Human Vapor (1960)

19601h 31mdir. Shinzō KatayamaJapaneseEnglish subtitlesJapan, South Korea

With Shun Oguri, Yu Aoi, Suzu Hirose, Kento Hayashi, Yutaka Takenouchi

Directed by Shinzō Katayama

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Human Vapor (Japanese: ガス人間; Korean: 가스인간) is a 2026 science fiction crime thriller television series based on the 1960 tokusatsu film The Human Vapor by Ishirō Honda and Takeshi Kimura. A Japanese–South Korean co-production written by Yeon Sang-ho and Ryu Yong-jae and directed by Shinzo Katayama, the series stars Shun Oguri, Yu Aoi, Suzu Hirose, Kento Hayashi, Uta, and Yutaka Takenouchi. It is produced by Toho Studios and Wow Point, marking the first collaboration between Netflix and Toho, and was released on Netflix on July 2, 2026.

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