Jon Hamm and Andrew Koji to star in Takashi Miike thriller Bullfrog

The American actor Jon Hamm and the British actor Andrew Koji will star in Bullfrog, a psychological thriller from the Japanese director Takashi Miike, Variety reported on 13 November.

The film is set in a near-future Tokyo under lockdown. A Japanese detective, played by Koji, and a former FBI profiler, played by Hamm, track a mysterious serial killer in a dangerous game of cat and mouse.

Who is behind it

Eric Jordan Baker wrote the script. The producers are Nathan Ross, whose credits include the series Big Little Lies and Sharp Objects, David Styne and Misako Saka. The Japanese company OLM will oversee production in Japan. Principal photography is planned for summer 2027; no release date has been announced.

Paris-based mk2 Films has taken international sales, while CAA Media Finance is handling North American sales and financing. Variety called it one of the hottest projects at this year’s American Film Market (AFM). Fionnuala Jamison, managing director of mk2 Films, called Miike “one of the great provocateurs of contemporary cinema”.

The director and the cast

Miike is one of Japan’s most prolific film-makers, with more than 100 features to his name, including Audition, Ichi the Killer and 13 Assassins. Hamm won an Emmy and two Golden Globes for playing Don Draper in Mad Men. Koji’s credits include the films Bullet Train and Snake Eyes and the Netflix series Black Doves.