Additional cast members for the movie "Frontline" (directed by Mitsutoshi Sekine), starring actor Shun Oguri, have been announced, including Nana Mori, Yuki Sakurai, Rie Miura, Ken Mitsuishi, and Kenichi Takito. The movie will be released on June 13th, and a Teaser trailer showing "people facing an unprecedented crisis" has also been released.
"Frontline" is the first Japanese film to be based on an original script and is a fact-based story about the COVID-19 experience humanity has had on a global scale. The film is set on the luxury cruise ship Diamond Princess, which arrived at Yokohama Port on February 3, 2020 and was the site of Japan's first case of COVID-19 outbreak, and follows the events that took place from that day until February 21, when all passengers had disembarked. In addition to Oguri, Tori Matsuzaka, Ikematsu Sosuke, and Kubozuka Yosuke appear in the main cast.
Mori and others will play characters surrounding the cruise ship.
Mori plays Hatori Hiroko, a crew member who works desperately to ease the anxiety of the passengers on board, Sakurai plays Ueno Mai, a TV reporter who is the news director at Chuo Television's news center and is following the ship, Mimura plays Kawamura Sakura, a mother who boarded the ship with her 6-year-old son, Mitsuishi plays Todoroki, Ueno's (Sakurai) boss and Chuo Television's news manager who continues to incite public opinion and report the news in an overly heated manner, and Takito plays Miyata, a doctor at the hospital who accepts the disembarked passengers in quarantine.
Stills featuring the main cast including Oguri, as well as additional cast members including Mori, were also released.
