Princess Toyotomi

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Movie: Princess Toyotomi
Romaji: Purinsesu Toyotomi
Japanese: プリンセストヨトミ
Director: Masayuki Suzuki
Writer: Manabu Makime (novel), Tomoko Aizawa
Producer: Ken Tsuchiya, Naoto Inaba, Shigeshi Maeda
Cinematographer: Akira Sako
Release Date: May 28, 2011
Runtime: 119 min.
Production Company: Toho
Distributor: Toho
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan

Plot

National Audit Bureau member Hajime Matsudaira (Shinichi Tsutsumi), Tadako Torii (Haruka Ayase) & Asahi Gainsbourg (Masaki Okada) travel from their homebase of Tokyo to the city of Osaka. Their mission is to discover any financial irregularities & to ensure the correct use of federal money in the Osaka city government. Their initial audits go smoothly, but things turn more interesting once they enter the Karahori shopping district - the area with a long history reaching back to the Meiji era.

The trio of auditors encounter Koichi Sanada (Kiichi Nakai), who runs a tasty okonomiyaki (Japanese pancakes) restaurant and his son Daisuke (Yuki Morinaga), who wants to be a girl. There's also Daisuke's best friend Chako Hashiba (Ruka Sawaki), a tomboyish girl who protects Daisuke at school from bullying. The auditors then inspect the H.R.H. Foundation, an organization set out to preserve Osaka's historical castles. Although their initial inspection doesn't turn out anything suspicious, it will a short while later. After the trio leave the H.R.H. Foundation and head for Koichi Sanada's restaurant for lunch. When they arrive, Hajime Matsudaira realizes that he left his cellphone at the H.R.H. Foundation. When Hajime returns to the H.R.H. Foundation he discovers that the office is now completely empty (when before it was full of workers), the phones in the office are not connected & the desk drawers are empty!

A full blown investigation is initiated by Hajime Matsudaira and they soon make a startling realization that the whole city of Osaka is running a coverup. A 400 year old secret held by the city of Osaka is about to be revealed ...

Cast



Shinichi Tsutsumi	Haruka Ayase	Masaki Okada	Kiichi Nakai
Hajime Matsudaira	Tadako Torii	Asahi Gainsbourg	Koichi Sanada



Ruka Sawaki	Yuki Morinaga	Takashi Sasano	Emi Wakui
Chako Hashiba	Daisuke Sanada	Kabe Nagaso	Takeko Sanada

Additional Cast Members:

Masashi Goda - Secretary for Congressman
Takashi Ukaji - Karahori middle school principle
Masahiro Komoto - Osaka government official
Toshifumi Muramatsu - manager of H.R.H. Foundation
Hajime Okayama - police officer
Momoko Kikuchi - Sadako ( Kunimatsu's mom)
Mitsuru Hirata - Hajime Matsudaira's father
Toru Emori - Shuzo Urushibara
Hibiki Uemura - Masaru Hachisuka
Taro Suruga - Hachisuka team member
Takayuki Takuma - Yuzo Nanba
Hiroshi Tamaki - man of Takoyaki store

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Comment #2
iLLusiOnEr Says:
May 18 2011 3:51 am

interesting plot with great choices of casts. Noted the choices of family's name of the characters too. They are famous clans from sengoku era. I guess 'Chako Hashiba' is a direct discendant of Toyotomi clan in the movie, hence the movie's name.wait..is she a 'he' for real?

can't wait for this...
Comment #1
aka Says:
Jan 11 2011 7:18 am

OMG~ Okada Masaki's so HaWT in this!~** nggaaaah!~