Baruto no gakuen

Last Wednesday I received an acceptation mail for my role as an extra in the movie “Baruto no gakuen”. I had to send all kind of information about myself like shoe size, height, chest, etc. and a few photos, visa status, experience as actor (none of course :D ).

Some background information: This is the “German year in Japan.” This impressive story, quite rare in the world, will be made into a movie, and its production will start in mid-November. The movie will be titled the “Baruto (Bart) no Gakuen.” It will be released in summer next year.
Bart means a mustache in German. The movie is a story about humanitarian army Col. Matsue with a mustache. Actor Ken Matsudaira is the main player. November 13th is a German national holiday to mourn the dead in the war. In Naruto, there is a monument to mourn 87 Germans who died while at camps, and people from the German Consulate General in Osaka-Kobe came to Naruto to present flowers for the dead.

Quite interesting. Today one of the organisators called and thanked me about 6 times because I found 7 other people who also want to play in the movie :) .
Anyway, the other people and me will leave to Umeda this Saturday. We have to be there at 6.40 in the morning. There will be a bus waiting to bring us Tokushima, I think about 4 hours from here. We’ll come back late in the night, if we can’t catch the last train, a taxi will be arranged for us. Besides that, the filming will make me 11.000円 $-) richer! And even better, I’ll play in a movie (*)! Let’s hope you can actually see my face. If it is fun I’ll probably go to the other filming days too, easy money B-) .