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The premiere date for the live-action version of 5 Centimeters Per Second is fast approaching — at least for Japanese fans — and this week the official site of the production unveiled a first teaser trailer that reveals the visuals and tone of the adaptation. It looks like it will be everything that fans hope for, but of course we will only know it for sure after the movie debuts in theaters. A U.S. theatrical or streaming release is yet to be announced.

The trailer recreates some of the most iconic scenes from the original 2007 Makoto Shinkai (Your Name) movie and suggests that it will do a frame-by-frame recreation of some scenes. The trailer is in Japanese, but for Western audiences, it is enough to get the general vibe of the adaptation. It's all there — the parallels between different stages of life, the rocket launch, and, of course, the iconic cherry blossom tree.

The official website for the upcoming live-action film adaptation of Makoto Shinkai's 2007 anime film 5 Centimeters per Second released a main trailer today. The clip revealed that singer-songwriter Masayoshi Yamazaki's hit song "One more time, One more chance," which was featured in Shinkai's original anime film, is again used as an insert song in the live-action film. 5 Centimeters per Second Main Trailer "One more time, One more chance" was originally released as Yamazaki's fourth CD single on January 22, 1997. "When this song 'One more time, One more chance' was used in the 2007 theatrical anime film '5 Centimeters per Second,' I feel that director Makoto Shinkai breathed new life into this song," said Yamazaki. "I am honored that the song will be used again in the live-action version. I think this is a very fortunate song that has been loved by everyone. I am looking forward to...

As a work of fiction, Japanese director Yuya Danzuka’s Brand New Landscape would stand out as both an intellectually precocious and impressively assured debut feature. The 26-year-old became the youngest filmmaker ever showcased in the Cannes Film Festival’s Directors’ Fortnight section last month, where he earned widespread praise for his elegant interweaving of a Japanese family’s emotional unraveling with meditations on Tokyo’s ceaseless cycles of alienation and renewal. But what many Western critics overlooked is that the film isn’t merely an above-average entry in the arthouse family drama canon — it’s also a bold and provocative act of autobiography.

Brand New Landscape begins with a summer getaway descending into quiet desperation. Shortly after arriving at their seaside vacation home, aspiring landscape designer Hajime (Kenichi Endo) abruptly announces that a pressing career opportunity is calling him back to the city. The exhausted resignation in his wife...

Time heals no wounds in “Brand New Landscape,” an outwardly gentle but subtly cutting domestic drama that begins as a snapshot of a family adrift, fast-forwards to one of a family severed, and proceeds to reflect stoically on the difficulty of familial repair. Tonally unassuming but intellectually ambitious, this promising debut feature from 26-year-old Japanese writer-director Yuiga Danzuka maps these fractured relationships against the fragmented, fast-changing urban geography of Tokyo — as befits the perspective of its emotionally detached architect patriarch — in pursuit of a broader statement about evolving, dispersing family structures in the modern world.

In the wider view, “Brand New Landscape” is perhaps less rewarding than it is up close: Its extended architectural metaphors are thoughtful and ornate but not always legible, and the film has less to say about society at large than it does about three carefully drawn and specifically damaged individuals. As a contained character piece,...

When confronted with the past, do you drive away or turn back to face it? Siblings Ren and Emi (Mai Kiryu) have been estranged from their father (Ken’ichi Endô) for the ten years since he chose a new work opportunity in Tokyo. Ren, now a florist, notices a familiar name on the neighboring workstation’s order card. Propelled by emotion, not logic, he takes on the delivery himself, arriving to discover his father staring back at him through the floor-to-ceiling window of a major exhibition. Clutching the arrangement tight to his chest, there’s a heavy burden to carry.

A feature debut that feels intuitive in its emotional beats, 26-year-old Yuiga Danzuka’s Brand New Landscape takes a snapshot approach to his characters and their lives both together and apart. Danzuka knows how to frame shots to wrenchingly evoke how plate-shifting some moments can feel in our lives. A slight...

Yuiga Danzuka’s Brand New Landscape unfolds as a quietly resonant family drama set against Tokyo’s ever-evolving skyline. Two siblings—Ren, now a measured young orchid courier, and Emi, on the brink of marriage—must confront Hajime, the father whose career-driven absence fractured their childhood. This feature debut, arriving three years after Danzuka’s 2022 short Far, Far Away, balances hushed observation with a sudden drift into the surreal, inviting viewers to reconsider what “home” means when city blocks shift overnight.

Through long takes and expansive 2:1 framing, the film situates private grief within public redevelopment—each gallery exhibit or redeveloped park echoing the siblings’ struggle to map guilt, abandonment and the faint promise of reunion. As Tokyo’s street-level bustle and quiet domestic interiors collide, Danzuka asks whether reconnection can emerge from spaces that once felt irreparably empty—an open question that encourages reflection on how personal histories intersect...

In the shadows of Tokyo’s relentless redevelopment, rising filmmaker Yuiga Danzuka found both the canvas and the subject for his Cannes Directors’ Fortnight selection “Brand New Landscape.” The debut feature transforms the Japanese capital’s architectural flux into a metaphor for a family navigating grief and disconnection. The film is subsequently playing at the Shanghai International Film Festival.

“As someone born and raised in Tokyo, I’ve long felt a complex, hard-to-articulate emotion toward the city’s rapid transformation,” Danzuka says. “When my cultural discomfort with urban life overlapped with deeply personal feelings about my own family, I instinctively felt that this was a story that needed to be made into a film.”

The film follows two siblings grappling with their mother’s absence and the return of their estranged father, a renowned architect, against the backdrop of Tokyo’s ever-changing skyline.

Danzuka, who studied under filmmaker Kunitoshi Manda...

Exclusive:Paris-based sales company Luxbox will handle global sales for Japanese filmmaker Yuiga Danzuka’s family drama Brand New Landscape which will have its world premiere at Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes.

The debut feature follows two siblings navigating the ever-changing landscape of Tokyo haunted by the absence of their mother until the return of their estranged father, a renowned architect, gives the family one last chance to reconcile.

It is produced by Japan’s Siglo with associate producer Lesplos Entertainment. The cast includes Kodai Kurosaki, Kenichi Endo, Haruka Igawa and Mai Kiryu.

Luxbox’s head of international sales Jennyfer Gautier said:...

Netflixcontinues to be a popular streaming platform for action movie fans, with their latest John Wick-esque revenge thriller now finding success and crashing into the top 10. Following the likes of such genre hits as Rebel Ridge, Carry-On, The Shadow Strays, and more, the streamer’s new action offering, the brutal and bloody Demon City, is gradually finding an audience since being released at the end of last month.

An adaptation of the manga "Oni Goroshi" by Masamichi Kawabe, Demon City merges violent revenge action with the supernatural in this tale of a highly skilled hitman who resurrects his deadly skills and cuts a bloody path of vengeance after his wife and daughter are (seemingly) killed. While it does sound a lot like a thousand revenge stories before it, sometimes, a no-nonsense action thriller about a former assassin on the warpath is exactly what you need. Clearly, audiences agree.

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After major action movie successes Rebel Ridge, The Shadow Strays, and more, Netflix presents Demon City, a John Wick-esque revenge thriller and adaptation of the manga "Oni Goroshi" by Masamichi Kawabe, which tells the violent and visceral tale of a legendary hitman who, after his wife and daughter are killed, resurrects his particular set of skills on a bloody path of vengeance. The first reactions to Demon City, which offers gritty action with a supernatural twist, are now in. So, does Demon City continue the streamer’s action movie hot streak? Or this action thriller a disappointing imitation of Keanu Reeves’ dog-loving hitman?

Pramit Chatterjee of Digital Mafia Talkies found it to be very much the former, awarding Demon City a near-perfect score of 4/5 and praising the action on display.

“What Demon City lacks in terms of emotional depth or narrative complexity, it more than makes up for with its balls-to-the-walls,...

A legendary hit man revives from the depths of Hell and unleashes his inner demon in the Japanese genre movie Demon City, now streaming exclusively on Netflix beginning today.

Killing isn’t enough when there’s hell to pay…

Watch the bloody-as-hell official trailer for Demon City below.

In Demon City, now streaming on Netflix, “Just as hit man Shuhei Sakata is about to clean up his act for his family, the mysterious organization Kimen-gumi murders his wife and daughter, pinning the blame on him and sullying his name. After being shot in the head, he miraculously survives but falls into a coma.

“Twelve years later, the Kimen-gumi attacks him again, but his dormant killer instinct awakens, setting him on an epic course of revenge. However, what awaits him is a truth that threatens to completely alter his destiny.”

Toma Ikuta, Masahiro Higashide, Miou Tanaka, Ami Touma, Taro Suruga, Mai Kiryu,...

Revenge is a dish best served bloody in the upcoming Netflix revenge thriller Demon City, and the streamer has now unleashed the first clip from the movie, which lands on the platform later this month. Already being compared to Keanu Reeves’ revenge magnum opus John Wick, Demon City is an adaptation of the manga "Oni Goroshi" by Masamichi Kawabe, the action outing tells the violent tale of a legendary hitman who, after his wife and daughter are killed, demonstrates why he such a reputation as he enacts savage vengeance.

The clip comes courtesy of Netflix (via X/Twitter user @DerekBrocks) and you can check it out below. The footage finds our antihero quickly showing off his fighting prowess as he enters a warehouse and is immediately attacked by multiple adversaries. Throwing fists and feet, the sequence is wonderfully creative, as Tôma Ikuta’s main character finds himself dodging gunfire, knives,...

Netflix has shared an exciting new clip from Demon City (also known as Demon City Oni-Goroshi in Japanese), a live-action adaptation of Masamichi Kawabe’s popular revenge manga Oni-Goroshi. The footage, released on Saturday, features Shūhei Sakata, the film’s main character, taking down his enemies in a silent yet intense fight scene.

Fans won’t have to wait long to see the full film—Demon City is set to premiere worldwide on Netflix on February 27.

The story follows Shūhei Sakata, a man who was wrongly accused of murdering his wife and child. After a failed suicide attempt, in which he was shot in the head but survived, he is sent to a prison hospital, where he remains for 15 years—physically disabled and unable to seek justice. However, once he is finally released, a fateful encounter changes everything, giving him the chance to regain his physical strength and seek...

Killing isn't enough when there's hell to pay. Keanu Reeves may have now retired (mostly) as the dog-loving hitman, John Wick, but Netflix’s latest action thriller, which is set for release this month, has arrived to fill the bullet-shaped hole left behind by Baba Yaga. An adaptation of the manga "Oni Goroshi" by Masamichi Kawabe, Demon City brings to life this violent and visceral tale of a legendary hitman who, after his wife and daughter are killed, resurrects his particular set of skills on a bloody path of revenge. Sound a little familiar?

The gripping first trailer for Demon City has now been unleashed, and promises a quest for vengeance even more bloody and brutal than the endless vendetta John Wick embarks upon after a group of clueless gangsters make the fatal mistake of killing his beloved pooch. Demon City is due to hit Netflix on February 27, 2025, and you...

Netflix Japan's official X (formerly Twitter) announced today that a live-action movie adaptation of Masamichi Kawabe's manga Onigoroshi will stream worldwide on February 27, 2025, under the title Demon City Onigoroshi . "Onigoroshi" literally means Demon Killer in Japanese. Kawabe's original manga ran in Nihon Bungeisha's Weekly Manga Goraku magazine from 2020 to 2024, with the final 16th volume set to release in Japan on February 28, 2025 — one day after the film's worldwide stream begins. The story is set in the provincial city of Shinjo and follows Shuhei Sakata, a professional killer who vows to avenge his beloved wife and daughter. Actor Toma Ikuta (Reiji Kikukawa in the Mogura no Uta live-action film series) plays the protagonist, Shuhei Sakata. "I will be starring in the Netflix movie 'Demon City Onigoroshi,' with almost no dialogue," said Ikuta. "I was given a difficult role that required me to express all my emotions in action. It's aggressive, Netflix!

Erroneously romanticised has been the transition into adulthood, a rite of passage taking on no one form across the vastness of cultures and sociologies seen the world over; by design this serialised levelling up involves the paths of career, wealth, and family, usually all interlocking under the banners of manhood and womanhood, presenting themselves as milestones while seldom considering the exponentially prominent requirement of contingencies to take effect should said transition meet bumps along the road. The privileged pinnacle of youth manifests in the decisions taken towards these heavily trivialised stepping stones; more often than not life, it would seem, has other ideas in mind not as some predestined twist of fate but as cruel twists of the blade pushing ever deeper into an already open wound. Innocence, and naivete, become abandoned, and the vessels they were once attached to are assaulted daily by the grim realities of the world outside of the classroom.

Four years after the first live action Tokyo Ghoul film, a new story based on Sui Ishida's manga comes to screens. This time around, gastronomically restrained half-ghoul hero Ken Kaneki (Masataka Kubota) is no longer wrestling with his conscience, having found a way to live without doing harm, but risks ending up on the menu himself after attracting the attention of the vicious and charismatic Gourmet (Shota Matsuda). Meanwhile, his mentor Tôka (Maika Yamamoto) is trying to persuade him to make more use of his ghoul-based fighting skills, and their friend Shun'ya Shiraishi is caught up in a romance with a human girl (Mai Kiryû). The result is a slice of cannibal horror with a distinctly soapy aftertaste.

If you've left high school and the teen drama that makes up the bulk of this film doesn't do much to hold your interest, what else does it have to offer?...