Netflix Sets November 20 Premiere For Manhwa Adaptation The Blue Road
The adaptation pulls a 2002 five-volume Korean-Japanese crime comic into a Netflix series and puts a Korean director and a Korean-Japanese lead pair on a story built around cross-border police friction.
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Netflix released a teaser trailer on Thursday for The Blue Road, a live-action series based on the 2002 Korean-Japanese comic Purungil - Ao no Michi. The series premieres on Netflix on November 20 at 1:00 a.m. PST. Seok-gu Son plays a Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency detective and Eita Nagayama plays a Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department detective investigating linked murders in South Korea and Japan. Joon-hee Han, who helmed D.P. and Coin Locker Girl, directs.
The source comic was written by Keishi Edogawa and drawn by Korean artist Kaya Kwon, and ran five volumes. The story opens in Tokyo with a contorted corpse and a blood-written message in Korean, then repeats the pattern in South Korea with a Japanese message near the victim. The parallel scenes push both countries' police to treat the killings as one case.
The teaser sets the two detectives against each other over how the investigation should run, with messages left at the crime scenes in both languages. The premiere date is November 20 at 1:00 a.m. PST.
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