The staff for the live-action film of Sui Ishida‘s Tokyo Ghoul manga revealed the film’s overseas poster on Sunday.
The Japanese entertainment news website Cinema Today will also stream a launch event for the film live worldwide. The official website for the film has posted details in English about the event.
The event starts on June 2 at 6:30 p.m. JST (5:30 a.m. EDT). The event will feature appearances by actor Masataka Kubota, director Kentarō Hagiwara, and original manga author Sui Ishida (Ishida’s appearance will be by text through the internet). The event will show a special video for the film, and will also host a question and answer session. Fans can submit questions for the Q&A session from the YouTube chat function for the video.
The film stars:
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
The film will open in Japan on July 29.
Kentarō Hagiwara (“Super Star” short) is directing the film, and the production shot principal photography from last July to September. Masanori Morikawa, a Christian Dada designer and a fan of the original manga, designed the masks and costumes of the ghouls in the film.
Source: Cinema Today