Tokyo Ghoul Live Action Film Delayed in the Philippines Until September
Viva International Pictures, a film distributor from the
Philippines recently announced that the Tokyo Ghoul live action film is delayed
until September 6, 2017. The film was originally going to open on August 9.
The company is also streaming the English sub title trailer of
Tokyo Ghoul.
A kickoff event for the film revealed last month that they
will open it in 10 Southeast Asian countries such as Taiwan,
Hong Kong, Macao, Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei, Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand,
and the Philippines. Moreover, the film will also screen in Germany, Austria,
Switzerland, Australia, New Zealand, the United States, Canada, Korea, China,
Spain, Italy, the United Kingdom, and Ireland.
As a matter of fact, it was
premiered on July 3 at Anime Expo in Los Angeles including Berlin on July 7 and
at the Marunouchi Piccadilly theater in Chiyoda, Japan on July 10. Tokyo Ghoul
ranked as the no. 5 Japanese box office film.
The Casts
The cast includes:
- Masataka Kubota (live-action Death Note, Mars, Photo Braver 7 television series) as Ken Kaneki
- Fumika Shimizu as Tōka Kirishima
- Yuu Aoi (live-action Rurouni Kenshin's Megumi) as Rize Kamishiro
- EXILE's Nobuyuki Suzuki as Kōtarō Amon
- Yo Oizumi (voice of Layton in the Professor Layton series) as Kureo Mado
- Kunio Murai (live-action Nobunaga Concerto) as Kuzen Yoshimura
- Kenta Hamano (live-action Moteki) as Enji Koma
- Nozomi Sasaki (One Piece Film Z) as Kaya Irimi
- Shuntarō Yanagi (live-action Crows Explode) as Renji Yomo
- Hiyori Sakurada (live-action Nigakute Amai) as Hinami Fueguchi
- Shōko Aida (The Case of Hana & Alice) as Ryōko Fueguchi
- Kai Ogasawara as Hideyoshi "Hide" Nagachika
- Kabuki actor Minosuke Bandō as Uta
- Shunya Shiraishi as Nishio Nishiki
- Seika Furuhata as Yoriko Kosaka
- Tomoya Maeno as Ippei Kusaba
- Dankan as Hisashi Ogura
- Ryō Iwamatsu as Akihiro Kanō
The director of the film is KentaroHagiwara or also known as the Super Star. Masanori Morikawa is the designer and
an avid fan of the original manga series. He designed the costumes and masks of
the Tokyo Ghoul. Don Davis from The Matrix Trilogy film composed the songs and
Nicholas Becker from Arrival, Zero Gravity, Batman Begins was in charge of the
special sound effects.
The RADWIMPS guitarist and
songwriter, Yojiro Noda performed the theme song called Banka.
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