Good Morning, Sleeping Lion

Good Morning, Sleeping Lion (2022)

グッドモーニング、眠れる獅子

Kazuma Kujo recently joined an entertainment company as a manager at the age of 50. He was assigned to idol Remi Watanabe who one day decided to fulfill her dream to become an actress by auditioning to a popular drama. But there are some issues as a mysterious group known as Grim Reapers are after Remi's life. Can this middle-aged manager with a declining stamina protect his talent from those harming her? Can Remi pass her auditions? Also, what is Kujo's true identity and why he chose this job?

Date of release
2022-11-17
TMDB
9.0 / 10 (4)
Runtime
1h 26m
Genres
Action, TV Movie
Director
Koichi Sakamoto
Collection
Good Morning, Sleeping Lion

Casting

Interesting facts

Good Morning, Sleeping Lion is a 2022 web film, starring Seiji Takaiwa and Miho Watanabe and directed by Koichi Sakamoto. It was released on Hikari TV Channel on April 23, 2022. The film is the first starring role of Takaiwa, best known for his work as the suit actor for the Kamen Rider and Super Sentai series. Several previous Kamen Rider lead actors also appear as main antagonists.

Production

Good Morning, Sleeping Lion was first announced on January 17, 2022, as the first starring role of Seiji Takaiwa, best known for his work as suit actor in the Kamen Rider and Super Sentai franchises since 1988, which earned him the nickname "Mr. Heisei Kamen Rider". He was first approached for the role in late 2021 by Toei producer Hideaki Tsukada, who wanted to put him in a starring role.

On January 26, it was announced that Miho Watanabe would appear as the female lead, and four actors who portrayed the human form of Kamen Riders would also appear as the antagonists: Takayuki Tsubaki (Kamen Rider Blade), Masahiro Inoue (Kamen Rider Decade), Shun Nishime (Kamen Rider Ghost), and Gaku Sano (Kamen Rider Gaim). Watanabe would also perform the theme song, "Hitoribocchi no Kakumei" (ひとりぼっちの革命; lit.

Miyuki Nishijima, who has appeared in several Super Sentai series, is also a choreographer and instructed Takaiwa and Watanabe for their dance scenes. Kōji Nakamura, known as the leading suit actor for the Heisei-era Ultraman series, would appear as the yakuza group's strongest fighter.

Takaiwa commented that the fighting styles were more realistic than in his previous works, combining combat and self-defense and incorporating elements of Wing Chun, aikido, and submission wrestling, and as he was already in his fifties, he also asked the action directors to adjust the scenes accordingly.

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