‘Demon City’ Netflix Review: A Disappointing Live Action Manga Adaptation
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From Digital Frontier & Amuse Inc., Demon City is the latest live-action Manga adaptation for Netflix after previous efforts like 2017’s Death Note & the popular current series Alice in Borderland (Season 3 announced for September 2025).
Based on the manga “Oni Goroshi” by Masamichi Kawabe, the film centers on Shuhei Sakata (Toma Ikuta), a hitman hired to take out the Yakuza gang known as the Kono-gumi as his last job before ending his career. However, after he dispatches the Kono-gumi as requested, the mysterious organization who hired him known as Kimen-gumi, donning demon-faced masks, arrives at his home. Failing to take them out, Sakata can only watch as his family is gunned down right before he takes a bullet himself.
Miraculously, Sakata survives only to see himself sent to a prison hospital as police saw the scene at his home as a murder-suicide attempt. After being in a coma for several years,...
From Digital Frontier & Amuse Inc., Demon City is the latest live-action Manga adaptation for Netflix after previous efforts like 2017’s Death Note & the popular current series Alice in Borderland (Season 3 announced for September 2025).
Based on the manga “Oni Goroshi” by Masamichi Kawabe, the film centers on Shuhei Sakata (Toma Ikuta), a hitman hired to take out the Yakuza gang known as the Kono-gumi as his last job before ending his career. However, after he dispatches the Kono-gumi as requested, the mysterious organization who hired him known as Kimen-gumi, donning demon-faced masks, arrives at his home. Failing to take them out, Sakata can only watch as his family is gunned down right before he takes a bullet himself.
Miraculously, Sakata survives only to see himself sent to a prison hospital as police saw the scene at his home as a murder-suicide attempt. After being in a coma for several years,...
- 2/28/2025
- by Andrew Morgan
- Whats-on-Netflix
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