On 28 February 2024, the official X account of Netflix Japan revealed that the upcoming South Korean Live-Action Adaptation of Hitoshi Iwaaki’s “Parasyte” (Japanese Name: Kiseiju) will be named “Parasyte: The Grey” (Korean Name: Gisaengsu: Deo Geurei, Japanese Name: Kiseiju: The Grey). This series will stream on Netflix on April 5, 2024.
Parasyte Korean Live-Action Details
Netflix, Netflix South Korea, and Netflix Japan released Korean, Japanese, and English versions of posters for this upcoming South Korean Live Action adaptation:
The main cast members of this Live action are Jeon So-nee, Koo Kyo-hwan, and Lee Jung-hyun. Jeon plays Jeong Su-in’s role, who forms an unusual co-existence with a parasite after it fails to enter her brain. Koo Kyo-hwan’s character, Seol Kang-woo is described as a character who pursues parasites to find his missing younger sister. Netflix also revealed that they cast Kwon Hae-hyo and Kim In-kwon but their roles are still unknown.
Yeon Sang-ho is directing this live-action and also handling scripts with Ryu Yong-jae. Parasyte: The Grey (Gisaengsu: Deo Geurei, Kiseiju: The Grey) will be streaming on Netflix on April 5, 2024. This adaptation will release new episodes every week till June 2024.
My Drama List explains this series plot as:
“The story depicts parasites that fall from space and begin to kill to gain their own power by controlling the human brain and body by living off human hosts. The story revolves around Jung Soo In, who is infected with a parasite on her hand and starts a strange cohabitation as it fails to steal her brain.
Seol Kang Woo chases parasitic water to find his missing sister, and Choi Jun Kyung is the team leader of the parasitic life team ‘The Grey’ and lives only to exterminate the parasitic water after losing her husband to the parasitic water.“
Parasyte (Kiseijuu) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hitoshi Iwaaki. It was published in 1989 in Kodansha’s Morning Open Zokan. Then it shifted to Monthly Afternoon in 1989.
The manga later received two live-action films in 2014 and 2015. Then it later received an anime adaptation by Madhouse titled “Parasyte -the Maxim-” which aired in October 2014. This manga is also receiving a South Korean Live-Action adaptation named “Parasyte: The Grey” which is set to premiere on April 5, 2024.
Kodansha USA licensed this manga in English and describes its plot as:
“They arrive in silence and darkness. They descend from the skies. They have a hunger for human flesh. They are everywhere. They are parasites, alien creatures who must invade—and take control of—a human host to survive. And once they have infected their victims, they can assume any deadly form they choose: monsters with giant teeth, winged demons, creatures with blades for hands. But most have chosen to conceal their lethal purpose behind ordinary human faces. So no one knows their secret—except an ordinary high school student. Shin is battling for control of his own body against an alien parasite, but can he find a way to warn humanity of the horrors to come?“
Source: Netflix Japan’s X Account
