Tatsuya Egawa directs first film in 4 years, “KING GAME”

By kevin on June 11, 2010 at 3:32am EDT

Yesterday it was announced that manga artist Tatsuya Egawa (Golden Boy, Tokyo Daigaku Monogatari) has completed work on KING GAME, his second live-action film as a director and that it will be released this summer. Unlike his last film, 2006’s “Tokyo University Story”, this is not based on one of his manga, but an entirely original story.

Takuya Ishida (The Chasing World) and Sei Ashina (Nanase Futatabi: The Movie) star as two of 10 people gathered together in a room to play a mysterious game. In fact, they’ve each been brought there under a secret contract, and are not allowed to reveal any details about their true identities to each other. The film is said to highlight dark aspects of the human psyche, illustrating people’s potential for lust and violence when trapped somewhere and controlled.

Other cast members include Shunsuke Kubozuka, Ai Maeda, Keisuke Horibe, Hiroshi Yamamoto, Nana Natsume, Jai West, Chiaki Sato, Yukie Kawamura, Jerry Fujio, and Yoshino Kimura.

“KING GAME” will be released at Shinjuku K’s Cinema on August 28, 2010.

Sources: Tokyograph, Cinema Today