Action fans with Netflix-subscription have a date with the former contract killer Shuhei Sakata (Toma Ikuta) from Demon City, the new number 1 in Netflix’s film charts. So the Japanese colleague by John Wick The romance only once-it ends with us from streaming throne.
In the past, director Seiji Tanaka convinced with his Yakuza film Melancholic from 2019.
Demon City at Netflix: a brutal revenge rama with demonic brutality
The action film Demon City is based on the manga of the same name (Aka Onigoroshi) by Masamichi Kawabe and tells of the revenge camp of the former contract killer Shuhei Sakata. He had actually left his murderous past behind when a mysterious organization with masked killers brings his wife and daughter to. You push the crime into his shoes and let him go to death on the threshold. A big mistake, because twelve years later, Sakata accepts the persona of Shinjo City’s demon to create the entire Yakuza clan.
Truly supernatural machinations do not occur in Demon City and there is nothing to do with the Demon City Shinjuku, which is also based on a manga. This is about stylish action and great feelings, even if the criticism is a little sword with the strip. With indiewire it was said: “A fun Japanese action film that adds nothing to the subgenre ‘to the calm to the rest of the contract killer, but has a very good time.”
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Similar Japanese live action food is available at Netflix with the Tokyo Swindlers or House of Ninjas series. Demon City has been since then February 27th on-line.