Takashi Miike's 'Yatterman' has it's female lead!

The cast is coming together for Takashi Miike's adaption of the 1970s anime series, Yatterman. It was revealed on Tuesday that actress Saki Fukuda has been cast as the female lead, Gan's girlfriend Ai. As was previously reported Gan will be played by Arashi member Sho Sakurai.

Near as I can tell Saki has not had any feature film roles yet but she has done a smack of television the last three years. She does have one film credit for 2008, a film titled Sakura no Sono, though I do not know if this is a remake of a film from 1990 of the same name, in that film the members of a drama club at a girl's high school prepare for a performance of Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard."

Yatterman is slated for a spring 2009 release.