A Family and Sekigahara actor Yukiya Kitamura is taking the reins and beating the streets as a downtrodden detective mitigating his hodgepodge neighborhood of Yakuza and Chinese crime factions in Kotaro Ikawa’s new film, Old School. Futoshi Nakano and Kida Norio penned the script for the pic, marking Ikawa’s return to the helm since debuting in 2006 with Lost In Tokyo, which earned him the Audience Award at the first-ever CinDi 2007 Film Festival in Seoul.
Shinjiro is a wandering detective whose hobbies are gambling and drinking. Because he is naively honest and he had bad mouth, he is always arguing or having conflicts with his clients, so now he has no job or money.
His office is a rented warehouse in a coffee shop run by Rin. However, Shinjiro finds it interesting to live in a town with a mix of cultures, races, old Japanese gangs and new Chinese gangs.
One day Shinjiro has a confrontation while getting drunk at an illegal casino run by a familiar Yakuza boss named Kyoichi. As compensation, he is asked to find someone who set fire to Kyoichi’s office, which he suspects is the work of Chinese mafia, Barrett…
Titled locally as Doomsday Detective, Old School also stars Yohei Matsukado, Iriya Take, Yuzu Aoki, Akari Takaishi, Atomu Mizuishi, Kentaro Furuyama, Yohta Kawase, Yuya Takagawa and Akaji Maro. The film is developed and produced by Kazuyuki Kitaki (Under The Turquoise Sky), and is produced by Riku Sumida (BAD CITY), and exec produced by Yusuke Suzuki (BAD CITY), and features action sequences by Kensuke Sonomura (BAD CITY, Hydra).
Old School is slated for December 16 from Japanese distributor Magnetize.
