It has been announced that Ikuta Toma will have his movie debut as the lead actor of the upcoming film, Zigeunerweisen. Which is known in English as, No Longer Human. This movie is based off of the novel by the same name, written by one of Japan's most famous novelists, Osamu Dazai. It also has never been adapted to a film before and is only now being adapted to celebrate the 100th year since Dazai's birth.
Filming will begin this July and the movie is being slated for a 2010 spring release.
Tokyo Graph article. (English)
Also in Johnny's news, SMAP's Kusanagi Tsuyoshi will be returning to work on May 28th. This announcement came from the Johhny's Agency office via fax.
Yahoo! News article. (Japanese only)
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