Tokyo Ghoul Live-Action Film Releases New Trailer

Tokyo Ghoul fans, get ready to get your best look at the anime's live-action film yet. Not long ago, the folks behind the ambitious project released their longest trailer yet for Tokyo Ghoul. The 3-minute clip previews the film's theme song, and it includes new footage of characters like Ken, Touka, and Rize.

The band RADWIMPS is the group who performs Tokyo Ghoul's theme song. The track is titled "Banka" and features guitarist Yojiro Noda who is better-known as Illion. The group gained international attention earlier this year for providing music for Your Name, a critically acclaimed anime feature directed by Makoto Shinkai.

If you are eager to see Tokyo Ghoul, then you will want to get a convention pass for Anime Expo 2017. The film will premiere at the event on July 3rd before screening in Berlin and Japan. The film will have its nationwide release on July 29 before Funimation brings the film to internationally markets. Theaters in North America, Taiwan, Germany, and more will get to screen the film. Dates have not yet been announced for US showings.

Tokyo Ghoul's live-action film is being directed by Kentaro Hagiwara. Production on the film took place between last July and Septemeber. Don Davis is overseeing the film's scoring while Nicholos Becker does special effects.

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.