Shota Matsuda, left, and Erika Toda, 20

'Liar Game' sees second season and movie

Sunday 16th August, 02:00 AM JST

TOKYO —

Actress Erika Toda, 20, and actor Shota Matsuda, 23, were on hand recently at an event announcing the simultaneous production of the Fuji TV serial drama, “Liar Game Season 2” (which begins in November, Tuesdays at 9 p.m.) and the movie “Liar Game: The Final Stage” (directed by Hiroaki Matsumoto and scheduled for release Feb 6, 2010).

The show skyrocketed to popularity since its start in April of last year, moving from 11 p.m. on Saturdays to a prime time slot, and is now celebrating a second season and plans for the creation of a movie. The second season will focus on the semifinals of the white-knuckle brain game, while the movie will document the finals competition.

When asked what she would do if she won the 5 billion yen grand prize, Toda replied, “I’d buy a house in some place like Okinawa, then save the rest,” while Matsuda said, “I’d make a movie theater and name it after myself. Then I’d only show movies I made.”

Toda’s character is a university student who plays the game to the bitter end despite being repeatedly fooled. When tested with the game at the event, she lost hands down. On the other hand, Matsuda made it to the final two, keeping up appearances for his swindler character.

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thepro at 08:46 AM JST - 16th August

Erika Toda is hot
ersby at 07:36 PM JST - 16th August

I'm looking forward to this. The first series was a nice mix of game theory, probability and mystery.

Hope they change the director, though. In the first series, whenever something important happened, he'd zoom in on the faces of everybody in the room, one after the other. If the room was pretty crowded, this took a while. It got quite annoying.
Sarge at 10:03 PM JST - 16th August

"the 5 billion yen grand prize"

I could live with that.
bdiego at 02:33 AM JST - 17th August

Great show, nice surprise! Yeah, they did pad some scenes but otherwise enough happens in each show.
cwhite at 02:53 AM JST - 17th August

cool, been waiting for this for over a year, excellent music...
kanadamanada at 11:29 AM JST - 17th August

One of the best dorama I've seen.
saeiry at 03:03 PM JST - 18th August

Matsuda Shota is so sexy!!! Luv him!
Mayura at 02:37 PM JST - 20th August

I love the Liar Game manga but somehow I didn't like Matsuda's potrayal of Akiyama Shinichi. Nothing against Matsuda, he's one of my current favourite actors.