Saturday, February 09, 2013

Karasawa Toshiaki to star in new spring 2013 drama "TAKE FIVE"

Karasawa Toshiaki will star in the new TBS spring 2013 drama "TAKE FIVE" which will begin its run from April at 10pm on Fridays. The story is said to be the Japanese version of the US movie "Ocean's Eleven" and features Karasawa as the leader of a 5-member professional theft group comprising of people from all walks of life.

Karasawa will play a thief for the first time in his career who is an university professor in the day but is the leader of a theft group. The other members include Matsuzaka Toori who works at a security company but is a master at breaking into places, Inagaki Goro who is a police officer but joins the other side of the law because he got demoted, Rokkaku Seiji who is an expert at mechanics and Irie Jingi who is a newbie member and good at physical sports. Matsuyuki Yasuko will play a police officer who chases after the group and gets involved in a love triangle with Karasawa and Matsuzaka. Co-stars also include Baisho Mitsuko, Chiba Yuudai who plays Matsuyuki's subordinate and Fukuda Ayano who plays a graduate student at Karasawa's university.

Source: Sanspo

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