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TMC Airs Live-Action Tokyo Ghoul Film in the Philippines on February 15

Philippine television channel TMC revealed on Friday that it will air the live-action Tokyo Ghoul film with a Tagalog dub on February 15 at 8:00 p.m.

The film premiered last year on July 3 at Anime Expo in Los Angeles, July 7 in Berlin, and July 10 at the Marunouchi Piccadilly theater in Chiyoda, Japan before its wide theatrical release in Japan on July 29. The film ranked #5 in its opening weekend in Japan.

Viva International Pictures opened the film in the Philippines last September.

The cast includes:

• Masataka Kubota (live-action Death Note, Mars, Photo Braver 7 television series) as Ken Kaneki
• Fumika Shimizu as Tōka Kirishima
• Yū Aoi (live-action Rurouni Kenshin's Megumi) as Rize Kamishiro
• EXILE's Nobuyuki Suzuki as Kōtarō Amon
• Yō Ōizumi (voice of Layton in the Professor Layton series) as Kureo Mado
• Kunio Murai (live-action Nobunaga Concerto) as Kuzen Yoshimura
• Kenta Hamano (live-action Moteki) as Enji Koma
• Nozomi Sasaki (One Piece Film Z) as Kaya Irimi
• Shuntarō Yanagi (live-action Crows Explode) as Renji Yomo
• Hiyori Sakurada (live-action Nigakute Amai) as Hinami Fueguchi
• Shōko Aida (The Case of Hana & Alice) as Ryōko Fueguchi
• Kai Ogasawara as Hideyoshi "Hide" Nagachika
• Kabuki actor Minosuke Bandō as Uta
• Shunya Shiraishi as Nishio Nishiki
• Seika Furuhata as Yoriko Kosaka
• Tomoya Maeno as Ippei Kusaba
• Dankan as Hisashi Ogura
• Ryō Iwamatsu as Akihiro Kanō

Kentarō Hagiwara ("Super Star" short) directed the film, and the production shot principal photography from July to September 2016. Masanori Morikawa, a Christian Dada designer and a fan of the original manga, designed the masks and costumes of the ghouls in the film. Don Davis (The Matrix film trilogy) composed the film's music, and Nicholas Becker (Arrival, Zero Gravity, Batman Begins) was in charge of sound special effects. RADWIMPS band songwriter and guitarist Yōjirō Noda performed the theme song "Banka," under the name illion.