#Netflix’s Live-Action City Hunter Releases This April

Netflix Japan has revealed that the live-action City Hunter adaptation is coming this year: April 25, to be specific.

A few shots from the show, which is set in modern Shinjuku, were shown in a recent 2024 live-action lineup video. One of these is an action snippet in which a large metal sheet — the only thing standing between Ryouhei Suzuki‘s Ryo Saeba and a row of automatic gunfire — spins wildly from bullet impact. An earlier preview sees Ryo swinging from a skyscraper and taking aim mid-air.

Production of Netflix’s City Hunter was announced in December 2022. Yuuichi Satou (Na mo Naki Sekai no End Roll) is directing based on a script by Tatsuro Mishima (Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead live-action). Misato Morita plays Ryo’s partner Kaori Makimura.

The Shueisha-published manga by Tsukasa Houjou ran from 1985 to 1991. Two spin-offs from other manga artists began in 2017 and 2018, respectively. An anime TV series adaptation of City Hunter aired in 1987 and inspired a few more seasons, TV specials, and movies. A new anime movie was released in 2023.

The Mangahot website publishes the manga in English and describes the premise as:

Ryo Saeba, a.k.a. City Hunter. A sweeper who fulfills all his client’s needs. He’ll do anything from bodyguarding to contract killing, but he’ll only take the job if a pretty woman is involved, or the client’s sincerity makes his heart tremble. Together with his partner Kaori Makimura, the kid sister of his late best friend, Ryo fights the evil haunting the shadows of the city!!

The Netflix series is the first Japanese live-action adaptation of the manga. There have previously been a 1993 movie starring Jackie Chan, a 2019 French adaptation, and an unreleased Chinese adaptation.

Source: @NetflixJP

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