Tatsuya Egawa directs 2nd live-action film titled "King Game"

By Siewaun
Reference: Tokyograph

Prolific mangaka or Japanese manga artist, Tatsuya Egawa ("Golden Boy," "Magical Taruruto-kun"), who made his directorial debut in 2006 feature "Tokyo Daigaku Monogatari", has just completed directing his second feature film titled "KING GAME".

Egawa wrote the original story for this suspense/horror themed movie, unlike his 2006 debut film, which was adapted from his manga work.

Movie centers a group of 10 men and women gathered together in a sealed room and forced to play the popular party game known as Ousama Game (King's Game). Each of them has been brought there by a secret contract. As their game goes on, they reach their limits and reveal their true natures, giving way to lust and violence.

Takuya Ishida ("Semishigure," "Oppai barê") and Sei Ashina ("Kamen Rider Hibiki," "Silk") are starring in the lead role as two of the group of ten, while supporting cast are Yoshino Kimura, Shunsuke Kubozuka, Ai Maeda, Keisuke Horibe, Koji Yamamoto, Nana Natsume, Jai West, Chiaki Sato, Yukie Kawamura and Jerry Fujio.

Phantom Film will handle distribution of the movie, which will be released on the 28th of August.