ONE PERCENTER Short Promo Teases Tak Sakaguchi’s Latest Gangbuster Action Thriller
I knew there had to be a reason why I woke up this morning. Enter Re:Born and Crazy Samurai Musashi star Tak Sakaguchi who, a decade after once announcing his retirement from film, has graciously found himself thriving on and off-screen, which also brings us to the first short teaser for One Percenter, pairing him with none other than Yudai Yamaguchi who has been in Sakaguchi’s corner in a career space they’ve shared since Ryuhei Kitamura’s 2000 cult hit, Versus.
Action film actor Toshiro Takuma is a man with only one goal: the perfection of action film acting...
But when his samurai-approach to the profession clashes with an industry addicted to wires, CGI and quick edits, Toshiro and his trusty apprentice Akira decide to make their dream film themselves.
When actual violence finds its way onto their film set in the form of yakuza mobsters looking for a hidden cache of drugs, Toshiro and Akira are suddenly thrust into action.
Is this the ideal opportunity to take his “Real Action” to the next level? As lives are lost and chaos ensues, Toshiro finds that the gap between action “fantasy” and “reality” isn’t quite what he thought!
That’s the pitch for now and with nothing more than fifteen glorious seconds of Sakaguchi handing out beatdowns like free samples at the mall. That action comes by way of Kensuke Sonomura who directed Sakaguchi’s key villain role opposite leading man Hitoshi Ozawa in the star’s 60th birthday action thriller celebration, Bad City.
Tickets for One Percenter go on sale in March for the locals ahead of its November release in Japan while Toei Company retains international sales rights.
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