News culture Netflix unveils a first trailer full of humor for a new adaptation of this cult manga
Publié le 16/03/2024 à 10:00
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A new manga adaptation will soon burst onto Netflix, and this time it's a cult work from the 80s and 90s. This manga with its somewhat eccentric concept has already © has been adapted several times, even by a French director. But this time, this crazy hero will be back in Japan, and the crazy tone of his first trailer promises a faithful adaptation!
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The famous Japanese womanizer is back
When we talk about cult manga from the 80s and 90s, we often think of classics like Ghost in the Shell or Dragon Ball, which unfortunately lost its creator not long ago, but also works that still endure today like Sailor Moon, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, and of course One Piece, on which Netflix set out last year to produce a live action series. And obviously, this manga will not be its only victim, since another adaptation of a cult manga will soon arrive at the SVOD giant…
Some know him as Ryô Saeba and others prefer to call it Nicky Larson, but whatever happens, the manga hero City Hunter will soon be back in a live-action film. This time, it will not be a French production, as was the case for Nicky Larson and the Scent of Cupid, the 2018 film that we owe to Philippe Lacheaubut rather a collaboration between Netflix and the director YÅ«ichi SatÅ (The Master Plan, Kisaragi). In the casting, we find Ryohei Suzuki (Egoist) in the main role, Misato Morita (Missing) in the role of Kaoriet Masanobu Andô (Battle Royale) in that of his brother, Hideyuki.
The “Mokkori” dance soon on Netflix
The story of City Hunter focuses on Ryô Saeba (or Nicky Larson), a womanizer who tries to clean up the streets of Tokyo by getting rid of the thugs who roam there, all accompanied by Hideyuki Makimura, a former police officer. But Ryo has the particularity of only accepting contracts given by pretty women, to the great dismay of Kaori Makimura, Hideyuki's sister, who seems to have feelings for Ryô. The first images of the film were revealed last month through a teaser that you will find at the top of this article, but it is in a trailer full of humor that Netflix highlighted the zany side of the “cleaner”:
The trailer opens with a little song which may seem perky, but whose lyrics are rather explicit. “Mokkori” is a term popularized by City Hunter in the 1980s, and is an onomatopoeia meant to represent an erection, which Ryo often used in reference to the beautiful young women to whom he hopes to be of service. Obviously, the identity of Nicky Larson remains intact, and this adaptation has nothing to envy of its predecessors in terms of questionable humor. That said, the action scenes shown in this trailer look rather qualitative and seem to totally correspond to the crazy concept of the hero created by Tsukasa Hojo. To see if this applies to the entire feature film, which you can find from April 25, 2024 on Netflix !
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