Tyrus Pictures Moves Japanese Horror Manga Noah Of The Blood Sea Toward the Screen

Tyrus Pictures is developing a feature film based on Noah Of The Blood Sea, a Japanese horror manga, and is aiming to begin production in 2027. The production company's plans were reported by Deadline on 9 November 2026.

The manga is also known in Japan as Kekkai no Noah. It was created by Yu Satomi and runs to five volumes. Its rights holder is Takeshobo, a Tokyo-based independent publishing house founded in 1972.

Tyrus has taken up the film rights through an option. That is a paid agreement that gives a buyer the right to develop a project for a set period before deciding whether to make it. The deal was negotiated by Hamid Mokhneche for Tyrus, and by Atsushi Kimura and Shin Ogasawara for Takeshobo. Michael Zelman and Mokhneche will produce the adaptation for Tyrus.

The book has already travelled well beyond Japan. Translated editions are available in Germany, Italy, France, Spain, Brazil, South Korea and Thailand. A Taiwanese edition is in development, and an English-language edition is planned for release in North America. Those editions give the story a reach that a film can build on, although none of them is tied to a screen date yet.

For Tyrus, the project fits a stated plan. The company aims to produce one to two feature films a year, with budgets from $5 million to $50 million. That range is a useful guide to the scale it works at. A horror film in that bracket typically has to earn back its costs at the box office, through ticket sales in cinemas, before any profit is made. No budget has been announced for Noah Of The Blood Sea.

What happens next is a chain of steps. A film needs a script, financing, a director and a cast before cameras roll. Any of those can move the timetable. For now, the news is the rights deal and the target year, and nothing more has been confirmed.

Adaptations of manga into films are a steady part of the industry, and the number of translated editions suggests the source material has a wide readership. Readers who know the book will be watching for the first casting or director news. Everyone else will learn about it here first, which is how most film projects begin: a publisher, a few signatures, and a producer who wants to see the story on a screen.