Sequence debuted on Netflix on April 5

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Netflix‘S Parasite: The Grey (Kiseiju: The Grey), the South Korean live-action adaptation of Hitoshi Iwaki‘S Parasite (Kiseiju) manga, gained the Finest Visible Results Award at Busan’s Asia Contents Awards & International OTT Awards on Sunday.

The sequence debuted worldwide on Netflix on April 5.

Jeon So-nee, Koo Kyo-hwanAnd Lee Jung Hyun star within the adaptation. Yeon Sang Ho (Prepare to Busan, Peninsula) directed the mission and in addition wrote scripts on it Ryu Yong-jae (Peninsula, Cash Heist: Korea – Joint Financial Space). Kwon Hae-hyo and Kim In-kwon additionally star within the sequence.

The manufacturing is predicated on the manga, however tells its personal new story. Jeon performs Jeong Su-in, who was attacked by a parasite, however “when it fails to take over her mind, she enters right into a weird coexistence with it.” Koo’s character Seol Kang-woo chases parasites to seek out his lacking youthful sister. Lee performs the chief of The Grey (a job pressure that fights parasites) whose husband was killed by them.

Hitoshi Iwaki‘s authentic serialized manga Kodansha‘S Afternoon journal from 1990-1995. The manga is about in a world the place aliens known as Parasites come to Earth and start taking up people by coming into by way of their noses and ears and attaching themselves to their brains. An alien named Migi can solely take over the best arm of highschool scholar Shinichi Izumi and can’t absolutely management Shinichi. Migi and Shinichi be taught to coexist, and the 2 battle different parasites that people solely see as meals.

The manga beforehand impressed a tv anime adaptation in 2014, and two live-action movies in 2014 and 2015.

Supply: Deadline (Sara Merican)