Kodansha announced on Thursday that Hikaru Nakamura's Saint Young Men (Saint Oniisan) manga is inspiring the first live-action film titled Saint Oniisan The Movie ~Holy Men vs Akuma Gundan~ (Holy Men vs Demon Army). TOHO will premiere the film on December 20.
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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) as Jesus. 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 the film.
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 announce more information about the drama on that day every month until the series is released. movie released. opening. TOHO posted a special roundtable discussion between the two stars and the writer-director to announce the film:
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The first 10-episode live-action season premiered on Kakao Japan's Piccoma TV streaming service in October 2018. The second season began streaming 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.
The comedy manga imagines if Buddha and Jesus shared a low-rent apartment in Tokyo without a bathroom. 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 inspired an anime film that premiered in Japan in May 2013. The eighth and ninth volumes of the manga were both included with the original anime DVD when they were published respectively in December 2012. and July 2013.
Publisher Kodansha USA is releasing the manga digitally in English.
Source: Eiga Natalie