[HSJ News] Hey! Say! JUMP’s Yamada Ryosuke is the 4th generation Kindaichi Hajime

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Hey! Say! JUMP’s Yamada Ryosuke is the 4th generation Kindaichi Hajime

by babamoosh on July 23, 2012 at 7:48 pm

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It was announced on July 23rd that Hey! Say! JUMP’s Yamada Ryosuke (19) will be starring as Kindaichi Hajime in a special drama episode “Kindaichi Shonen no Jikenbo (Kindaichi Case Files) -  Hongkong Kowloon Treasure Murder Case” (tentative title), to be broadcast in the winter on Nihon TV.
Based on popular manga series “Kindaichi Shonen no Jikenbo“, this special drama episode will be staged in Hongkong. There will be lots of showy action sequences, and popular actors and actresses from Hongkong, Korea and other countries in Asia will be participating in the special. Yamada commented with high spirits, “This is a big-scale production. I want to act out a Kindaichi that only I can portray.”
The series was last shown 7 years ago as a drama special in September of 2005. Actors who have starred in the role of Kindaichi include Kinki Kids’ Domoto Tsuyoshi (33), Arashi’s Matsumoto Jun (28), and KAT-TUN’s Kamenashi Kazuya (26).
Source: Sanspo
Image: Hey! Say! JUMP Lounge