King & Prince's Kaito Takahashi to Make Film Debut in Dance Drama Prism
A talent agency's top idol gets a lead film role organized around the one skill he has trained at since childhood, with the choreographer who once taught him, which is how a dance film gets made with an idol rather than around one.
Reporting from 1 source: Cinema Today.
Kaito Takahashi of King & Prince will make his film debut in Prism, opening March 5, 2027, as a former dancer who teaches inmates on his home island of Shodoshima. NOPPO of s**t kingz choreographs, and Takahashi once attended a school where NOPPO taught. Thirteen cast members, including Kotaro Daigo, play the inmates. Director Yuji Haryu wrote the original story, which was selected as a recommended work for the Sundance Institute/NHK Award.
The teaser visual shows a leaping silhouette overlapping a profile of Takahashi's character, Ritsu Okita, under the copy "Face forward once more." In the story, Ritsu returns from Tokyo to Shodoshima and, at a high school senior's suggestion, teaches dance to inmates at a "prison without walls" on the island.
The inmates are played by 13 cast members, including Kotaro Daigo, Takenori Goto, and Yukito Hidaka. All shaved their heads or cut their hair very short for the roles, and because they were beginners, they practiced dance for two and a half months before filming. Shota Gajin wrote the screenplay.
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