The official X/Twitter account for the live-action film adaptation of Kengo Hanazawa's Under Ninja manga revealed a new trailer and four cast members on Tuesday:
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Image via Under X/Twitter of the live-action movie Ninja account
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The newly announced cast includes (pictured above from left to right starting from the top row):
Image via Under X/Twitter's live action movie Ninja account
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The film will open in theaters in Japan on January 24, 2025.
Kento Yamazaki (live-action Alice in Borderland, Kingdom, Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku, The Disastrous Life of Saiki K., Orange, Hyou-ka, Your Lie in April) plays main characters Kurō Kumogakure and Minami Hamabe ( Godzilla Minus One, Shin Kamen Rider, live-action Kakegurui, Saki, The Promised Neverland) plays the female lead Ayaka Noguchi.
Additional cast includes:
Yūichi Fukuda (live-action Gintama, Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku, Saint Young Men, The Disastrous Life of Saiki K. movies) is writing and directing 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 Yamazaki or Fukuda, although Hamabe guest-starred in the live-action Super series Luongman Mr. Saenai was directed by Fukuda.
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. This agency has ninjas and they are initially tasked with handling internal affairs. Eventually, that program grew to its current form, managing 20,000 ninjas on a variety of domestic and international assignments. One of those ninjas is Kuro. The seventeen-year-old loser is now ready to become the next line of defense against a potential wave of foreign assassins invading Tokyo.
Hanazawa (I am a Hero) launched the ongoing manga in Kodansha's Weekly Young Magazine in July 2018.
The manga inspired a television anime, which premiered in October 2023. The anime stars Taito Ban as Kurō Kumogakure and Tarusuke Shingaki as Katō.
Source: X/Twitter of live-action movie Under Ninja account, Natalie Comics
