Worries about whitewashing around the live-action take on manga Ghost In The Shell haven't exactly abated, even with the casting of Takeshi Kitano to play Scarlett Johansson's boss. Now we have a second Japanese actor joining the film, with The Wolverine's Rila Fukushima on board.
Rupert Sanders is directing the sci-fi action thriller, which adapts Masamune Shirow’s original 1989 manga (for lots more on the complete history of Ghost In The Shell, head here). Johansson is starring as a female special ops cyborg at the head of an elite task force known as Section 9 commanded by Kitano's Daisuke Aramaki. The team, working for Hanka Robotics, is in charge of stopping dangerous criminals and extremists, and their prime target is The Laughing Man, a terrorist dedicated to wiping out all of Hanka’s cyber technology.
Fukushima, who was warrior Yuko in The Wolverine and also appeared on Game Of Thrones and Arrow, joins a cast that also includes Pilou Asbaek, Juliette Binoche, Michael Pitt, Chin Han, Kaori Momoi, Yukata Izumihara and Joseph Naufahu. Ghost In The Shell will be out in the UK on March 31 next year.