{"id":2479655,"date":"2026-06-28T23:11:42","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T23:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2479655"},"modified":"2026-06-28T23:11:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T23:11:42","slug":"review-netflix-drama-human-vapor-review-shun-oguri-yu-aoi-in-yeon-sang-hos-bold-sci-fi-reboot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/review-netflix-drama-human-vapor-review-shun-oguri-yu-aoi-in-yeon-sang-hos-bold-sci-fi-reboot\/","title":{"rendered":"Review | Netflix drama Human Vapor review: Shun Oguri, Yu Aoi in Yeon Sang-ho\u2019s bold sci-fi reboot"},"content":{"rendered":"

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4\/5 stars<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lead cast:<\/strong> Shun Oguri, Yu Aoi, Suzu Hirose, Kento Hayashi<\/p>\n

When a respected scientist explodes live on national television, it launches a wave of terror that sweeps Japan, masterminded by a mysterious serial killer who can seemingly vanish into thin air.<\/p>\n

Marking the first collaboration between Netflix and Toho Studios, Human Vapor<\/em> is the latest creation from Yeon Sang-ho<\/span><\/a>, the South Korean filmmaker behind such genre hits as Train to Busan<\/em><\/span><\/a> and Colony<\/em><\/span><\/a>. It is a bold reimagining of Toho\u2019s classic 1960 science fiction film of the same name, from original Godzilla<\/em><\/span><\/a> director Ishiro Honda.<\/div>\n

The victim of this shocking attack, environmental energy expert Professor Sano (Morley Robertson), was being interviewed by JNT chief reporter Kyoko Kono (Yu Aoi) when he was suddenly hoisted into the air by a cloud of mysterious gas, which proceeded to force its way into him and cause his body to burst violently.<\/p>\n

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This horrific act was followed by a video message, sent to all of Tokyo\u2019s news agencies, from a young man (model Uta Uchida in his acting debut) claiming responsibility for the crime. Calling himself \u201cThe Human Vapor\u201d, he declares that the professor\u2019s death is only the first in a series of murders he intends to carry out.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.scmp.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

4\/5 stars Lead cast: Shun Oguri, Yu Aoi, Suzu Hirose, Kento Hayashi When a respected scientist explodes live on national television, it launches a wave of terror that sweeps Japan, masterminded by a mysterious serial killer who can seemingly vanish into thin air. Marking the first collaboration between Netflix and Toho Studios, Human Vapor is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2479656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[488066,26630,488071,23191,488073,488068,488076,488070,488075,405554,370853,488072,488067,488069,488074],"class_list":["post-2479655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-human-vapor","tag-japan","tag-kento-hayashi","tag-netflix","tag-professor-sano","tag-shun-oguri","tag-southern-all-stars","tag-suzu-hirose","tag-the-human-vapor","tag-toho-studios","tag-tokyo","tag-uta-uchida","tag-yeon-sang-ho","tag-yu-aoi","tag-yutaka-takenouchi"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Review-Netflix-drama-Human-Vapor-review-Shun-Oguri-Yu.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2479655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2479655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2479655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2479657,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2479655\/revisions\/2479657"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2479656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2479655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2479655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2479655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}