The production team of Saint Oniisan The Movie ~Holy Men vs Akuma Gundan~ (Holy Men vs Demon Army), the first live-action film based on Hikaru Nakamura's Saint Young Men (Saint Oniisan) manga, has revealed the cast of the film. Mara family in”Team Demon”through a new behind-the-scenes video on Sunday.
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The cast of the Mara family is (from left to right):
The comedy manga imagines Buddha and Jesus sharing a cheap apartment in Tokyo without a bathroom.
Returning cast and crew from the previous live-action adaptation of the manga include Ken'ichi Matsuyama (Promare's Galo Thymos) as Jesus and Shōta Sometani (BELLE's Kamishin, Suzume's Minoru Okabe) in Buddha role. Yūichi Fukuda (live-action Gintama, The Disastrous Life of Saiki K.) returns to direct the film and write the script based on an expanded story (“Screen e no Nagai Michi” or The Long Road to the Big Screen) Nakamura created for the film.
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The cast of Team Thien Gioi includes (top row, from left to right):
Ryo Katsuji as Taishakuten, god of war and thunder Jirō Satō plays the original film's character, the fighting hermit Mai Shiraishi as Benzaiten, goddess of music and art
(bottom row, left to right)
TOHO will premiere the film on December 20.
The staff considers the 23rd of every month as “Oniisan no Hi” (Youth Day) which is a play on words in Japanese pronunciation, and they will release more information about the film on that day every month until the series is released. movie premiere.
The first 10-episode live-action season premiered on Kakao Japan's Piccoma TV streaming service in October 2018. The second season began airing on Piccoma TV in June 2019 and was also shown in theater. The third season premiered on NHK in January 2020. Each season has 10 episodes.
Nakamura launched the manga in Kodansha's Morning two magazine in 2006. The manga won the Short Story award at the 13th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Awards in 2009 and was also nominated for the Manga Taisho award in the same year.
The manga is inspired by an anime film that premiered in Japan in May 2013. The manga's eighth and ninth volumes were both bundled with the original anime DVD when they were published in December 2012 and July 2013.
Publisher Kodansha USA is releasing the manga digitally in English.
Source: Saint Young Men's X/Twitter accountComic Natalie