The film debuts on Netflix on April 5. Image via Comic Natalie
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Netflix's Parasyte: The Gray (Kiseiju: The Grey), a live-action adaptation of Hitoshi Iwaaki's Parasyte (Kiseiju) manga, won Best Visual Effects at the Asian Content Awards & Awards Busan Global OTT rewards on Sunday.
The film launches globally on Netflix on April 5.
Jeon So-nee, Koo Kyo-hwan and Lee Jung-hyun star in the film adaptation. Yeon Sang-ho (Train to Busan, Peninsula) directed the project, and wrote the script with Ryu Yong-jae (Peninsula, Money Heist: Korea-Joint Economic Area). Kwon Hae-hyo and Kim In-kwon also star in the film.
The film is based on the manga but tells its own new story. Jeon plays Jeong Su-in, who is attacked by the parasite, but “when it fails to take over her brain, she begins to strangely coexist with it.” Koo's character Seol Kang-woo is in pursuit parasite to find his missing sister. Lee plays the leader of The Gray (a special task force that fights parasites) whose husband is killed by them.
The original manga by Hitoshi Iwaaki was serialized in Kodansha's Afternoon magazine from 1990-1995. The manga takes place in a world where alien creatures called Parasites arrive on Earth and begin taking over humans by entering through their noses and ears and attaching themselves to their brains. An alien named Migi can only take over the right arm of high school student Shinichi Izumi and cannot control Shinichi completely. Migi and Shinichi learn to coexist, and the two fight the other Parasites, who see humans as nothing more than food.
The manga previously inspired an anime television series in 2014 and two live-action films in 2014 and 2015.
Source: Deadline (Sara Merican)