Douguchi Kenichi Endō as bleeding man Fumiya Fujii as Masato Ikegami Takashi Fujii Chizuru Ikewaki Nana Katase Ken Mitsuishi Mirai Moriyama as Kakuda (manga artist) Katsuhisa Namase as Saburo Kido (Donkey) Naoto Takenaka Oshikazu Fukawa Masato Irie Tamotsu Ishibashi Hidehiko Ishizuka as Michihiro Maruo Fumiyo Kohinata as Akio Yamane Raita Ryu as detective Chosuke "Cho" Igarashi Shirô Sano as Yanbo / Mabo (twins) Miyako Takeuchi Ryushin Tei Yu Tokui Hanako Yamada Komoto Masahiro as the first teacher of Kyoko Koizumi Home video The first film in the trilogy is available on DVD and Blu-ray in Japan from VAP, and in Hong Kong from Kam & Ronson. A UK DVD release was announced by label 4Digital Asia, and released on May 4, 2009. On the same day, Part 2 received its UK theatrical premiere at the 8th Sci-Fi-London annual fantastic film festival. Part 3 received its UK theatrical premiere on May 7, 2010, at the Prince Charles Cinema in London as part of the 2nd Terracotta Film Festival. Following this, 4Digital Asia released a 4-disc boxset containing the complete trilogy on May 31, 2010. Viz Media licensed the trilogy for North American release. The first film had its US theatrical premiere at the New People opening in San Francisco on August 15, 2009. The second film premiere followed at the same cinema on August 21, 2009, and the third film premiere followed on the same day as the Japanese premiere on August 28, 2009. Part 1 received its US DVD release on December 11, 2009. A launch event was held at the New People cinema in San Francisco with a theatrical screening. Part 2's DVD release had a similar launch event on February 9, 2010, with a one-night-only theatrical screening. Likewise, Part 3 had a launch event and theatrical screening at New People on May 20, 2010. The entire trilogy was broadcast by NHK on its TV Japan channel airing on consecutive Saturdays beginning November 13, 2010. Reception Manga 20th Century Boys has 36 million copies in circulation; it was the third top-selling manga series of 2008 in Japan; and the ninth top-selling of 2009. The series has also won numerous awards, including the 2001 Kodansha Manga Award in the General category, an Excellence Prize at the 2002 Japan Media Arts Festival, the 2003 Shogakukan Manga Award in the General category, and the first ever Angoulême International Comics Festival Prize for