The
world is full of me.
“It’s Me, It’s Me.”– Based on a popular
Japanese contemporary novel, director Miki wrote the script himself, opting for
an original, spellbinding ending that makes full use of the art. Realistic,
surreal, funny and unnerving, this film will swallow you up in unfathomable
suspense.
This fantastical tale of “self-multiplication” will be made into a
film by Satoshi Miki ("Adrift in Tokyo"('08), "Instant
Swamp"('09) who has made his mark with his original worldview that renders
his works a world of its own, which is known as “the Miki World.” Kazuya
Kamenashi of a popular boy-band, KAT-TUN, will star as the protagonist,
Hitoshi.
The movie premiered in 15th Udine Far East Film Festival
Italy in April 2013, and Kamenashi won the My Movie Audience Award.
Synopsis:
A
casual scam triggers a surreal series of events, which turns everyone into
“ME,” who eventually turns on each other. Hitoshi, who is at first disoriented
in the world that is inhabited by so many Hitoshis, yet unexpectedly finds the
uncomplicated relationships among “himselves” quite comfortable. 
I am Hitoshi, aged 28. One day, I encounter another me. That Hitoshi tells me that he has actually met another Hitoshi, the week before. It looks like everyone turns into "ME". Before I know it, the world is filled with "ME" at a staggering speed. And in time, all these "MEs" start deleting other "MEs".
CAST
Kazuya Kamenashi 龟梨和也
The co-lead vocalist of popular J-pop boyband KAT-TUN, Kazuya Kamenashi
is an iconic figure in Japan, who has enjoyed in many successes in acting,
modeling and hosting. In 2009, he starred in the drama Kami no Shizuku, which him, his co-stars and the drama did a near
clean sweep of the winter edition of the Nikkan Sports Drama Grand Prix Awards
in March 2009. He has also won Best Actor award several times for the dramas
Nobuta wo Produce, Perfect Girl Evolution, and Humanoid Monster Bem.
1999 Kinpachi-sensei
(TV)
2005 Gokusen
2 (TV), Kindaichi Case Files (TV), Nobuta wo Produce (TV)
2009 Gokusen:
The Movie
2010 Perfect
Girl Evolution (Yamato Nandeshiko Shichi
Henge) (TV)
2011 Humanoid
Monster Bem (TV)
2012 Humanoid
Monster Bem: The Movie
Yuki Uchida 内田有纪
A popular Japanese idol in the 90s, Yuki Uchida was cast in many dramas
and movies, often as the lead actress. She is most noted for the live movie
adaptation of the famous manga Hana Yori Dango (Boys Over Flowers) and Cat’s
Eye.
1995 Hana
Yori Dango (Boys Over Flowers)
1997 Cat’s
Eye
1998 BEAT
2007 Glory
to the Filmmaker!, Welcome to the Quiet Room
NOVEL
The film is adapted from the novel of the same name Ore Ore, written by Tomoyuki Hoshino,
which won the Kenzaburo Oe Prize in 2011. Early in the novel, the narrator
engages in a kind of scam known in Japan as a ore-ore sagi (‘it’s me scam'), in
which he calls up an older person, pretends to be a relative, and tries to get
the person on the other end of the phone line to send money. The narrator finds
himself unwittingly pulled into the life of the person whose identity he has
fraudulently assumed, at the same time that someone else assumes his identity.
This starts a chain-reaction of identity-stealing that extends to the edges of
society, creating an increasingly surreal and dangerous world in which no one
is exactly whom they seem.
*FILM DETAILS*
Film: It’s
Me, It’s Me
Director: Satoshi Miki
Cast: Kazuya
Kamenashi, Yuki Uchida
Genre: Comedy, Suspense
Language: Japanese (With English and Chinese
subtitles)
Duration: 119 mins
Rating : PG 13
Trailer : http://youtu.be/NmsL87Emc5g
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