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TOKYO GHOUL Review: Kentaro Hagiwara’s 2017 Adaptation Is An Appetizing Dish That Leaves A Lot To Be Desired

Ghouls, creatures that have to consume human flesh to survive, exist and live in hiding in order to blend in with humanity. A constant threat, government agencies exist to hunt and capture Ghouls. Running afoul of a murderous Ghoul, Kaneki (Masataka Kubota) is at the edge of death when a freak accident kills his attacker. Waking up in a hospital, he discovers to his horror that in order to save his life, the surgeon had transplanted his attacker’s organs into him, turning him into a human/Ghoul hybrid. Forced to navigate the previously unknown secret world of the Ghouls living amongst us, he finds that while some Ghouls are the vicious monsters the bedtime stories have insisted, there are even more Ghouls who want to simply live in peace. As the hunt of Ghouls intensifies, Kaneki must discover who he is; human or Ghoul. Directed by Kentaro Hagiwara, this live action […]

TOKYO GHOUL: Creepy Girlfriends, Crawlers And Creatures In The Gory U.S. Trailer For The Live-Action Horror Manga Adaptation

Lee B. Golden III

As expected, a full trailer is here for the upcoming horror manga adaptation, Tokyo Ghoul. Funimation Films is gearing up for a limited theatrical engagement slated from October 16 through 22. Riddled with gripping fight scenes and tasteful gore, this adaptation of Tokyo Ghoul brings the popular manga series to life like never before. Buried in books and a quiet life, Ken Kaneki is all but dead to the world in an age where flesh-eating ghouls live among us. But when his only chance for survival is an organ donation that turns him into a ghoul-human hybrid, he finds sanctuary at Anteiku—a café run by the people he once considered monsters. Targeted by anti-ghoul forces, this safe house is up against a hunger more sickening than their own. When their most innocent members are threatened by humanity’s taste for vengeance, Kaneki will risk life and limb to protect the very world that […]

TOKYO GHOUL Sets An October Limited Theatrical U.S. Release From Funimation Films

Lee B. Golden III

It’s been a bustling year with Japanese movie adaptations, and not for nothing either with the successes that have emerged. Such is what Anniversary helmer Hagiwara Kentaro brought with Ishida Sui’s 2011 horror manga, Tokyo Ghoul, which became well received in Asia. It also earned praise from viewers and fans this summer at Anime Expo in Los Angeles. Fumination Films held that screening and I reckon they couldn’t be prouder for it, now setting a timetable for limited theatrical engagements from October 16 through 22 in select U.S. theaters. Riddled with gripping fight scenes and tasteful gore, this adaptation of Tokyo Ghoul brings the popular manga series to life like never before. Buried in books and a quiet life, Ken Kaneki is all but dead to the world in an age where flesh-eating ghouls live among us. But when his only chance for survival is an organ donation that turns […]

More Ghoul Action And Suspense In Two New Promos For TOKYO GHOUL

Lee B. Golden III

Hagiwara Kentaro’s latest IP adaptation, Tokyo Ghoul, is still on deck for a Japan release on July 29. With its Anime Expo premiere pending it’s worthwhile to consider the prospects of a U.S. release anyday now and one that would be even more so for fans of the hit manga and subsequent anime. Actor Kubota Masataka leads the cast of the film which tells of an ordinary college student who befalls the ills of a near-death transformation to a half-human “ghoul”, stumbling into a hidden world of other monsters where epic battles await. Rounding out the cast are Shimizu Fumika, Aoi Yu, Suzuki Nobuyuki and Oizumi Yo. Check out the new minute-long and 30-second promo from Shochiku.

TOKYO GHOUL Loads Up On Ghoul Action In The Extended New International Trailer

Lee B. Golden III

This summer is a great time to be an otaku if the annual Anime Expo in Los Angeles is within your purview. Consider yourself part of the crowd as well if you’ve been prioritizing a viewing of Hagiwara Kentaro’s forthcoming live-action adaptation of Ishida Sui’s popular manga, Tokyo Ghoul. Kubota Masataka leads the cast of the film which tells of an ordinary college student who befalls the ills of a near-death transformation to a half-human “ghoul”, stumbling into a hidden world of other monsters where epic battles await. Rounding out the cast are Shimizu Fumika, Aoi Yu, Suzuki Nobuyuki and Oizumi Yo for the film’s +18 wristband-approved World Premiere audience at AX 2017 on July 3. The film features a soundtrack by Don Davis (The Matrix Trilogy) with a title track by Radwimps lead singer, Noda Yojiro who produced music for the award-winning anime fantasy, Your Name. Funimation Films will be hosting […]

TOKYO GHOUL: Kubota Masataka Is The Monster Mankind Needs In The Official Trailer

Lee B. Golden III

Currently the subject of a live-action adaptation, Ishida Sui’s hit manga Tokyo Ghoul seems quite an ambitious push for fans knowlegeable of the source material. Clearly the production itself is promising something that moviegoers and fans alike will be keen on upon its July 29 open from Shochiku. For this, the film’s select cast and crew were host to a live online audience over the weekend to a raft of questions, as well as freshly added footage now available in an official trailer that streamed accordingly. The film also took to Cannes last month as well for buyers and so we may very well hear on some overseas distribution news soon. In Tokyo, man-eating monsters called “ghouls” run rampant. The populace has become fearful of these creatures, who hide themselves among ordinary people, and remain shrouded in mystery. Kaneki (Masataka KUBOTA) is an ordinary university student. He frequents a coffee […]

TOKYO GHOUL Teases Duality In The Latest Official Poster

Lee B. Golden III

In keeping up with the spirit of live-action adaptation overload, actor Kubota Masataka is the latest addition to the list of those heading a film of his own with the new movie, Tokyo Ghoul. Directed by Hagiwara Kentaro, the film takes its cues from Ishida Sui’s 2011 horror manga and subsequent anime and is set to release on July 29 from Shochiku, as indicated by the most recent poster now making the rounds. The artwork comes following the above teaser recent earlier this month nodding at the story of Kankei Ken, a University student whose near-fatal close call with a human-eating ghoul transforms him into a half-human ghoul himself, drawing him into a world that exists beneath the normal veneer. Actress Shimizu Fumika in her final role before retiring plays Kirishima Touka, the young woman who reluctantly aids Kankei and helps him adapt to his new life and his newfound […]

Kubota Masataka Dons The Mask In The First TOKYO GHOUL Live Action Teaser

Lee B. Golden III

Morita Shuhei’s animated treatments of Ishida Sui’s 2011 horror manga, Toyko Ghoul, currently remains on my wishlist of titles to catch up on. I’m drawn to it as it is given the premise as it centers on a young university student whose near-fatal chance encounter with a flesh-eating ghoul sets off a chain of events that begin to consume him into life as a half-human ghoul himself among other ghouls in secret from human society. I look forward to sinking my teeth into the series at any rate while Japan distributor Shochiku has since granted moviegoers a first teaser trailer for Anniversary helmer Hagiwara Kentaro’s sophomore outing adapting the film for release in July. Actor Kubota Masataka (13 Assassins, The Last Cop: The Movie) stars as our coming-of-age ghoul struggling to cope with his newfound life, next to actress Shimizu Fumika in the wake of a controversial retirement from acting […]

TOKYO GHOUL Goes Live-Action For The Big Screen Next Year

Lee B. Golden III

Recently there have been murmurs of a live-action adaptation of a Sui Ishida’s 2011 Weekly Shonen Jump manga, Tokyo Ghoul. Well, it turns out word is true and music video and commercial director Kentaro Hagiwara will helm the movie as his feature debut. Kentaro will be joined by Death Note TV series star Masataka Kubota who will play the lead role of Ken Kaneki, a college student whose newfound abilities following a brush of near death with Rize, a Ghoul among many feeding off flesh and living among other humans, forces him to come to terms with the two lives now shares as a half-ghoul while battling both Ghouls and the government forces aimed at wiping them out. As someone who has grown a proclivity toward watching anime this year, I’ve been strongly curious about this series. The fact that its become so popular among fans between books, the anime […]