Voice actor Yamadera Koichi to do the voice of Ryo in “City Hunter – THE MOVIE Shijo Saika no Mission”

The French live action film “Qu’est-ce qu’on a encore fait au bon Dieu?”, a French adaptation of “City Hunter” will be released in Japan in November titled “City Hunter – THE MOVIE Shijo Saika no Mission”.

But the voice actor won’t be the original anime voice talent –  Kamiya Akira as Saeba Ryo, nor will Ikura Kazue be playing the role of Makimura Kaori.  The roles will be played by voice talents Yamadera Koichi and Sawashiro Miyuki.

It was revealed that Kamiya asked Yamadera personally to play the role because he already had prior commitments and had to decline it.

Yamadera was also in the film “City Hunter: Shinjuku Private Eyes”, playing the role of Mikuni Shinji and watched Kamiya playing the role.  After the recording, he would go home and would imitate Kamiya’s voice as Ryo.

As for the live action film, in France, the “City Hunter” anime series is known as “Nicky Larson” and was broadcast from November 1990 and was released in 2007-2008 in its uncensored Japanese version with subtitles on the Nolife channel.

And the live action film which was released in France is directed and written by Phillippe Lacheau (star of the “Baby Sitting” films) and stars Lacheau and Elodie Fontan (who starred in the hit film which was released earlier this year. Titled “Qu’est-ce qu’on a encore fait au bon Dieu?” in France, the film also has cameo appearances by American actress Pamela Anderson and Dorothee.

Lachaeu has said that he wanted the film to stay as faithful as possible to the manga and not disappoint fans of “Nicky Larson”, as he saw what happened with “Dragonball Evolution” (2009), the Hollywood live-action adaptation of “Dragon Ball” by Toriyama Akira.

Creator Tsukasa Hojo enjoyed the screenplay for Lacheau’s film and said about the screenplay, “I received many offers to adapt ‘City Hunter’ for the cinema and in most cases, the script was flat and a lot of action movie scripts do not understand the point. For Phillippe Lacheau’s script, there was everything: Drama, laughter and a bit of naughtiness. He had taken into account the totality of the work”.

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