Japanese actor Lily Franky will appear in Wayne Wang’s next film “Diary of a Mad, Old Man,” revealed co-star Fan Bingbing at a Q&A session for the film “ Mother Bhumi ,” in competition at the Tokyo International Film Festival .

Franky is best known to international audiences for playing the lead character in Hirokazu Koreeda’s Palme d’Or-winning Shoplifters (2018). He was most recently in Chie Hayakawa’s Cannes competition title “Renoir.”

“I’m very happy that both director Wayne Wang and Lily-san have come to see my film [“Mother Bhumi”], because we’ve just made a film together here in Japan.” said Fan.

“Diary” is based on the 1961 hit novel of the same name by Japanese author, Tanizaki Jun’ichirō, about an elderly invalid’s erotic obsession with his daughter-in-law.

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