Tokyo Ghoul Live-Action Film Debuts Theatrical Poster

The road to the new live-action Tokyo Ghoul has not been easy for fans as at times it looked like the movie be happening. There was different trouble in production, from news that one of the main stars in the film, Fumika Shimizu, announcing that she would be retiring from acting to join a cult, to the date pushed back. But the date of the release has been confirmed for July 29th. Now there is a new visual which is an unpated version of the original image that was released of Masataka Kubota, in costume as Ken Kaneki, with the quote “Humans are no longer top of the food chain”.

There is already a live-action Tokyo Ghoul sequel is planned even though there is no specific information on the film. The film will first debut in Tokyo on July 29th with the Tokyo Ghoul Road Show.

If you are unfamiliar with Tokyo Ghoul, Viz Media describes the story below:

“Ghouls live among us,​ the same as normal people in every way – except their craving for human flesh.​ Shy Ken Kaneki is thrilled to go on a date with the beautiful Rize.​ But it turns out that she’s only interested in his body – eating it,​ that is.​ When a morally questionable rescue transforms him into the first half-human half-Ghoul hybrid,​ Ken is drawn into the dark and violent world of Ghouls,​ which exists alongside our own.​”

The series debuted in September 2011 thanks to mangaka Sui Ishida. Weekly Young Jump first published the manga before it was adapted into an anime series by Pierrot. The anime premiered in July 2014 before a second season ran in January 2015. A third season has yet to be announced by any party.

Tokyo Ghoul is set in an alternate reality where creatures known as ghouls exist. The horrifying monsters survive by consuming human flesh and live amongst humans in secret. The story follows a boy named Ken Kaneki after a date-gone-wrong leaves him a half-ghoul. Struggling to adapt to his new life, Ken tries his best to fit into ghoul society, keep his monstrous status hidden from humans, and reign in the insatiable hunger he has for flesh.