Netflix announced on Tuesday that the service will exclusively stream the live-action film of Akane Shimizu’s Cells at Work! (Hataraku Saibō) manga starting on June 13, and started streaming an English-subtitled trailer of the film.
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The film opened in Japan on December 13 and ranked at #1. The film sold a total of 612,000 tickets and earned a total of 844,768,310 yen (about US$5.74 million) in its first three days.
The film had 4D (4DX and MX4D) and IMAX screenings in Japan.
The film stars:
Hideki Takeuchi (live-action Nodame Cantabile, Thermae Romae, Fly Me to Saitama) directed the film, with a script by Yūichi Tokunaga (live-action Kaguya-sama: Love is War, Liar x Liar, Princess Jellyfish). Warner Bros. Japan distributed the film. Official HiGE DANdism performed the theme song “50%.”
Shimizu launched the original Cells at Work! manga in the March 2015 issue of Kodansha’s Monthly Shonen Sirius magazine, and ended it in January 2021. Kodansha USA Publishing is releasing the manga in English.
The first television anime of the original manga premiered in July 2018. The second season premiered in January 2021, alongside the anime of the Cells at Work! Code Black spinoff manga.
Kodansha USA Publishing is also releasing the following spinoff manga in English: Cells at Work: Bacteria!, Cells at Work!: Neo Bacteria!, Cells at Work! White Brigade, Cells at Work! Baby, Cells NOT at Work!, Cells at Work! Code Black, Cells at Work and Friends!, Cells at Work! Lady, and Cells at Work: Platelets!.
Several other spinoffs exist such as Kae Hashimoto’s Hataraku Saibō Illegal (Cells at Work! Illegal), Yū Maeda’s Hataraku Saibō Muscle (Cells at Work! Muscle), Choko Aozora and Meku Kaire’s Hataraku Saibō Neko (Cells at Work! Cat), and Koma Warita and Ryō Kuji’s Hataraku Saibō Okusuri (Cells at Work! Medicine).
Source: Netflix Anime’s X/Twitter account and YouTube channel
