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First Look At Japanese A-Lister Kentaro Sakaguchi In Ryota Nakano’s ‘I Don’t Know You’ Revealed As Goodfellas Boards Sales – EFM

I Don’t Know You © IDKYPs./Pyramide Productions EXCLUSIVE: Goodfellas has revealed a first look at Japanese actor and model Kentaro Sakaguchi as the star of Ryota Nakano‘s upcoming drama I Don’t Know You, as it gears up to launch sales on the film at the European Film Market this month. Sakaguchi is one of Japan’s buzziest actors of the moment with recent credits including Netflix Original Series Beyond Goodbye and Korean star-cross romance What Comes After Love. Billed as a drama questioning the limits of paternal love, forgiveness and redemption, I Don’t Know You revolves around a teenager called Asako and her relationship with Yuhei, a man who became a father figure to her for six months when she was five years old after he started dating her mother.

First Look At Kentaro Sakaguchi In Ryota Nakano’s ‘I Don’t Know You’

First Look At Kentaro Sakaguchi In Ryota Nakano’s ‘I Don’t Know You’

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  • Related Stories News Benedict Cumberbatch To Star In Thriller 'Last Flight'; Protagonist Launching For EFM News Picture Tree International Boards Bernardo & Rafael Antonaccio's 'Butchers' For EFM Launch Thirteen years later, she discovers he is serving a prison sentence, having been convicted of her mother’s murder.
  • Watch on Deadline Sakaguchi plays Yuhei, a vulnerable man who lived alone since his late teens and seemed to have found the family he yearned for in Asako and her mother before committing the unforgivable.
  • Japanese director Nakano last made waves with his well-received comedy-drama The Asadas inspired by a real-life photographer, whose focus on shooting his own family, took on fresh meaning when he became involved in the clear-up of Japan’s 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
  • The film grossed more than $10 million at home in 2020, and also generated more than 250 000 admissions in France.
  • Nakano has explored family bonds throughout his career with films such as Berlinale-selected Capturing Dad (2012), about two sisters who reconnect with their estranged father on his deathbed; Her Love Boils Bath Water (2016) about a dying mother tying up loose ends to ensure her family can live without her, and The Asadas.
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