King Gnu's Satoru Iguchi Handwrote the Title Calligraphy for His Starring Film
The reveal turns an ordinary completion screening into a story about authorship, since the same actor who carries the film also lettered the title that opens it.
Reporting from 1 source: Cinema Today.
At the completion screening of "Nigero Ojousan" at United Cinemas Toyosu on the 17th, director Chihiro Ito revealed that lead actor Satoru Iguchi of King Gnu wrote the film's title calligraphy by hand. Iguchi said he was asked to write it and produced about 100 versions. Co-star Mai Fukagawa and Ito joined him at the event. The film opens October 2.
Ito directed Iguchi in "Hitoribocchi Janai," and "Nigero Ojousan" is their third work together. Iguchi said he had grown used to working with the director and that they told themselves the third one mattered, so the passion ran high. The adaptation comes from a short story in Shuichi Yoshida's collection "Toubou Shousetsu-shuu." Iguchi plays Kouta, who runs a hot spring inn inherited from his parents and tries to help former idol Maiko Ayukawa, played by Fukagawa, while she is on the run. Filming took place in Nagano Prefecture, Iguchi's hometown.
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- Cinema Today King Gnu・井口理、主演映画の題字は直筆「100枚ぐらい書いた」