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Bungo Stray Dogs The Movie: Beast
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Wikipedia article
'Bungo Stray Dogs The Movie: Beast' is a Japanese 2022 live-action film directed by Koichi Sakamoto and written by Kafka Asagiri. Based on a light novel spin-off from the 'Bungo Stray Dogs' manga by Asagiri, the movie is set in an alternate universe from the franchise.
Premise
The story follows Ryunosuke Akutagawa, a man who vows revenge on a man dressed in black in order to rescue his sister. However, as he is about to starve to death, a man from the Armed Detective Agency appears.
Cast
*Shohei Hashimoto as Ryunosuke Akutagawa
*Yki Torigoe as Atsushi Nakajima
*Masashi Taniguchi as Sakunosuke Oda
*Teruma as Doppo Kunikida
*Ryki Nagae as Ranpo Edogawa
*Ksuke Kuwano as Junichir Tanizaki
*Hitoshi Horinouchi as Kenji Miyazawa
*Ao Hirokawa as Akiko Yosano
*Akari Sait as Naomi Tanizaki
*Rui Tabuchi as Osamu Dazai
*Sakina Kuwae as Kyka Izumi
*Ayaka Konno as Gin
*Keisuke Ueda as Chya Nakahara
*Mitsu Murata as Tatsuhiko Shibusawa
*Yta Kishimoto as Fyodor D.
*Keisuke Minami as the orphanage director
*Hirofumi Araki as Ango Sakaguchi
Production
A live-action film, 'Beast' was confirmed in March 2020 to be in development. It is based on a light novel by Kafka Asagiri, who is providing the screenplay, while Koichi Sakamoto is directing the movie. While Yki Torigoe (Atsushi Nakajima) and Shohei Hashimoto (Ryunosuke Akutagawa) are reprising their roles from the original plays, most of the remaining cast are new. Several actors have commented the film will have a different style from plays.
Taku Iwasaki is returning from the anime version to compose the live-action film's music, and the rock unit Granrodeo is also returning to contribute the theme song "Tokei-mawari no Torque" (Clockwise Torque). Iwasaki claimed he conceived a specific type of soundtrack to fit the live-action version of 'Bungo Stray Dogs' which would stand out in contrast to the anime soundtrack. Granrodeo "tried to express the contrast between justice and evil in the music".
In charge of the script, Kafka Asagiri provided new content not present in the original 'Beast' light novel, including more characters.
References
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