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CITY HUNTER Returns In April In The Upcoming Netflix Live Action Feature

After numerous adaptations of the popular manga by Tsukasa Hojo for cinema and television, director Yuuichi Satou (You, I Love, The Master Plan) brings back into motion the adventures of the finest sweeper on the streets of Shinjuku from a script by Tatsuro Mishima,  with Ryouhei Suzuki (Poison Berry in My Brain, Kasane: Beauty and Fate) as Ryo Saeba/City Hunter and Misato Morita (The Naked director, Top Knife) as Kaori Makimura, Ryo´s always loyal sidekick. Some brief glances of the upcoming film could be seen in a Japanese Netflix teaser that announces the upcoming realeases for this 2024 on the streaming service.  Some images that suggest a faithful transition from the manga pages to the screen with a big resemblance of the actors with the characters they´re portraying. City Hunter was first published in 1985 by Shūeisha on the pages of their mega popular magazine, Shonen Jump, becoming an instant […]

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CITY HUNTER XYZ Review: Carrying Ryo Saeba´s Legacy with Honor

l Every Time that a fan group attempts such a difficult project as this short film, of bringing their beloved manga or anime into live action, their love and passion for the original work overshadows their technical limitations, delivering really decent works that carries the legacies that they try to pay tribute with honor. City Hunter XYZ is a cinematic love letter to Tsukasa Hojo´s manga, freely adapting one of the best sagas of the story, “Angel Dust“, in which the legend of Ryo Saeba as “City Hunter” really begun, when he was forced to avenge his best friend´s death, Makimura, on hands of a dangerous criminal organization that plans to rule Tokyo´s underworld. Filip Wong directs this short film with the challenge of bringing into the screen all the essence of the original work, despite of its limited budget and the strong aroma of amateur product that distills, the […]

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