Japan's Nippon Television Network Corp. (NTV) has done a raft of pre-sales on Takashi Kaneshiro starrer K-20 and typhoon disaster film 252.

K-20 sold to Tiberius for Germany, Festive Film for Singapore, and M Pictures for Thailand.

Based on the original story by Kitamura Soh, K-20 featured Kaneshiro as a legendary phantom thief with 20 faces. Matsu Takako and Nakamura Toru also star.

The film is being directed by Sato Shimako.

Also, 252 sold to Korea Screen for South Korea, Golden Harvest for HK and Taiwan, and Encore Film for Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei.
The film directed by Mizuta Nobuo follows Tokyo firefighters trying to save survivors of a typhoon.

The two films both sold after screenings of 5 min. of footage, and are also both set for local release in December.

The company's international film sales division started up two years ago with Death Note.