The decent net attach for Saint Oniisan The Film ~Holy Males vs Akuma Gundan~ (Holy Males vs Demon Military), the first live-action film of Hikaru Nakamura‘s Saint Young Males (Saint Oniisan) manga, launched on Monday that Tatsuya Fujiwara (Loss of life Monitor, Fight Royale, Kaiji) is joining the film’s cast as Lucifer, Michael’s older brother and the fallen angel who as soon as led the Lovely host.
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This is Fujiwara’s most modern collaboration with fellow actor Kenichi Matsuyama in a live-action film of a manga, after Loss of life Monitor, Kaiji, and Noise. It is additionally Fujiwara’s first purpose in a producing 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 rental and not utilizing a bathroom.
The returning cast and workers from the manga’s old live-action sequence adaptations encompass 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 Lifetime of Saiki Okay. motion pictures) is returning to train the film and pen the script based on an prolonged epic (“Screen e no Nagai Michi” or The Long Road to the Astronomical Monitor) that Nakamura created for the film.
The opposite cast members encompass:
- Ryo Katsuji as Taishakuten, the god of warfare and reveal
- Jirō Satō plays an long-established persona for the film, a warfare hermit
- Mai Shiraishi as Benzaiten, goddess of music and art
- Kento Kaku as Brahmā, the non-public conception of the universal 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 2d oldest daughter
- Ryunosuke Kamiki as Johane
- Taiga Nakano as Jūichimen Kannon/Ekādaśamukha
- Takayuki Yamada
- Tsuyoshi Muro
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TOHO will initiate the film on December 20.
The workers members grasp deemed the twenty third of every month as “Oniisan no Hi” (Young Males Day) as a wordplay on Jap pronunciation, and they’ll grunt more recordsdata on the film on that day every month till the film’s opening.
The first 10-episode live-action season premiered on Kakao Japan‘s Piccoma TV streaming carrier in October 2018. The 2d season began streaming on Piccoma TV in June 2019, and additionally 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 Quick Story award on the thirteenth Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2009, and was additionally nominated for a Manga Taisho award within the identical yr.
The manga inspired an anime film that premiered in Japan in Could maybe also 2013. The manga’s eighth and ninth volumes each bundled long-established 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~ net attach, Droll Natalie
