It has been announced that a live-action drama based on Yoshihiro Togashi's popular manga `` Yu Yu Hakusho'' will be distributed worldwide on Netflix on December 14th. It was also announced that the advance screening of the film, ``12.13 Decisive Battle Eve Festival Worldwide Fastest Screening'', will be held on December 13th, the day before the release. Details of the screening will be announced in the future.
The live-action drama will be planned and produced by Netflix, and directed by Sho Tsukikawa. As for the main cast, it has been talked about that actor Takumi Kitamura will play the main character Yusuke Urameshi, Jun Shison will play Kurama, Kanata Hongo will play Hiei, and Shuhei Uesugiwill play Kazuma Kuwabara.
Ryo Sakaguchi, who is the only Japanese recipient of the Academy Award for Science and Technology, will participate as a VFX supervisor. For this film, we assembled a production team that brings together cutting-edge CG and VFX technologies from around the world, including Canada, Australia, and South Korea, including Scanline VFX, which has worked on numerous Hollywood productions. He says he will take on the challenge of "visual expression."
"Yu Yu Hakusho" is a popular manga serialized in "Weekly Shonen Jump" (Shueisha) from 1990 to 1994. The story depicts Yusuke Urameshi, who died but was resurrected as a spirit world detective, and fights against monsters with his friends in order to protect peace between the human world and the spirit world. A TV anime was broadcast from 1992 to 1995. The fact that it was adapted into a stage play also became a hot topic.