PROFILE
Born on April 10, 1999 in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. He will be an exclusive model for "MEN'S NON-NO" from 2019, and will also start acting in 2021. He is currently starring in the drama "Yokai Share House: Kitaitekitankai" (TV Asahi). His first films "Red Bridge" and "Red Bridge Beginning" will be released on June 4.
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ABOUT
Daiki Imanishi, who has returned to his hometown Ibaraki after spending time in a juvenile reformatory, hears that Ken Kohinata, a boy he roomed with in the juvenile reformatory, is in danger and heads for Tokyo in a stolen car, causing trouble wherever he goes to save Ken with his friends Kaito Sakaguchi and Ryuichi Maki, who also met in the reformatory. They have no money, no education, and no women. What will happen to these young men with nothing on their journey?
Trailer for Red Bridge
ABOUT
Daiki Imanishi, who grew up in an orphanage, is arrested for possession of illegal drugs and sent to a reformatory. He is placed in the same room with Ryuichi Maki, Ken Kohinata, and Kaito Sakaguchi, who has returned from a punishment cell after causing problems, but gradually forms a deep bond with them. Daiki and his friends, who have a strong sense of justice despite their bad temper, stop bullying in the reformatory, which leads them into conflict with Ryota Horiguchi, the head of the reformatory, and Atsushi Samejima, a semi-gangster who is rumored to have killed a man.
Trailer for Red Bridge Beginnings
The 10 days of youth began with the bottom line.
I had the opportunity to see both "Red Bridge" and "Red Bridge Beginning". It was a very good movie because it skillfully depicted the anger and anxiety of youth with nowhere to go, the feeling of instantaneous and deep friendship, and the sense that things can quickly turn into a fight. How long did it take you to shoot the film?
Thank you very much. It is 10 days in total.
Oh, you mean the two together?
Yes, it is. Including the biginning. It's a surprise (laughs).
I feel that the relationship between the four of them is so realistic that I still feel as if I can find them in some city. How did they build their relationship?
I am glad to hear that. Everyone was young, and since it was the first time for Sorato Okura and me to work on a movie, we all talked about it and decided to have fun while doing it. From reading the script, the characters of Daiki and Kaito were a bit similar, so we talked about how to contrast them.
How exactly did you differentiate between the characters of Daiki and Kaito?
I felt that Kaito was not so much concerned with justice or something deep in his heart, while Daiki was motivated by his own beliefs, so I was very conscious to bring out the difference between the two.
I personally liked the scene in the play where the guys get excited about the joke and become friends all at once. Did you get closer to your co-stars after shooting that scene?
There was that (laughs). It was quite a long scene and there were ad-libs, so I laughed really hard. I think that led to a sense of reality.
