To celebrate the band’s 30th anniversary, a feature film entitled 王様になれ (“Be the King”) with music and original story by Sawao Yamanaka was released in Japan in the Fall season of 2019. Shûji Okui is responsible for the script and direction. The film stars actor Amane Okayama as Yuusuke, a young man who works in a ramen shop frequented by numerous Japanese rock bands. Yuusuke dreams of being a photographer, and he decides to follow his dreams by becoming a cameraman for live concert events. Ousama ni Nare also features appearances by numerous musicians, including: Teru and Jiro of Glay ; Atsushi Horie, Hidekazu Hinata and Shinpei Nakayama of Straightener ; Hirotaka Takahashi of The Predators ; Ryosuke Sasaki, Tomoya Tabuchi, Hiroaki Arai and Hiroyuki Suzuki of THE KEBABS; Yoko and Shinya Kusube of Casablanca; Hirata Panda, Beat Ryo, Hoshikawa Don’t Let Me Down, Honma Domino and Chiba O’Reilly of THE BOHEMIANS; Eiichi Miyamoto of syurispeiloff; Ena Fujita , Asako Miyazaki, Aya Matsuoka and Misaki Yoshikawa of SHISHAMO .
Be the King film released
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