Shiro Kuroi’s sci-fi survival manga Leviathan is getting a live-action film adaptation in Japan on February 11, 2027. Shunsuke Michieda of Naniwa Danshi will star as Kazuma Ichinose, with Natsuki Deguchi playing Futaba Nikaido. Michieda has previously led films including Even If This Love Disappears from the World Tonight, while Deguchi’s credits include the live-action Blue Spring Ride series.


The film is being co-directed by Michihito Fujii and Ryohei Shingu, with Shingu making his feature-film directing debut. A newly released trailer introduces the story’s central crisis: 38 students are stranded aboard a wrecked spacecraft with only 41 hours of oxygen remaining and discover that the remaining life-support system can save just one person.


Leviathan was first published in France by Ki-oon in January 2022 before beginning serialization on Shueisha’s Shonen Jump+ service that August. According to the film’s official website, the manga has since been translated into 10 languages and published in more than 34 countries. Toho will release the live-action film theatrically in Japan.


Watch the trailer here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AK_Tq3QyYVM