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SM Cinema to Screen Live-Action As the Gods Will Film on October 14
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Philippine film distributor SineAsia announced last Thursday that it will screen a Tagalog-dubbed version of the live-action film adaptation of Muneyuki Kaneshiro and Akeji Fujimura's As the Gods Will (Kami-sama no Iu Toori) horror-survival manga on October 14. The film will screen exclusively in SM Cinemas.
The film's Tagalog dub will feature Filipino actor AJ Muhlach as the main character Shun Takahata.
SineAsia describes the film:
As The God's Will is a story of high school students, Shun Takahata (voiced by AJ Muhlach), Ichika Akimoto and Takeru Amaya, who are forced to play a death game without knowing who, why or how. Are they going to survive? How are they going to save each other's lives?
SineAsia also began streaming a Tagalog-dubbed trailer for the film on Tuesday.
WATCH THE TRAILER: As the Gods Will Tagalized!It all started when teenagers Shun Takahata (Sōta Fukushi), sees his life as boring and Takeru Amaya (Ryunosuke Kamiki) questions his life's purpose. One day, all of that changes when they are forced to play death game stages without knowing why and who among them will survived. Never miss the chance and watch As the Gods Will Tagalized on Oct. 14 exclusive in SM Cinemas! #AsTheGodsWill #SineAsia #SotaFukushi #RyunosukeKamiki #MioYuki #HironaYamakazi #SometaniShota
Posted by SineAsia on Monday, October 5, 2015
The film premiered in Japan in November 2014.
Takashi Miike (Crows Zero, Ichi the Killer) directed the film, and it stars Sōta Fukushi (live-action Library Wars/Toshokan Sensō) as Shun Takahata. Hirona Yamazaki (Lesson of the Evil, Kyō, Koi o Hajimemasu) will play Shun's childhood friend Ichika Akimoto, and Ryunosuke Kamiki (Summer Wars, Howl's Moving Castle, Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Taika-hen) will play Shun's violence-loving classmate Takeru Amaya.
Kaneshiro wrote the story while Fujimura drew the artwork for the Kami-sama no Iu Toori manga's first arc in Kodansha's monthly Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine from 2011 to 2012. The manga resumed with a second arc ("Ni") in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine in 2013, and is currently running. Kodansha published the manga's 13th compiled book volume on August 17, and will publish the 14th volume on October 16.
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