WOWPOINTX teams up with Yeon Sang-ho for Netflix series “Gas Man” — main trailer and poster unveiled

Netflix has released the main trailer and key art for 〈Gas Man〉, a Netflix series slated for worldwide release on July 2, 2026.

〈Gas Man No. 1〉 (1960), the legendary film, will be rebooted as a Netflix original Japanese series with a total of 8 episodes. Director Yeon Sang-ho—who has consecutively produced globally talked-about works such as the film 〈Train to Busan〉 and the Netflix series 〈Kingdom〉 〈Parasite: The Grey〉—is serving as executive producer and screenwriter. He is joined by director Shinzo Katayama, who has vividly portrayed the darkness inside the human heart through the streaming series 〈Gannibal〉 and the films 〈Brotherhood of the Bunker?〉 〈Missing〉. The unprecedented pairing of top-tier creators from Korea and Japan has finally come to fruition. Industry attention is also focused on the fact that the Korean production company WOWPOINT partnered with Japan’s Toho to plan and produce the Japanese Netflix series.

In the released main trailer, the mysterious being “Gas Man” declares that it is the culprit behind a series of murders, sending audiences into shock. After laying out the motives and methods of the killings—and even naming the next target—Gas Man vanishes without leaving a trace. Amid a vast conspiracy involving police, the media, streamers, criminal organizations, and power circles, the truth behind the case gradually comes to light. When everything is revealed, the shocking reality expected to shake the world will finally appear.

Okamoto Kenji, a detective who tracks the case, is played by Shun Oguri, while Kyoko Kono, a reporter who pursues the truth, is played by Yu Aoi. Hirose Suzu and Kento Hayashi appear as siblings who are streaming creators, and Yutaka Takanouchi adds a strong presence as a corporate executive who is a former yakuza.

The scale of the work is also overwhelming. Filming, which took place over about 8 months across more than 120 locations, is said to have involved more than 1,000 pre-hunt sessions alone. A scene in which Gas Man attacks a vehicle from beneath a manhole—sending the car into the air and spinning—was completed after countless trial-and-error attempts, drawing inspiration from the action sequence in the film 〈The Dark Knight〉. The shoot was carried out with Tokyo Station and the surrounding area fully under control, reportedly the first time that level of control has been used in a Japanese video production.

The teaser trailer released earlier also drew buzz after being directly mentioned by world-famous game creator Hideo Kojima. On social media, responses such as “an overwhelming scale,” “UTA’s performance as Gas Man is chilling,” and “the VFX quality is even better than expected” are pouring in.