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Tokyo Ghoul (2017)

Tokyo Ghoul poster
Original title
東京喰種 トーキョーグール
Directed by
Kentarō Hagiwara, Shuhei Morita
Genre
drama film, action film, horror film, thriller film, dark fantasy
Country
Japan
Runtime
2h
Rated
NC-17
Rating
7.1 of 10 from 384 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A college student survives a deadly attack and becomes a half-ghoul hybrid. He must navigate a world where humans and man-eating ghouls are at war.

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What happens

Tokyo Ghoul (Japanese: 東京喰種(トーキョーグール), Hepburn: Tōkyō Gūru) is a 2017 Japanese dark fantasy action film based on the manga series Tokyo Ghoul by Sui Ishida. The film is directed by Kentarō Hagiwara and stars Masataka Kubota as Ken Kaneki and Fumika Shimizu as Tōka Kirishima. It was released in Japan by Shochiku on July 29, 2017. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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