Netflix to Produce a Live-Action ERASED Series

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Netflix announced that they are producing a Japanese live-action series adaptation of Boku dake ga Inai Machi (ERASED). The series will premier in 190 countries later this year during the Winter season.

Ten Shimoyama (SHINOBI – Heart Under Blade) will direct the series. ERASED will be filmed in 4K resolution in Tomakomai City, which is the location the manga is set in.

Netflix even announced some of the cast for the series:

Top row, left to right:

Reo Uchikawa as Satoru Fujinuma (child)

Mio Yūki as Airi Katagiri

Rinka Kakihara as Kayo Hinazuki (child)

Middle row, left to right:

Shigeyuki Totsugi as Gaku Yashiro

Yūki Furukawa as Satoru Fujinuma (adult)

Tomoka Kurotani as Sachiko Fujinuma

Bottom row, left to right:

Noriko Eguchi as Akemi Hinazuki

Jin Shirasu as Kenya Kobayashi (adult)

Hidekazu Mishima as Sawada

ERASED is a fantasy thriller created by Kei Sanbe. The series follows Satoru Fujinuma, a 29-year-old manga artist who possesses an uncontrollable ability that turns back time before a life-threatening accident occurs. When his mom is murdered, Satoru’s ability takes him 18 years in the past, just before a life altering event happened to him. He believes stopping the kidnapping and murder of classmate Kayo Hinazuki will right the timeline.

A-1 Pictures produced a 12 episode anime adaptation with an original ending during the Winter 2016 season. A live-action movie also opened in Japan on March 19, 2016.

Are you planning on watching Netflix’s adaptation of ERASED?



http://goboiano.com/netflix-to-produce-a-live-action-erased-series/

https://www.netflix.com/title/80173711

 

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[OnSlaught]

Thanks DB. I watch the original anime and the movie before seeing the Netflix one to find out if they fucked it up.

I wish they would have done some Netflix series of episodes with Steven King's The Dark Tower saga. Shit is like 8 books and they made it into a shitty film (great acting by Idris and Matthew though)...

 

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[veritech]

I am amazed that Netflix is going with a Japanese cast . Wow.

 

[simonmarcel]

I don't watch anime and didn't know this was an adaptation of an anime, but a few minutes into it I thought "this seems like an anime." I did a search and found this thread. This was really good. This was a perfect example of something they could've tried to make into a movie but they would've had to cram so much into it that it wouldn't have done it justice. There was a moment in the final episode that made me a little uneasy:

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When Satoru's mother tells him she saw the note he gave to the little girl, and called him "smooth", I was like "is this lady trying to imply she thinks this 28 year old man has romantic intentions with a 12-13 year old and she's cool with that?