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Win Morisaki, a Japanese actor will join Steven Spielberg’s movie “Ready Player One” under Warner Bros and Village Roadshow. In the role, he will play one of the teens who goes on a quest for riches in a virtual world of 2044. His character’s name is Daito. Morisaki joins a cast that includes Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Simon Pegg, Ben Mendelsohn, T.J. Miller and Mark Rylance in the virtual universe Oasis, created in the 2011 novel by Ernest Cline. Morisaki, 25, previously appeared in 2008 TV series “Gakko Ja Oshierarenai!” and the same year joined as lead vocalist of the boy band PrizmaX. He has had previous movie roles in Japanese features “Sherry” and “Gokusen: The Movie.”