Cult Japanese director Shinya Tsukamoto has unveiled first images and more details for his long-gestated, English-language debut Mr. Nelson, Did You Kill People? starring Rodney Hicks and Oscar-winning actor Geoffrey Rush.
Broadway star Hicks appears in his first big screen lead role as real-life, late African American Vietnam War veteran Allen Nelson who returned from the conflict with the severe PTSD, winding up on the streets before crossing paths with Dr. Daniels (Rush) from the Veterans Affairs who set about trying to save him.
Tatyana Ali (The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air) plays Nelson’s wife, while big screen newcomer Mark Merphy, plays the young Allen Nelson in flashbacks.
This cross-border production, shot on location in the U.S., Thailand, Vietnam and Japan, follows in the wake of Tsukamoto’s war-themed, Japanese-language films Fires On The Plain (2014), and Shadow Of Fire (2023). The director broke out with cult classic Tetsuo:
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