Additionally, BS Fuji suspended the scheduled broadcast earlier this month of the irregular television program Utsukushiki Sakenomi-tachi, which Arai hosts.
The film, titled Zenaku no Kuzu after Watanabe’s first manga in the series, had finished filming and was slated for release this year.
The Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office announced that actor Hirofumi Arai was indicted on February 21 on a charge of sexually assaulting a masseuse at his home.
Arai is starring in the Taifū Kazoku film, which is slated to open in June.