Netflix began streaming the English-subtitled trailer for the Japanese live-action film adaptation of Tsukasa Hōjō’s City Hunter manga on Friday. The video reveals and introduces the film’s theme song “Get Wild Continual”, a new version of TM Network’s iconic ending song “Get Wild” from the first City Hunter anime.
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Ryōhei Suzuki (HK/Hentai Kamen, Tokyo Tribe, Tokyo MER) plays Ryō Saeba and Misato Morita (One Week Friends, Koi Suru Haha-tachi) plays the female lead Kaori Makimura. Masanobu Andō (Rohan at the Louvre, Rurouni Kenshin Saishūshō The Beginning’s Shinsaku Takasugi) will play Hideyuki Makimura, Ryō Saeba’s partner, and Fumino Kimura (Rohan at the Louvre) will play detective Saeko Nogami.
The film will premiere on Netflix worldwide on April 25.
Although the manga has inspired live-action adaptations in Hong Kong, South Korea and France, this is the first City Hunter film to be shot on the real-life streets of Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward. The film changes its setting from the late 20th century to modern times, but retains Saeba’s long coat from the manga, instead of the coat seen in the anime adaptation. (The movie turns the Balmacaan jacket from the manga into a belted jacket.)
Yuichi Sato (Kisaragi, live-action Nōnai Poison Berry) will direct the film. Tatsuhiro Mishima (live-action Yu Yu Hakusho) wrote the script and Yoshihide Otomo (INU-OH, Lupine Zero, live-action Orange) composed the music. Shinichi Takahashi is executive producer, Keisuke Sanpei and Kosuke Oshida are producing. Netflix is co-producing with HoriPro and Office Shirous.
Coamix and Imagineer’s MangaHot app and website are publishing the City Hunter manga in English, and MangaHot describes the story:
Ryo Saeba, aka City Hunter. A cleaner who attends to every customer’s needs. He will do anything from a bodyguard to a contract killer, but he will only take the job if a beautiful woman is involved, or the client’s sincerity takes his heart. vibrate. Together with his partner Kaori Makimura, the younger sister of his late best friend, Ryo fights the evil that haunts the darkness of the city!!
Hojo’s City Hunter manga ran from 1985 to 1991 and had 35 volumes. The manga has inspired four anime television series, an earlier anime film, and several videos and television specials including the 2015 original anime DVD. ADV Films has released most of these anime projects in North America. The original anime premiered in April 1987. The animated film City Hunter: Shinjuku Private Eyes opened in Japan in February 2019, and the film City Hunter The Movie: Angel Dust opened on September 8.
Discotek Media announced the license of the original City Hunter anime projects and the recent City Hunter: Shinjuku Private Eyes film in April 2019. Crunchyroll is streaming the anime series, specials, and City television series Hunter.
Jackie Chan starred in a 1993 Hong Kong live-action film very loosely adapted from the original manga. A live-action South Korean television series adaptation premiered in 2011, and Hulu streamed the version in the United States. A French live-action film adaptation opened in France in February 2019. A separate Chinese live-action film adaptation has been green-lit in China.
Source: Netflix Asia YouTube channel, Natalie Comics