The official website for “Saint Oniisan The Movie Holy Men vs Akuma Gundan” (Holy Men vs Demon Army) has revealed two additional cast members in a new trailer released on Wednesday. Takayuki Yamada and Tsuyoshi Muro will join the film in undisclosed roles.
The live-action adaptation of Hikaru Nakamura’s popular “Saint Young Men” manga imagines a humorous scenario where Buddha and Jesus share a modest Tokyo apartment. The film features returning cast members from previous adaptations: Ken’ichi Matsuyama as Jesus and Shōta Sometani as Buddha. Yūichi Fukuda, known for directing “Gintama” and “The Disastrous Life of Saiki K.,” returns to both direct and write the script, which is based on Nakamura’s extended story “Screen e no Nagai Michi” (“The Long Road to the Big Screen”).
Additional cast includes:
1.Ryo Katsuji as Taishakuten, god of war and thunder
2.Jirō Satō as a new character, a battle hermit
3.Mai Shiraishi as Benzaiten, goddess of music and art
4.Kento Kaku as Brahmā, embodying the universal principle
5.Takanori Iwata as Archangel Michael
6.Masataka Kubota as Mara, a single father and embodiment of human desires
7.Seina Nakata, Mizuki Yamamoto, and Hinako Sakurai as Mara’s daughters
8.Ryunosuke Kamiki as Johane
9.Taiga Nakano as Jūichimen Kannon/Ekādaśamukha
The film will be released by TOHO on December 20. In anticipation, the production team will provide updates on the 23rd of each month, dubbed “Oniisan no Hi” (Young Men Day), leading up to the film’s release.
The manga, first published in Kodansha’s Morning Two magazine in 2006, received the Short Story award at the 13th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2009 and was also nominated for the Manga Taisho award that year. It has inspired an anime film, original anime DVDs bundled with manga volumes, and is currently being released digitally in English by Kodansha USA Publishing.
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