Streaming Platform Takes Risks with Live Action City Hunter Film: One Scene is Bound to Be a Hit!

Game news Netflix dares everything with the live action film City Hunter: this scene will instantly become cult!

Six years later Nicky Larson and the Scent of Cupida surprisingly successful adaptation by Philippe Lacheau, the famous private detective returns to Netflix, in a 100% Japanese live-action film. It's simply called Nicky Larson and it's available since April 25 on the streaming platform. And you know what ? Well, the press feedback is quite positive (73% on Rotten Tomatoes)! For us – on JV – it is a feature film “far from perfect” but which “respects the original work and offers a vision between tradition and modernity”. Yes, for this 2024 version, Ryo Saeba – his original name – arrives in contemporary Tokyo, in Shinjuku, and that changes a lot of things.

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From the 80s to today

Indeed, in this new adaptation by Netflix, if Nicky Larson retains his irreverence and his undisguised attraction to women, Japan has changed a lot… For Ryohei Suzuki, who plays the detective here, the challenge was therefore to imagine how this character from the 80s and 90s would behave today. The whole thing gave rise to a dance scene that has the potential to become cult.

This “banana dance”, which you can find above, is complete rubbish (and pure Nicky Larson). But basically it's just a line from a script, Suzuki explains in an interview with A geek. “In the script, it was only said that he (Ryo Saeba) danced at the cabaret,” we can learn. “So we didn’t know what kind of dance or tricks he was doing.”

An actor 100% in his role

“But I felt like I knew what kind of dance Ryo would do if he were in modern times,” the actor continues, in the same interview. “He’s going to 100% imitate certain Japanese comedians who, you know, are comedians with naked dances… I was inspired by four great Japanese comedians”. So it was with Nicky Larson in the role that Ryohei Suzuki actually rented a studio and choreographed the entire scene – with the help of an actor friend. As a reminder, the film is available on Netflix.