DEMON CITY Raises Hell For Toma Ikuta In The Official Trailer
Toma Ikuta stars in the live-action adaptation of the hit manga!
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DEMON CITY: Netflix Teases Its Latest Killer Live-Action Adaptation From ‘Melancholic’ Director
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. […]
CONFESSION Presents A Chilling Showdown In The First Trailer For Nobuhiro Yamashita’s Live-Action Suspense Thriller
Taking its cues from Kodansha’s 2001 manga hit, Let’s Go Karaoke! director Nobuhiro Yamashita’s latest is Confession, a wintery murder thriller set to arrive in May from Gaga Corporation. The Mole Song trilogy star Toma Ikuta stars in the film along with #Manhole co-star Nao, and South Korean transplant Yang Ik-joon who’s appeared in Believer 2, and Yoshiyuki Kishi’s back-to-back twofer, Wilderness with Masaki Suda. Jiyong gets seriously injured in a blizzard during a mountain trek with Asai, an old friend from college. Facing death, Jiyong confesses that he killed Asai’s ex-girlfriend Sayuri who went missing 16 years ago. The wind suddenly weakens, however, and the two find an empty hut nearby. Having escaped the freeze, Jiyong now demands Asai to confess his own sins. Altitude-sickened Asai is driven into a corner when he vaguely sees Jiyong approaching him with a knife in hand… Gaga is also handling international sales […]
Strap In Butt Naked For THE MOLE SONG: FINAL First Trailer!
The bumbling cop-turned-gangster shenanigans are back for one last hoorah with word that celebrated auteur Takashi Miike, currently on the road with trailers for his upcoming fantasy sequel The Great Yokai War: Guardians, just wrapped his curtain closure for the screen-adapted The Mole Song trilogy with The Mole Song: Final. Actor Toma Ikuta reprises his lead role based on Noboru Takahashi’s onward 2005 manga series, with a screenplay by celebrated scribe Kankuro Kudo. As reported by Variety‘s Mark Schilling, the new film sees our haphazard hero, Reiji (Ikuta Toma) sent on an infiltration mission via luxury cruise ship to stop a billion dollar drug shipment, a mission that ultimately pits him against his strongest enemy yet. The first short teaser is online which you can view above as the campaign begins ahead of the film’s release in Japan on November 19 from Toho.