More cast members announced for Koki Mitani’s “Once in a Blue Moon”

By kevin on April 14, 2011 at 8:37pm EDT

Eri Fukatsu and Toshiyuki Nishida in Once in a Blue Moon

Koki Mitani’s already-big upcoming comedy Once in a Blue Moon (Suteki na Kanashibari) just got a little bigger.

It was previously that the film would star Eri Fukatsu as a third-rate lawyer who’s forced to depend on a long-dead samurai ghost (Toshiyuki Nishida) as the sole witness to her client’s innocence.

Earlier today, a bunch of new names were added to the cast list, including Tsuyoshi Kusanagi (SMAP), Masachika Ichimura, Takayuki Kinoshita (TKO), Fumiyo Kohinata, Takashi Kobayashi, KAN, Sen Yamamoto, Keiko Toda, Kazuyuki Asano, Katsuhisa Namase, Zen Kajihara, Kenji Anan, and Yoshimasa Kondo.

In addition to the casting update, Toho also revealed the theatrical release date: October 29, 2011.

Sources: Tokyograph, Cinema Today