Iké Boys (2022)
Two Japan-obsessed teenagers in Oklahoma must discover their inner hero when a magical anime transforms them into its super-powered characters.
- Date of release
- 2022-10-11
- TMDB
- 5.8 / 10 (9)
- Runtime
- 1h 28m
- Genres
- Fantasy, Adventure
- Director
- Eric McEver
Casting
- Quinn Lord — Shawn Gunderson
- Ronak Gandhi — Vikram 'Vik' Kapoor
- Christina Higa — Miki Shimizu
- Billy Zane — Newt Grafstrom
- Yumiko Shaku — Reiko Grafstrom
- Ben Browder — Wayne Gunderson
- Saylor Bell Curda — Bethany
- Sam Ashby — Hunter
- Agneeta Thacker — Sunita Kapoor
- Sanjana Rajagopalan — Preeti Kapoor
- Chris Freihofer — Father Lowery
- Christopher Troy — Mecha Shawn
Interesting facts
Iké Boys is a 2021 American mixed media fantasy film directed by Eric McEver and starring Quinn Lord, Ronak Gandhi, and Christina Higa as three teenagers who acquire superpowers from a magical anime film. Billy Zane, Yumiko Shaku, and Ben Browder are featured in supporting roles.
Production
Production took place in Oklahoma at the beginning of 2020, with postproduction conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic. The original 2D animation was produced by teams in France and Taiwan, paying stylistic homage to Japanese anime of the 1980s and 1990s. The climactic battle was produced by a team of Japanese tokusatsu veterans, with explosives detonated using the same pyrotechnics rig as in Godzilla.
Read on Wikipedia · Text from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Data from Wikidata.
Recommended
- Come Away 2020 · ★ 5.8
- Momo 2025 · ★ 7.1
- The Water Man 2020 · ★ 6.1
- Legend of the White Dragon 2026 · ★ 6.5
- Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender 2026 · ★ 9.0
- Street Fighter: Assassin's Fist The Movie 2014 · ★ 7.2
- The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim 2024 · ★ 6.5
- Scaramouche 1952 · ★ 7.0
- Anastasia: Once Upon a Time 2020 · ★ 5.9
- Mythica: The Godslayer 2016 · ★ 5.9
- Chickenhare and the Hamster of Darkness 2022 · ★ 7.2
- The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run 2020 · ★ 7.4