Honami Suzuki joins cast of "Gou"
Honami Suzuki is making her return to acting after ten years. She has been cast in next year's NHK taiga drama "Gou ~Himetachi no Sengoku~," which has already been revealed to feature lead actress Juri Ueno, Rie Miyazawa, and Asami Mizukawa.
Suzuki's last acting role was as the lead in the film "Ichigensan," released in 2000. That movie had already been filmed by the time she retired in 1998 after getting married to comedian Takaaki Ishibashi (48) of Tunnels. In 2008, Suzuki returned to show business but had not yet started acting again.
Suzuki will play the role of Oichi-no-kata, the younger sister of Oda Nobunaga. Oichi was the mother of the three daughters Yodo/Chacha (Miyazawa), Hatsu (Mizukawa), and Gou/Oeyo (Ueno).
Filming for "Gou" is scheduled to start this summer.