The production team for the live-action adaptation of Kengo Hanazawa's Under Ninja manga released an early “super teaser” video for the film on Thursday. The teaser announced the main cast, writer-director, and a January 24, 2025 release date.
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Kento Yamazaki (live-action Alice in Borderland, Kingdom, Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku, The Disastrous Life of Saiki K., Orange, Hyouka, Your Lie in April) plays the protagonist Kurō Kumogakure and Minami Hamabe (Godzilla Minus One, Shin Kamen Rider, live-action Kakegurui, Saki, The Promised Neverland) plays the female lead Ayaka Noguchi. Yūichi Fukuda (live-action Gintama, Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku, Saint Young Men, The Disastrous Life of Saiki K. movies) will write and direct the film. This is Yamazaki's third leading role in Fukuda's films after Wotakoi and Saiki K., and Hamabe's first major collaboration with either Yamazaki or Fukuda, although Hamabe made a cameo appearance in the Fukuda-directed live-action Super Luongman Mr. Saenai series.
Manga publisher Denpa is releasing the manga in English and describes the series:
A lonely high school student is given the part-time job of his life as a modern-day ninja tasked with carrying out international assassinations.
After World War II, the Allied Command in Japan developed a new agency to help manage terrorism and violence in the Pacific region. The agency employed ninjas, and they were initially tasked with handling internal affairs. Eventually, the program grew to its current form, managing 20,000 ninjas who handled a variety of domestic and international affairs. One of those ninjas was Kuro. The seventeen-year-old high school loser was now poised to become the next line of defense against the potential rise of foreign assassins invading Tokyo.
Hanazawa (I am a Hero) launched the ongoing manga series in Kodansha's Weekly Young Magazine in July 2018.
The manga inspired a television anime, which premiered on October 5. The anime stars Taito Ban as Kurō Kumogakure and Tarusuke Shingaki as Katō.
Source: Comic. Natalie
