Tokyo Ghoul (2017) Tôkyô gûru

Director: Kentarô Hagiwara
Writers: Sui Ishida (manga), Ichirô Kusuno (screenplay)
Stars: Masataka Kubota, Fumika Shimizu, Nobuyuki Suzuki

Ishida Sui's best-selling dark fantasy manga Tokyo Ghoul arrives in cinemas in 2017 in a live-action adaptation directed by Hagiwara Kentaro (Anniversary). Tokyo Ghoul is set in an alternate present-day Tokyo in which super-powered ghouls that subsist on human flesh secretly live amongst humans. The gory action thriller stars Kubota Masataka (Death Note TV drama) as a youth who turns into a half-ghoul after a near-death encounter and must live between two worlds.

Kaneki Ken (Kubota Masataka) is just a normal college student who is aware of ghoul attacks from the news, but doesn't think too much about them otherwise. He is excited to land a date with his crush Rize (Aoi Yu), except she turns out to be a ghoul who wants to make dinner of him. He barely manages to escape death when Rize gets crushed by a falling frame. To save Ken, the hospital transfers an organ from Rize to him, but the operation also turns him into a half-ghoul. At a loss over his newfound powers and appetite for flesh, he gets taken in by the proprietors of a ghoul cafe and gradually learns how to adapt and survive. All ghouls, including those that don't kill, are hunted by the Commission of Counter Ghoul. For Ken and his new friends, obsessed and ruthless CCG investigator Mado Kureo (Oizumi Yo) is even more terrifying than ghouls.

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