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Cinema Today began
streaming the
second three-minute trailer for the upcoming computer-graphics film
Space Pirate Captain Harlock. The trailer includes the theme
song "Be the light" by rock band
ONE OK ROCK. While the trailer still centers on the title character, it also features Yama, a man ordered to assassinate Harlock.
The film
remakes the classic anime Space Pirate Captain Harlock with
Toei Animation's highest production budget ever at the equivalent of more than 30 million U.S. dollars.
Shun Oguri and
Haruma Miura star as the title pirate and the new character Yama, respectively.
In
Leiji Matsumoto's original 1977-79 manga, the title character rebels against Earth's inept government and fights for humanity with his crew of 40 aboard the invincible space battleship Arcadia. The manga inspired a 1978-1979 television anime series, a few features, and the sequel
Arcadia of My Youth: Endless Orbit SSX.
Writer
Harutoshi Fukui (
Mobile Suit Gundam UC novels, live-action Bōkoku no Aegis) reconstructed the story to reflect the themes of modern society, and
Shinji Aramaki (
Appleseed) is directing with the latest filmmaking technology in the style of a Hollywood production.
In addition to Oguri and Miura, the film stars
Yuu Aoi,
Arata Furuta, Ayano Fukuda,
Toshiyuki Morikawa,
Maaya Sakamoto,
Miyuki Sawashiro,
Kiyoshi Kobayashi, and
Chikao Ohtsuka as crew members aboard the Arcadia.
The film will open in Japan on September 7, and the London-based film sales company GFM Films has listed that it is
working on an international
dub.
ANN