The official website for Saint Oniisan The Movie ~Holy Men vs Akuma Gundan~ (Holy Men vs Demon Army), the first live-action film adaptation of Hikaru Nakamura's Saint Young Men (Saint Oniisan) manga, announced on Monday that Tatsuya Fujiwara (Death Note, Battle Royale, Kaiji) will join the film's cast as Lucifer, Michael's older brother and the fallen angel who once led the angels.
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This is Fujiwara's latest collaboration with co-star Kenichi Matsuyama in a live-action film adapted from a manga, following Death Note, Kaiji, and Noise. It is also Fujiwara's first role in a work by talented director Yūichi Fukuda.
The staff also released a new making video featuring Fujiwara as Lucifer:
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The comic imagines what it would be like if Buddha and Jesus shared a cheap rented apartment in Tokyo with no bathroom.
Returning cast and staff from the manga's previous live-action film series include Kenichi Matsuyama (Promare's Galo Thymos) as Jesus and Shōta Sometani (BELLE's Kamishin, Suzume's Minoru Okabe) as Buddha. Yūichi Fukuda (live-action Gintama, The Disastrous Life of Saiki K. films) will return to direct the film and write the script based on an extended story (“Screen e no Nagai Michi” or The Long Road to the Big Screen) Nakamura created for the film.
Other cast members include:
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TOHO will release the film on December 20.
The staff has designated the 23rd of every month as “Oniisan no Hi” (Youth Day) as a pun on the Japanese pronunciation, and they will release more information about the film on that day every month until the film premieres.
The first 10-episode live-action season premiered on Kakao's Piccoma TV streaming service in Japan in October 2018. The second season began airing on Piccoma TV in June 2019 and was also shown in theaters. The third season premiered on NHK in January 2020. Each season has 10 episodes.
Nakamura debuted the manga in Kodansha's Morning two magazine in 2006. The manga won the Short Story Award at the 13th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2009 and was also nominated for the Manga Taisho award in the same year.
The manga inspired an anime film that premiered in Japan in May 2013. The eighth and ninth volumes of the manga both bundled the original anime DVD when they were released in December 2012 and July 2013, respectively.
Publisher Kodansha USA is releasing the manga digitally in English.
Source: Saint Oniisan The Movie ~Holy Men vs Akuma Gundan~ website, Comic Natalie
