Live Action Mainichi Kaasan Movie Announced

44-year-old actress Kyoko Koizumi and her ex-husband 43-year-old Masatoshi Nagase will star in a live action feature film based on four volumes of Rieko Saibara’s autobiographical domestic comedy manga series Mainichi Kaasan (Everyday Mother). Weekly installments of the humorous manga story about Saibara’s daily life raising her two children have been published in the Mainichi Newspaper since 2002. The manga’s 6 compiled books have sold over 1.5 million copies. And an ongoing anime television series adaptation premiered in April 2009.

The movie will start filming next month for an early 2011 theatrical opening. The Shochiku production studio claims that the movie will mark the first time a real-life divorced couple co-star in a movie as a married couple. Kyoko Koizumi & Masatoshi Nagase married in 1995 and divorced in 2004. Koizumi & Nagase did both appear in the 2006 film Sakuran but did not share any scenes.

Source: Tokyograph