Netflix Sets November 5 for Buying a Man with One Year to Live
The date and cast confirm Netflix is moving the adaptation of Yoshikawa Toriko's award-winning 2021 novel through a full promotional beat toward a worldwide November release.
Reporting from 1 source: Cinema Today.
Netflix will stream Buying a Man with One Year to Live worldwide on November 5, with Shibasaki Kou and Akaso Eiji in the double lead. Eight additional cast members were announced: Tsutsui Michitaka, Nishida Naomi, Hamada Mari, Narumi Yui, Moriguchi Yoko, Miyase Ryubi, Ozaki Maka, and Kondo Koyama. Key art and a trailer are out. Kazama Taiki directs; Okada Yoshikazu wrote the screenplay.
Tsutsui plays Ikuyama Masami, the boss Yui keeps in contact with after their affair ends. Nishida is Maruyama Mizuho, a colleague with a husband and child who spends on fandom under the motto "paying = love." The rest of the eight fill out Sena's side of the story: Hamada as his mother, Narumi as his younger sister Nachi, who left a violent husband and came home, and Miyase as Kiriya, a junior host at the club.
The trailer follows Yui spending her remaining year on things she put off, premium cinema seats, the arcade, the department store basement. Yoshikawa commented that the film stirred up a dizzying mix of emotions and that living is not so bad.
- Tsutsui Michitaka: plays Ikuyama Masami, Yui's former affair partner and boss
- Nishida Naomi: plays Maruyama Mizuho, Yui's colleague who spends on fandom under the motto "paying = love"
- Hamada Mari: plays Sena's mother, who works to repay debt while looking after her grandchild
- Narumi Yui: plays Sena's younger sister Nachi, who returned home after leaving a violent husband
- Moriguchi Yoko: plays Yui's stepmother, with whom Yui has unresolved tensions
- Miyase Ryubi: plays Kiriya, a junior host Sena describes as "like looking at my old self"
- Ozaki Maka: plays a big-spending customer of Sena
- Kondo Koyama: plays a doctor
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- Cinema Today 柴咲コウ＆赤楚衛二主演Netflix映画『余命一年、男をかう』配信日決定！追加キャスト8名発表