{"id":115101,"date":"2025-11-01T01:02:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T01:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/115101\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T01:02:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T01:02:08","slug":"japanese-yakuza-vs-korean-mafia-vs-sharks-in-charon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/115101\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Yakuza vs. Korean Mafia vs. Sharks in &#8216;Charon&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An age-old battle between the Japanese yakuza and the Korean mafia is interrupted by a shark in Charon, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.screendaily.com\/news\/charades-heads-to-afm-with-japanese-shark-thriller-charon-and-finnish-christmas-horror-comedy-red-snow\/5210451.article\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Screen Daily<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>Kazuya Shiraishi, whose The Devil\u2019s Path was nominated for five Japanese Academy awards in 2014, is helming the thriller.<\/p>\n<p>In the film, a brutal clash between the Japanese yakuza and Korean mafia breaks out on a ship before being interrupted by an even greater predator \u2014 the great white shark \u2014 as the trapped, bloodied and hunted survivors fight for their lives.<\/p>\n<p>Japan\u2019s mur mur Studio is producing, with filming is currently underway between Taiwan, Kitakyushu, and Okinawa.<\/p>\n<p>After production wraps, the movie will undergo extensive visual effects work. It\u2019s expected to be ready for release in 2027.<\/p>\n<p>Paris-based outfit Charades will launch sales at the upcoming American Film Market in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An age-old battle between the Japanese yakuza and the Korean mafia is interrupted by a shark in Charon,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[69427,93,61,60,270],"class_list":["post-115101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-charon","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}