"Shikisoku Generation" cast announced

[Tokyograph News]

The main cast of "Shikisoku Generation" was revealed at a press conference on Tuesday. The movie, directed by Tomorowo Taguchi, is an adaptation of Jun Miura's semi-autobiographical novel of the same name.

A few rock musicians have been cast, starting with Daichi Watanabe as the main character Jun. Watanabe is the vocalist of the unsigned punk band Kuroneko Chellsea, whose name also seems to be romanized as Kuroneco Chelcy according to their MySpace page. He managed to land the part through an audition that had roughly 2,000 applicants.

Watanabe is joined by Quruli vocalist Shigeru Kishida and Ging Nang Boyz frontman Kazunobu Mineta. Unlike the other two, Mineta has appeared in a few movies before, including a starring role in Taguchi's previous film "Iden & Tity" (which was also a Jun Miura adaptation).

The rest of the cast includes writer Lily Franky and talento Chiemi Hori (both were announced last week), as well as fashion model Asami Usuda.

Distributor Stylejam expects to release the film in June 2009.

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