Netflix has been winning in the last few years on the live-action adaptation front for Japanese IP. Depending who you are among manga readerships, this could very well extend to the audience being courted for Demon City, the latest production from the streamer launching February 27.
Seiji Tanaka (Melancholic) is directing from his own script which is based on Masamichi Kawabe’s 2020 comic series, “Oni Goroshi”. Demon City stars Toma Ikuta (Netflix series “Beyond Goodbye”) in the role of Shuhei Sakata, a hitman seeking vengeance for the deaths of his wife and daughter, against an organization of strange masked criminals who control the provincial city of Shinjo from the shadows.
The film also stars Matsuya Onoe (G-Men), Masahiro Higashide (The Confidence Man JP), Masanobu Takashima (We Couldn’t Become Adults), and Mio Tanaka; Rounding out the cast are Ami Toma, Taro Suruga, Mai Kiryu, Naoto Takenaka, Takuma Otoo, and Masanobu Takashima.
Production hails from Amuse, Digital Frontier. Yasuhiro Masaoka (“60 Minutes Until the First Love Affair”), and Takeshi Sawa (Yowamushi Pedal) are producing.
Tanaka made his debut in 2018 with comedic crime drama, Melancholic. The film won the Japanese Cinema Splash Best Director Award at the 31st Tokyo International Film Festival and the White Mulberry award for Best First Film at the 21st Far East Film Festival.
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