Top star Lee Byeong-Heon will meet Japan's most popular star, Kimura Takuya in a film.
Lee Byeong-Heon's agency, BH Entertainment revealed on the 17th that "Lee Byeong-Heon will make a special appearance in 'Hero', a movie starring Kimura Takuya".
"Hero", a popular drama which debuted in 2001 on Fuji TV starred Kimura Takuya and Matsu Takako, and had over 30% of viewer ratings at the time. Even in Korea, it was broadcasted on cable and satellite TV.
This time, the drama "Hero", which will be turned into a movie, will feature the same main characters, and Lee Byeong-Heon will make a pro bono appearance opposite Kimura Takuya as a Korean police investigator. He will support Kimura Takuya, who plays a Japanese investigator who came to Korea to investigate a case.
About acting together in a film with Lee Byeong-Heon, Kimura Takuya expressed his expectations: "I think of it as an honor to work together in this world of movies. Even if the language is different, I want to enjoy the filming as we work for the same goal".
The "Hero" filming crew will be in Pusan this month to film on location. Presently, Lee Byeong-Heon, who is in the middle of filming the movie "The Good Guy, The Bad Guy and The Strange" by director Kim Ji-woon, plans to have two days available to shoot "Hero".
This movie will also have a new actor Baek Do-bin, who is son of a movie actor Baek Yoon-sik, and will play the role of a Korean assistant who helps the Japanese police's investigation, and Ahn Kil-gang will play a Korean crime syndicate boss.