The Stand-In Thief (2017)
Original title: 泥棒役者
The Stand-In Thief is a 2017 Japanese-language comedy movie directed by Masafumi Nishida, with a running time of 1h 54m. It stars Ryuhei Maruyama, Masachika Ichimura and Yusuke Santamaria.
Hajime Onuki (Ryuhei Maruyama) was a thief, but he now works as a welder and lives happily with his girlfriend. Hajime Onuki is threatened by a former partner in crime. He forces Hajime Onuki to break into the mansion of a picture book writer to steal. He is caught by others while in the act, but they keep mistaking him for someone else. Hajime desperately keeps up the ruse to not get caught.
Cast
- Ryuhei Maruyama as Hajime Onuki
- Masachika Ichimura as Shuntaro Maezono
- Yusuke Santamaria as Ryosuke Todoroki
- Anna Ishibashi as Eriko Oku
- Mitsuki Takahata as Misa Fujioka
- Miyagawa Daisuke as Norio Hatakeyama
- Jin Katagiri as Jin Takanashi
- Rie Minemura as Mayumi Yonemura
- Atsuko Hirata as housewife
- Chad Mullane as Dave Ross