The workers for the live-action film of Kengo Hanazawa‘s Under Ninja manga introduced two extra forged members on Tuesday.
Shōtarō Mamiya (Blue Giant, Tokyo Revengers) performs Kato (left within the photos above), an elite ninja within the NIN group who offers the protagonist Kurō Kumogakure an necessary ninja mission . Mai Shiraishi (Saint Younger Males, Asahinagu) performs Suzuki (proper), a intelligent kunoichi (feminine ninja) in NIN — who works as an editor of novels by day.
The movie opens in theaters in Japan on January 24, 2025.
Kento Yamazaki (live-action Alice in Borderland, Kingdom, Wotakoi: Love is Onerous for Otaku, The Disastrous Lifetime of Saiki Ok., Orange, Hyouka, Your Lie in April) performs the protagonist Kurō Kumogakure, and Minami Hamabe (Godzilla Minus One, Shin Kamen Rider, live-action Kakegurui, Saki, The Promised Neverland) performs the heroine Ayaka Noguchi.
Yūichi Fukuda (live-action Gintama, Wotakoi: Love is Onerous for Otaku, Saint Younger Males, The Disastrous Lifetime of Saiki Ok. movies) is writing and directing the movie. That is Yamazaki’s third starring function in Fukuda’s movies after Wotakoi and Saiki Ok., and Hamabe’s first main collaboration with both Yamazaki or Fukuda, though Hamabe guest-starred within the live-action Super Salaryman Mr. Saenai series which Fukuda directed.
Manga writer Denpa is releasing the manga in English, and it describes the collection:
A highschool loner is given the part-time job of a lifetime as a modern-day ninja tasked to carry out worldwide assassinations.
After World Battle II, Allied Command in Japan developed a brand new company to assist handle terrorism and violence inside the Pacific area. The company was staffed with ninja they usually had been initially tasked to deal with home affairs. Ultimately that program grew to its present kind, managing 20,000 ninja throughout a variety of home and worldwide affairs. A kind of ninja occurs to be Kurō. The seventeen-year-old highschool loser is now poised to be the following line of protection towards a possible surge in international assassins invading Tokyo.
Hanazawa (I am a Hero) launched the continuing manga in Kodansha‘s Weekly Young Magazine in July 2018.
The manga inspired a tv anime, which premiered on October 5. The anime starred Taito Ban as Kurō Kumogakure and Tarusuke Shingaki as Katō.
Sources: TOHO Motion pictures’ YouTube channel, Comic Natalie
