Cult-favorite-turned-mainstream director Takashi Miike oversaw the Ichi the Killer film that Media Blasters released in America, and he also made a voice cameo in the Ichi The Killer: Episode 0 anime that Central Park Media’s U.S. Manga Corps distributed.
Avex Pictures began streaming the first two minutes of the live-action film of Hideo Yamamoto’s Homunculus manga on Wednesday.
The footage shows medical student Manabu Itō performing the “trepanation” operation by opening a hole in the head of the protagonist Susumu Nakoshi.
Viz Media published Voyeur and Voyeurs, Inc. manga in North America, while Ichi the Killer inspired several controversial live-action and animated adaptations.