Rashida Jones’ Apple TV+ Darkish Comedy Sequence Rounds Out Solid With Joanna Sotomura, 4 Extra – Deadline

EXCLUSIVE: Apple TV+ has rounded out the ensemble solid for Sunny (fka Darkish Guide), a half-hour darkly comedic drama, starring and government produced by Rashida Jones. Joanna Sotomura (Barry) stars within the titular position, together with annie the clumsy (Miss Osaka), YOU (No person Is aware of), Judy Ongg and Jun Kunimura (Kill Invoice) be a part of Jones within the collection from Katie Robbins (The Affair, The Final Tycoon) and A24. Lucy Tcherniak (Station Eleven, The Finish of the F***ing World) is hooked up to direct.

Written by Robbins, Sunny is predicated on the e book Darkish Guide by Japan-based award-winning Irish author Colin O’Sullivan.

Jones stars as Suzie, an American lady dwelling in Kyoto, Japan, whose life is upended when her husband and son disappear in a mysterious aircraft crash. As “comfort” she’s given Sunny (Sotomura), one in all a brand new class of home robots made by her husband’s (Hidetoshi Nishijima) electronics firm. Although at first Suzie resents Sunny’s makes an attempt to fill the void in her life, step by step they develop an sudden friendship, as collectively they uncover the darkish reality of what actually occurred to Suzie’s household, changing into dangerously enmeshed in a world Suzie by no means knew existed. Nishijima portrays Masa Sakamoto, Suzie’s husband, and an excellent roboticist.

Sotomura’s Sunny is a brilliant, younger, chipper and emotionally subtle robotic with human feelings designed to please and do good.

annie the clumsy is Mixxy, a new buddy of Suzie and an aspiring mixologist. She’s audacious, feisty, one thing of a large number, each actually and emotionally. 

YOU portrays Hime, the robust and unbiased daughter of the nonagenarian chief of Kyoto’s yakuza clan and needs to be his successor.

Ongg performs Noriko Sakamoto, mom of Masa (Nishijima). Noriko is a rich housewife from an previous Kyoto household. She loves her son greater than something, which is why she tries to tolerate her daughter-in-law.

Kunimura portrays Yuki Tanaka, one other visionary roboticist.

Robbins government produces with Jones and Tcherniak, together with Ravi Nandan and Jess Lubben for A24. 

Sotomura, recognized for her work on Barry and The Good Place, is repped by Griffin Expertise and Courageous Artists Administration.

Identified for his work within the movies Kill Invoice and The Wailing, Kunimura not too long ago starred within the Netflix action- thriller Kate.

annie the clumsy is a singer and songwriter from Japan who produces her personal YouTube present referred to as annie the clumsy. Along with her internet present, annie additionally composes, writes and sings songs for television & internet commercials in Japan. 

Ongg is a singer, actress and woodblock print artist who has appeared in quite a few TV dramas, movies and theatre productions. She received a number of awards, together with the Japan Document Award.