Netflix Japan announced on Thursday that Tsukasa Hojo's City Hunter manga is receiving a Japanese live-action movie adaptation. The movie is scheduled to premiere worldwide on Netflix in 2024.

Ryouhei Suzuki (Hentai Kamen) is starring as Ryou Saeba. Yuuichi Satou (Kisaragi) is directing the movie with Tatsuhiro Mishima handling the script. Yoshihide Ootomo (Inu-Ou) is composing the music. Shinichi Takahashi is serving as the executive producer, with Keisuke Sanpei and Kousuke Oshida being credited as producers.

Hojo serialized the comedy detective manga in Weekly Shounen Jump magazine from February 1985 to November 1991. The manga inspired four television anime, an original video anime, four anime movies, and three specials

City Hunter: Shinjuku Private Eyes, the latest anime movie in the franchise, premiered in February 2019, grossing over 1.5 billion yen at the box office. A new anime movie, City Hunter: The Movie, is scheduled to open in theaters in 2023.

The series was also previously adapted into multiple live-action adaptations outside Japan, including a Hong-Kong live action movie released in 1993, as well as a French live-action movie titled Nicky Larson et le parfum de Cupidon in February 2019.

Source: Comic Natalie