Netflix Sets The Blue Road Live-Action Premiere For November 20
The adaptation draws on a five-volume Korean-Japanese crime comic written by Keishi Edogawa and drawn by Kaya Kwon, pairing a Seoul detective with a Tokyo detective in a story built on cross-border cooperation and cultural tension.
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Netflix announced on Friday that The Blue Road, a live-action adaptation of the 2002 Korean-Japanese comic Purungil - Ao no Michi, premieres on November 20. Joon-hee Han directs. Seok-gu Son plays a Seoul detective and Eita Nagayama plays a Tokyo detective investigating linked cross-border murders. Netflix also released the first poster and trailer, which show crime scenes, blood-written messages and a tiger drawing.
Joon-hee Han, who directed D.P. and Coin Locker Girl, is behind the series. The poster shows the two detectives in back alleys in Korea and Japan with messages written in Korean and Japanese behind them. The trailer introduces crime scenes, blood-written messages, a Korean-Japanese businessman played by Shin-rok Kim, and a tiger drawing, and teases growing tension between the detectives. The comic ran five volumes.
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