The film version of the hugely successful cop show will feature the lead actors from TV series.
Red Arrow International have announced that the hit Japanese TV series The Last Cop will get a film adaptation.
They have agreed a deal with Japanese production company Nippon Television Network Corporation.
The film is in pre-production with the working title, Last Cop: The Movie and will be released in Japan in May 2017.
The lead actors from the television show, Toshiaki Karasawa (20th Century Boys) and Masataka Kubota (Death Note), will reprise their roles for movie adaptation.
The Last Cop sees Karasawa play around a detective who is put in a coma after pursuing a vicious criminal. He wakes up 30 years later and must work with a new young partner (Kubota) to bring his nemesis to justice.
The show received a huge 12.9% audience share when it premiered on Nippon TV in October and was a huge success on Hulu Japan...
Red Arrow International have announced that the hit Japanese TV series The Last Cop will get a film adaptation.
They have agreed a deal with Japanese production company Nippon Television Network Corporation.
The film is in pre-production with the working title, Last Cop: The Movie and will be released in Japan in May 2017.
The lead actors from the television show, Toshiaki Karasawa (20th Century Boys) and Masataka Kubota (Death Note), will reprise their roles for movie adaptation.
The Last Cop sees Karasawa play around a detective who is put in a coma after pursuing a vicious criminal. He wakes up 30 years later and must work with a new young partner (Kubota) to bring his nemesis to justice.
The show received a huge 12.9% audience share when it premiered on Nippon TV in October and was a huge success on Hulu Japan...
- 12/7/2016
- ScreenDaily
The Last Cop, a German high-concept crime series, is getting a Japanese film adaptation.
Japan's Nippon TV, which scored a hit with their local-language version of the show, announced on Wednesday they are in preproduction on a movie spinoff, tentatively titled: The Last Cop: The Movie.
Nippon TV and Red Arrow International, the German group that controls the rights to the popular scripted format, made the announcement at the Asia TV Forum & Market in Singapore. The film version is eyeing a May 2017 in Japan.
Toshiaki Karasawa (20th Century Boys, Toshiie and Matsu) and Masataka Kubota (Mars, Death Note),...
Japan's Nippon TV, which scored a hit with their local-language version of the show, announced on Wednesday they are in preproduction on a movie spinoff, tentatively titled: The Last Cop: The Movie.
Nippon TV and Red Arrow International, the German group that controls the rights to the popular scripted format, made the announcement at the Asia TV Forum & Market in Singapore. The film version is eyeing a May 2017 in Japan.
Toshiaki Karasawa (20th Century Boys, Toshiie and Matsu) and Masataka Kubota (Mars, Death Note),...
- 12/7/2016
- by Patrick Brzeski
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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