Live-action film “Saint Young Men” brings Team Jossy’s back – News

The staff for Saint Oniisan The movie ~Holy Men vs Akuma Gundan~ (Holy Men vs Demon Army), the first live-action film by Hikaru Nakamura‘S Holy young men (Saint Oniisan) manga, announced on Tuesday that “Team Joshi-zu” (Team Jossys or “Team Girlz”) will appear in the film. The team also announced the new cast members of the newly formed team and unveiled a new making-of video:

The cast members for the revived Team Jossy’s are:

Haruna Kawaguchi as Joshi-zu Red

Sakura Kiryu as Joshi-zu Green

Miku Tanaka as Joshi-zu Yellow

Hinami Mori as Joshi-zu Blue

Seira Anzai as Joshi-zu Navy

The Jossy’s were formed as a five-member female Japanese Team from 2014 tokusatsu (Special Effects) Comedy of the same name directed by Yuichi Fukuda (who also heads the Saint Oniisan A new incarnation of the team from the Japanese Reiwa era appears in Saint Oniisan Film to end the fight between the “Holy Men” (Jesus and Buddha) and the “Demon Army”.

The comedy manga imagines Buddha and Jesus sharing a cheap apartment in Tokyo without a bathroom.

Returning cast and crew from the manga’s previous live-action series adaptations include Kenichi Matsuyama (Promare‘S Galo Thymos) as Jesus and Shōta Sometani (BELLE’s Kamishin, Suzume‘S Minoru Okabe) as Buddha. Yuichi Fukuda (Live Action Gintama, The catastrophic life of Saiki K. Films) returns to direct the film and write the screenplay, which is based on an expanded story (“Screen e no Nagai Michi” or The Long Road to the Big Screen) that Nakamura created for the film.

Other cast members include:

The cast of Team Heavenly Realm includes (top row, left to right):

• Ryo Katsuji as Taishakuten, the god of war and thunder
• Jiro Sato plays an original character for the film, a fighting hermit
• Mai Shiraishi as Benzaiten, goddess of music and art

(bottom row, from left to right)

Mara family (from left to right):

TOHO will open the film on December 20th.

The staff has declared the 23rd of every month as “Oniisan no Hi” (Young Men’s Day), a play on the Japanese pronunciation, and will announce more information about the film on that day each month until the film’s premiere.

The first live-action season with 10 episodes was broadcast on Cocoa Japan‘S Piccoma TV streaming service in October 2018. The second season was released on Piccoma TV in June 2019 and also in cinemas. The third season premiered on NHK in January 2020. Each season has 10 episodes.

Nakamura published the manga in Kodansha‘S Tomorrow two Magazine in 2006. The manga won the Short Story Award at the 13th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2009 and was also nominated for a Manga Taisho Award that same year.

The manga inspired an anime film that premiered in Japan in May 2013. The eighth and ninth volumes of the manga are both bundled Original Anime DVDs when they were delivered in December 2012 and July 2013 respectively.

Kodansha Publishing publishes the manga digitally in English.

Sources: TOHO Films’ Youtube Channel, Comic Natalie