Shintaro Asanuma and Yusuke Hino Talk 'DOPPEL' Film
The interview highlights the real-world theater experience behind the film's authenticity and the cast's overlapping connections from tokusatsu and stage productions.
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An interview with Shintaro Asanuma and Yusuke Hino about the film 'DOPPEL', a theater-set mystery drama directed by Kenji Tani, now showing for one week at Shinjuku's Cinemaart. The film follows a theater troupe and features a cast with connections to 'Kamen Rider Gavv' and 'Ensemble Stars!'.
Shintaro Asanuma and Yusuke Hino, co-stars from Kamen Rider Gavv, reunite for director Kenji Tani's new film DOPPEL, which opened Friday for a one-week run at Cinemaart Shinjuku. The 46-minute film, a follow-up to Tani's crowdfunded Tsui-So Journey: Re-enact, centers on a theater troupe and the tensions that lead to an actor's dismissal. Asanuma plays the troupe's director, a role he says mirrors his own work as a playwright and stage director. Hino plays the fired actor. Both actors noted the film's attention to backstage detail, crediting Tani's own theater background and screenwriter Taro Hasegawa's membership in a theater company. The cast also includes Daisuke Morisaki in his first lead film role and Shohei Hashimoto, who like Asanuma has voiced Tsukasa Suou in the Ensemble Stars! franchise.
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