Director Yeon Sang-ho's Japanese project 'Gas Man' boasts overwhelming scale.. to be released on July 2, 2026 [Official]

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The main trailer for 'Gas Man', for which director Yeon Sang-ho served as executive producer and screenwriter, has been released.

Netflix unveiled the main trailer and key art for its Netflix series 'Gas Man', scheduled for global release on July 2, 2026.

The legendary film 'Gas Man No. 1' (1960) is being rebooted as an eight-episode Netflix original Japanese series. Director Yeon Sang-ho, who has successively created global hits such as the film 'Train to Busan' and the Netflix series 'Hellbound' and 'Parasyte: The Grey', will serve as executive producer and screenwriter, while director Shinzo Katayama, known for masterfully depicting the darkness within human nature through streaming series 'Hannibal' and films 'The Man from Nowhere' and 'Missing', will handle direction. This unprecedented combination of top-tier Korean and Japanese creators has finally been realized. The project has also drawn industry attention as it is being planned and produced by Korean production company WOWPOINT in collaboration with Japan's Toho for a Japanese Netflix series.

In the released main trailer, the mysterious entity 'Gas Man' declares himself to be the perpetrator of a series of murders, delivering a shock. After announcing the motive, method, and next target of the killings, Gas Man disappears without a trace, plunging Japanese society into extreme fear and chaos. Amidst a vast conspiracy involving the police, media, streamers, criminal organizations, and the powerful, the truth of the case gradually comes to light, and at the moment everything is revealed, a shocking reality that will shake the world will be unveiled.

Detective Okamoto Kenji, who investigates the case, is played by Shun Oguri, and reporter Kono Kyoko, who pursues the truth, is played by Yū Aoi. Suzu Hirose and Kento Hayashi appear as a sibling pair of streaming creators, while Yutaka Takenouchi adds a powerful presence as a businessman with a former yakuza background.

The scale of the production is also overwhelming. Filming took place over approximately eight months at more than 120 locations, with reports indicating that over 1,000 sites were scouted in advance. The scene in which Gas Man attacks a vehicle from beneath a manhole, causing the car to spin in mid-air, was completed after numerous trials and errors, referencing the action sequences from the film 'The Dark Knight'. This shoot was conducted under a full lockdown of the Tokyo Station area, marking the first time in Japanese film and television history that such an extensive area was completely controlled for filming.

Meanwhile, 'Gas Man' will be exclusively released worldwide on Netflix starting July 2, 2026.

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