, 2020 in South Korea.
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Mugi Kadowaki and Kiko Mizuhara are cast in movie “Tokyo Noble Girl.” The film is based on 2016 novel “Ano Ko wa Kizoku” by Mariko Yamauchi (“Japanese Girls Never Die“) and directed by Yukiko Sode (“Good Stripes“). The film revolves around two women who live completely different lives and their self-reliance.
“Tokyo Noble Girl” will be released sometime next year in Japan.
Plot Synopsis by AsianWiki: Hanako Haibara (Mugi Kadowaki) was born and raised in the city of Tokyo. After she gets dumped by her boyfriend, while in her late 20’s, she goes on blind dates to find a man to marry.
Miki Tokioka (Kiko Mizuhara) was born in a province. She studied very hard and entered a prestigious university in Tokyo. She experienced difficult financial times, but she now works at an IT company.
Due to a man, Hanako Haibara and Miki Tokioka meet each other.
Early teaser poster and ep.1 air date set for MBC drama series “United Effort to Accomplish One Thing” (literal title) starring Kim Hye-Jun, Oh Na-Ra, and Han Soo-Hyun. Caption on the teaser poster states in Korean “All together in this (curse word) house.” The genre of the drama series black-comedy and mystery. A fierce battle takes place over valuable property belonging to a famous painting.
“United Effort to Accomplish One Thing” is set to first air July 15, 2020 in South Korea.
Teaser poster and ep.1 air date set for KBS2 drama series “Men are Men” (working title) starring Hwang Jung-Eum, Yoon Hyun-Min, and Seo Ji-Hoon. The teaser poster does not show any of the actors in the drama series, but does show a broken heart with English captions that states “Marry Me.” The ep.1 premiere date is also shown, which is July 6, 2020. The drama series will take over KBS2’s Monday and Tuesday 10PM time slot after “Born Again.”
Meanwhile, below are the first still images of Hwang Jung-Eum and Yoon Hyun-Min in the drama series. For “Men are Men,” Hwang Jung-Eum plays Seo Hyun-Joo. She works on the planning team of a webcomic and has no interest in marrying. Yoon Hyun-Min plays Hwang Ji-Woo. He is the CEO of a pharmaceutical company and has the qualities of a perfect man. He shows interest in Seo Hyun-Joo.
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Supporting cast announced for movie “Midnight Swan” starring Tsuyoshi Kusanagi. The film is scripted and directed by Eiji Uchida and has Tsuyoshi Kusanagi playing a transgender woman as the main character. Just announced for 11 supporting character roles are Misaki Hattori, Asami Mizukawa, Tomorowo Taguchi, Sei Matobu, Shunsuke Tanaka, Kaito Yoshimura, Reo Sanada, Rinka Ueno, Eriko Sato, Yusuke Hirayama, and Toshie Negishi. Notable roles include Misaki Hattori who will play Ichika Sakurada. She is a distant relative of Nagisa (Tsuyoshi Kusanagi) and they begin to live together. Asami Mizukawa will play Saori Sakurada, who is the mother of Ichika Sakurada.
“Midnight Swan” will be released sometime this autumn in Japan.
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Teaser trailer and poster added for movie “Soiree” starring Nijiro Murakami and Haruka Imou. The teaser trailer plays a song from a portable radio which is “How many times did I kiss you?” by Toshio Kamei and his late wife Chieko Kamei. Toshio Kamei is the music director for the film and he made the song with Chieko Kamei, while she was fighting a disease at the hospital. The song is their love song looking back at their life. Movie is written and directed by Bunji Satoyama.
“Soiree” will be released sometime this summer in Japan.
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Main trailer added for mystery film “Me and Me” starring Cho Jin-Woong, Bae Soo-Bin, and Cha Soo-Yeon. Movie is written and directed by veteran actor Jung Jin-Young. Captions in the trailer states (0:08) “Mysterious Fire Accident,” (0:20) “Detective who is digging up the case,” (0:35) “That Night,” (0:38) “Everything changed,” (0:56) “Must find out,” (1:10) “Disappeared time.”
“Me and Me” will be released June 18, 2020 in South Korea.
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Kento Yamazaki, Ryo Yoshizawa, and Kanna Hashimoto are cast in live-action sequel film “Kingdom 2.” All three will reprise their respective roles from the 2019 movie “Kingdom.” Shinsuke Sato will also return to direct the sequel film. Story, other cast members, and the release date will be announced at a later date.
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Ep.13 of SBS drama series “The King: Eternal Monarch” will air one day later on Saturday, May 30, 2020. That also means this weekend only one 1 episode of the drama series will air. For Friday, SBS will air U.S. movie “Contagion” in the place of “The King: Eternal Monarch.”
Meanwhile, filming for “The King: Eternal Monarch” finished yesterday May 28, 2020 in Nonsan, South Chungcheong Province. The drama series took 6 months to finish filming, as it started on October, 2019 in North Chungcheong Province.
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