Aoi Nakamura leads all-boys drama club in "Ike! Danshi Koukou Engekibu"
Teen actor Aoi Nakamura (19) has landed another starring movie role. This time, he is leading a cast of young men in an adolescent comedy titled "Ike! Danshi Koukou Engekibu." Tsutomu Hanabusa ("Handsome Suit," "Koukou Debut") is directing the film.
Nakamura's acting career picked up steam last year when he appeared in the movies "BECK," "Perfect Blue," "Ooku," and "Paranormal Activity 2: Tokyo Night."
Before this announcement, he already had four movies lined up for this year. Three of them are starring roles: "Sabi Otoko Sabi Onna" is already in theaters, and both "Hoshi no Furu Machi" and "Kimi to Boku" open this spring. He has a supporting role in "My Back Page," scheduled for release in May.
In "Ike! Danshi Koukou Engekibu," Nakamura plays Genki Ogasawara, a student at an all-boys high school. Along with his friend Kaji (Sosuke Ikematsu), he tries to find a school club that will make him popular with girls, but he winds up joining the drama club, which is in danger of being shut down. After he is suddenly appointed as head of the club, he decides to put all of his effort into motivating the members for an upcoming tournament.
Actor Tetsuhiro Ikeda (40) plays the club's advisor, but he also contributed his first movie screenplay for the film. Besides Nakamura and Ikematsu, the other club members are played by Yu Inaba, Keisuke Tomita, Kazuma Kawahara, and Naofumi Kaneko.
Nationwide theatrical release is scheduled for this summer.
source: TOKYOGRAPH