24 Japan version

[PS1gamenwatch]

https://www.tv-asahi.co.jp/24japan/

kotaku.com/first-details-about-the-japanese-remake-of-24-1842467961

According to Yahoo! News Japan, the show will star popular actor Toshiaki Karasawa, who has been nominated for two Japanese Academy Awards, as the Jack Bauer character. The Japanese version of the protagonist is named Genba Shidou. As with the American show, the Japanese counterpart will also have a wife and daughter.



In the original 24's first season, the show featured David Palmer in the race for the US Presidency. The Japanese version will center around the country’s first female prime minister. The show will be changed to reflect Japan and Japanese society but in a way that evokes the original show. There will be a CTU type unit, but the original program’s technology will be updated for 2020.

 

[WarJams]

The bad guy's gotta be terrorists, right? It can't be 24 without the terrorists. Wonder if the badguys will have a doomsday religious cult bend to them, like the 90s subway bombers?

 

[MrTroll]

I look forward to watching Jaku Baurukawa-san viciously pursuing national enemies of Japan, such as manga pirates, anti-whaling activists, and people who question the eternal divinity of the Heavenly Sovereign, Emperor Naruhito.

 

[MemeGrey]

The Japanese version will center around the country’s first female prime minister.

I hope they go really sexist with this

 

[Marissa Moira]

It's apparently going to involve him routinely curb stomping Chinese spies and busting up Shanty Towns of Chinese Immigrants being used as a front for the CCP Spy Operations.

 

[PS1gamenwatch]

The bad guy's gotta be terrorists, right? It can't be 24 without the terrorists. Wonder if the badguys will have a doomsday religious cult bend to them, like the 90s subway bombers?

They'll fight the villains from Death Stranding?

I hope they go really sexist with this

As long as they don't go screwball romcom

 

[MrTroll]

I hope they go really sexist with this

Running gag: every time Jack Bauer is called into her office, he pretends to confuse her with an intern and asks where his coffee is, then addresses one of her bodyguards as Mr. Prime Minister.

 

[Fascist Frederick]

Hey as long as he's still a bad ass who politely asks the bad guys questions with a car battery and jumper cables I'll give it a shot.

 

[some Sketchy dude]

Animated 24 is best 24

 

[The Bovinian Derivative]

As long as we get the family plotline that's about getting kidnapped and every scene relating to that completely halts the main plot I am all for it. (B stories were a mistake)

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

I can say for certain that there will be a Yakuza guy who starts antagonistic and joins the hero in the finale.

 

[Megaroad 2012]

What part of Tokyo will get nuked and kind of forgotten as it goes on?

 

[James Roancrest]

How many times will Japanese Tony Almeida turn rogue?

 

[Idiotron]

For decades, Hollywood remade Japanese productions.
Now, Japan finally strikes back.

 

[Dom Cruise]

The bomb is inside the panty vending machine!

 

[Miller]

The bomb is inside the panty vending machine!

Chloe: "Jack, you have to sniff every panty in the vending machine!"
Jack: "What?!"
Chloe: "Just do it!"
*countdown sound effect starts playing*

 

[PS1gamenwatch]

For decades, Hollywood remade Japanese productions.
Now, Japan finally strikes back.

I wonder when China will do theirs

 

[Uranus Pink]

What part of Tokyo will get nuked and kind of forgotten as it goes on?

The part Godzilla already renovated.

 

[HumanHive]

The part Godzilla already renovated.

A 24/Shin Godzilla inspired TV show about a regular military unit in a world with Kaiju would be pretty kino.

 

[Milwaukee Macho Man]

Do they have cougars in glorious Nippon? What creature will stalk his daughter in the woods?