LOS ANGELES, Aug 21 — Check out this trailer for the live-action adaptation of Sui Ishida’s hit manga Tokyo Ghoul.

The film stars Masataka Kubota and it takes place in an alternate contemporary Japan where ghouls, flesh-eating super-powered beings, exist.

The story follows nerdy college student, Ken Kaneki, whole life is turned upside down when he is transformed into a half-human, half-monster hybrid.

Now part ghoul, Ken struggles between the life he once knew as a human and the flesh-eating ghoul lifestyle he must adapt to if he wants to survive, all while being hunted by the mysterious Commission of Counter Ghoul.

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The synopsis of the film reads: “Ghouls live among us, the same as normal people in every way — except their craving for human flesh. Shy Ken Kaneki is thrilled to go on a date with the beautiful Rize. But it turns out that she’s only interested in his body — eating it, that is. When a morally questionable rescue transforms him into the first half-human half-Ghoul hybrid, Ken is drawn into the dark and violent world of Ghouls, which exists alongside our own.” 

A screengrab from the live-action adaptation of Sui Ishida’s hit manga ‘Tokyo Ghoul’.
A screengrab from the live-action adaptation of Sui Ishida’s hit manga ‘Tokyo Ghoul’.