Human Vapor (2026)

Original title

ガス人間

Directed by

Shinzō Katayama

Genre

sci-fi & fantasy, crime

Country

South Korea, Japan

Length

1 season, 8 episodes

Rated

TV-MA

Rating

7.5 of 10 from 39 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A man who can turn into a gas uses his ability to commit crimes in modern Japan. A detective and a journalist team up to stop him before his power spirals out of control.

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What happens

Human Vapor (Japanese: ガス人間; Korean: 가스인간) is a 2026 science fiction crime thriller television series based on the 1960 tokusatsu film The Human Vapor by Ishirō Honda and Takeshi Kimura. A Japanese–South Korean co-production written by Yeon Sang-ho and Ryu Yong-jae and directed by Shinzo Katayama, the series stars Shun Oguri, Yu Aoi, Suzu Hirose, Kento Hayashi, Uta, and Yutaka Takenouchi. It is produced by Toho Studios and Wow Point, marking the first collaboration between Netflix and Toho, and was released on Netflix on July 2, 2026. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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