Tendou Souji: Back in Black.....Butler.

[Grandma said, "Be one Hell of a Butler"]

     Writer, model, and actor Hiro Mizushima is back in the world of tokusatsu.  But this time he won't be doning a henshin belt, nor will he be quoting lines from an old lady we don't know.  He will however, don butler garb for the first time since the 2009 live action adaptation of Mei-chan no Shitsuji, a series he did alongside his Kamen Rider successor, Takeru Satou.

[Now, Master. when you're done, offer your soul to me]

     This time on Mizushima's plate, he will star in the 2013 tokusatsu remake of Yana Toboso's Black Butler [Kuroshitsuji].  Shinzo Matsuhashi, the movie's producer, approached Mizushima several times claiming that the former Kabuto can pass for Sebastian Michaelis perfectly.  After the last time, he accepted the part.  Filming will start on the April after this blog, and the movie will be slated for a mid-2013 release.  Nana's Kentaro Otani and Tiger & Bunny's Keiichi Sato

will direct.  The movie will take place 130 years after the events of the comic.

     Hiro Mizushima is best known for his role of Tendou Souji in the 35th anniversary kid show Kamen Rider Kabuto in 2006.  He left acting after the live action adaptation of BECK:Mongolian Chop Squad in order to persue a writing career under the name, Tomohiro Saito.  His first novel, KAGEROU won the 5th Poplar Publishing Prize for Fiction, solidifying his skills as a novelist.  In Februrary of 2009, he married Pop singer Ayaka after a couple months of dating.  

     Kuroshitsuji, or Black Butler in English, was created by Yana Toboso.  Since it's debut on September 16, 2006, the series was published and serialized in Square Enix's Monthly G Fantasy.  The series follows Sebastian Michaelis, a demonic butler who acts under the service of thirteen-year old Ciel Phantomhive, the young scion of the Phantomhive estate and toy manufacturer, Funtom.  Michaelis aides the young Ciel in avenging the death of his parents, and once completed, the boy will be slained by our titular butler.  An anime was released in 2008.

Sources: Nippon Cinema/ Cinema Today/ JEFusion