Pillow Talk Japan

Saibara Rieko’s popular manga strip “Mainichi Kaasan” is to be adapted for the big screen, it was announced yesterday. Whoever did the casting pulled off a PR coup because the leading roles of a married couple will be played by actress Koizumi Kyoko (44, photo left) and actor Nagase Masatoshi (43), who divorced in 2004. The manga, which has run in the Mainichi Shimbun newspaper every Sunday since October 2002, is about the daily life of the Kamohara family, based on Saibara’s own family. Her husband, journalist and photographer Kamoshida Yutaka, died of…