Matt Schley
September 23, 2024 
Under Ninja, the action-comedy manga from Kengo Hanazawa (I Am a Hero) is getting a live-action film, and the movie just revealed a couple of the film’s stars, posters and a teaser trailer.
The film is set to hit screens in Japan on January 24, 2025.
The dual posters show the newly revealed actors, Shotaro Mamiya and Mai Shiraishi, in their roles as Kato and Suzuki, respectively.
Previously announced stars include Kento Yamazaki as Kurō Kumogakure and Minami Hamabe as Noguchi.
The movie is written and directed by Yuichi Fukuda, who directed the live-action Gintama and Saint Young Men films.
An anime adaptation of the manga aired from October to December of 2023.
Hanazawa’s Under Ninja manga is published by Denpa, who describe it like this:
After World War II, Allied Command in Japan developed a new agency to help manage terrorism and violence within the Pacific region. The agency was staffed with ninja and they were initially tasked to handle domestic affairs. Eventually that program grew to its current form, managing 20,000 ninja across a range of domestic and international affairs. One of those ninja happens to be Kudo. The seventeen-year-old high school loser is now poised to be the next line of defense against a potential surge in foreign assassins invading Tokyo.
Source: Comic Natalie
