Big River: Joe Odagiri's English Language Debut?

Something interesting here from Fabool ...

Co-produced by Takeshi Kitano's Office Kitano Atsushi Funahashi's Big River is a US set road movie with a hugely international cast and crew, including Japanese mega-star Joe Odagiri who apparently works entirely in English. Sounds decently good doing it, too.

Set in the southwestern US - looks like Arizona to these eyes, though it could be New Mexico - the film is about a hitch hiking Japanese man out to see the world, a Pakistani trying to find his missing wife, and the American girl who gives them both a lift on their way to New York. Personally I found the American actress the least convincing of the three in the trailer, but the camera work is absolutely beautiful ...

Big River Website (Flash Embedded trailer within)