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Tsumabuki turns bad in Sang-il Lee's "Akunin"
Thu, November 5, 2009 (2:19am EST)


Satoshi Tsumabuki (28) has landed the starring role in "Akunin," a new film by director Sang-il Lee ("Hula Girls"). The movie is based on a novel by prize-winning author Shuichi Yoshida.

Although Tsumabuki has generally played likable characters in the past, here he has been cast as an antihero. Tsumabuki plays a man named Yuichi, whose dark deeds include killing a woman he meets through a dating website and forcibly taking a woman to a love hotel. However, the story examines the causes behind his character's actions, as well as the painful romance that develops between him and a woman he encounters.

The female lead will be played by Eri Fukatsu (36). She and Tsumabuki previously co-starred in the drama series "Slow Dance."

"Akunin" is scheduled for a fall 2010 release.

[SnowApple]

Ooh, Slow Dance reunion! (though this sounds more like the plotline for One Million Stars Falling From the Sky) I love seeing onscreen couples work together again, and it's so rare in Japanese stuff.

[Khikarugal]

ugh...japanese are always doing the older woman-younger man thing. I dont like that.

[sirizblack]

ugh...japanese are always doing the older woman-younger man thing. I dont like that.

First time I ever post here, but I am an usual lurker ^^

I was wondering why would you say that? Sounds to me a bit like a chauvinistic remark. As opposed to occidental filming in movies and dramas I am more than okay with older women and younger men relantionships.

And as someone pointed out in the previous post, Fukatsu and Tsumabuki already starred together in 'Slow Dance', which if you ask me, is a wonderful jdorama and their chemistry is really nice. I would never understand why would someone be bothered about their age difference in that drama - Fukatsu played a really cheerful and somewhat childish character that went wonderfully with Tsumabuki's character. Didn't even seem there was an age difference too >.>

[SnowApple]

ugh...japanese are always doing the older woman-younger man thing. I dont like that.

*laughs* Only because you're still young. One day you'll understand.

[Khikarugal]

First time I ever post here, but I am an usual lurker ^^

I was wondering why would you say that? Sounds to me a bit like a chauvinistic remark. As opposed to occidental filming in movies and dramas I am more than okay with older women and younger men relantionships.

And as someone pointed out in the previous post, Fukatsu and Tsumabuki already starred together in 'Slow Dance', which if you ask me, is a wonderful jdorama and their chemistry is really nice. I would never understand why would someone be bothered about their age difference in that drama - Fukatsu played a really cheerful and somewhat childish character that went wonderfully with Tsumabuki's character. Didn't even seem there was an age difference too >.>

I'm not trying to sound mean, but I was talking about a lot of japanese dramas that do that sort of thing. maybe that's why i'm bothered by it. i sort of have prob with the age difference in dramas...but, whatever i guess that's how they like to do dramas. >.>

[database]

I will wait for this film... I hope Satoshi finally win Best Actor in the Japanese Acamademy Awards for this one after 3 nominations... He was so good in "Tears for You" and should have won