'Tokyo Ghoul' Live-Action Movie Announces US Theater Screenings

The live-action Tokyo Ghoul film premiered earlier this year in LA, but soon more stateside fans will get a chance to screen the anticipated film.

Funimation Films announced that the live-action Tokyo Ghoul is getting a domestic theatrical release in certain locations. The film will run from October 16th through the 22nd, and while not available everywhere, more theater announcements are expected in the coming weeks.

You can find a few of the screening locations below.

• Tennessee: Nashville
• Florida: Lakeland, Orlando, and Brandon.
• California: Fresno
• Wisconsin: Appleton
• New Mexico: Albuquerque
• Massachusetts: Lowell, Boston, Cambridge, Dedham, Revere, Randolph, Millbury, Providence
• Mississippi: Madison
• North Carolina: Cary, Raleigh, Fayetteville, Greensboro.
• New Jersey: Brunswick, Voorhees, Manville, Somerdale, South Orange.
• New York: New York City, Brooklyn, Astoria.

To see if your city or local theaters is getting Tokyo Ghoul, you can check out Funimation Films' website here.

The film previously premiered in LA at the Anime Expo on July 3rd, and officially released in Japan on July 29th. The film pulled in over $2 million in its opening weekend with a box office total in Japan of almost $5 million ($4,967,786).

The film is directed by Kentaro Hagiwara with costume designs by Masanori Morikawa and music by Don Davis. Tokyo Ghoul stars Masataka Kubota, Fumika Shimizu, Yuu Aoi, Nobuyuki Suzuki, Yo Oizumi, Kuno Murai, Kenta Hamano, Nozomi Sasaki, Shuntaro Yanagi, Hiyori Sakurada, and Shoko Aida.

For those not familiar with Tokyo Ghoul, the series focuses on a student named Ken Kaneki (Kubota) who meets a girl named Rize (Aoi) at a cafe. They quickly form a friendship, but Kaneki is unaware of what Rize really is. Rize is what is known as a ghoul, a creature that survives by consuming human flesh. Kaneki ends up with with a transplanted organ from Rize, turning him into a ghoul in the process. It is here that Kaneki learns about the world behind the facade he's been living in all these years, and it turns out he has so much to learn.

The movie is based on the Tokyo Ghoul manga created by Sui Ishida, which has spawned a successful anime series as well.

(h/t Anime News Network)

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