The official web site for Saint Oniisan The Film ~Holy Males vs Akuma Gundan~ (Holy Males vs Demon Military), the primary live-action film of Hikaru Nakamura‘s Saint Young Men (Saint Oniisan) manga, introduced on Monday that Tatsuya Fujiwara (Death Note, Battle Royale, Kaiji) is becoming a member of the movie’s forged as Lucifer, Michael’s older brother and the fallen angel who as soon as led the Heavenly host.
That is Fujiwara’s newest collaboration with fellow actor Kenichi Matsuyama in a live-action movie of a manga, after Demise Be aware, Kaiji, and Noise. Additionally it is Fujiwara’s first position in a manufacturing from prolific director Yūichi Fukuda.
The workers additionally debuted a brand new making-of video that includes Fujiwara as Lucifer:
The comedy manga imagines if Buddha and Jesus shared a low-rent Tokyo house with no lavatory.
The returning forged and workers from the manga’s earlier live-action series variations embrace 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. movies) is returning to direct the movie and pen the script based mostly on an prolonged story (“Display screen e no Nagai Michi” or The Lengthy Street to the Massive Display screen) that Nakamura created for the movie.
The opposite forged members embrace:
- Ryo Katsuji as Taishakuten, the god of battle and thunder
- Jirō Satō performs an authentic character for the movie, a battle hermit
- Mai Shiraishi as Benzaiten, goddess of music and artwork
- Kento Kaku as Brahmā, the private conception of the common precept
- Takanori Iwata as Archangel Michael
- Masataka Kubota as Mara, the incarnation of human needs who raised his daughters by himself as a single father
- Seina Nakata as Mara’s youngest daughter
- Mizuki Yamamoto as Mara’s oldest daughter
- Hinako Sakurai as Mara’s second oldest daughter
- Ryunosuke Kamiki as Johane
- Taiga Nakano as Jūichimen Kannon/Ekādaśamukha
- Takayuki Yamada
- Tsuyoshi Muro
TOHO will open the movie on December 20.
The workers members have deemed the twenty third of each month as “Oniisan no Hello” (Younger Males Day) as a wordplay on Japanese pronunciation, and they’ll announce extra info on the film on that day each month till the movie’s opening.
The primary 10-episode live-action season premiered on Kakao Japan‘s Piccoma TV streaming service in October 2018. The second season started streaming on Piccoma TV in June 2019, and in addition screened in theaters. The third season premiered on NHK in January 2020. Every season has 10 episodes.
Nakamura launched the manga in Kodansha‘s Morning two journal in 2006. The manga won the Brief Story award on the thirteenth Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2009, and was additionally nominated for a Manga Taisho award in the identical 12 months.
The manga inspired an anime movie that premiered in Japan in Might 2013. The manga’s eighth and ninth volumes both bundled original anime DVDs after they shipped in December 2012 and July 2013, respectively.
Kodansha USA Publishing is releasing the manga digitally in English.
Sources: Saint Oniisan The Film ~Holy Males vs Akuma Gundan~ website, Comic Natalie
