[Movie] Space Battleship Yamato (live action ver)

[daigong]

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Space Battleship Yamato is an upcoming live action film adaptation of the original Space Battleship Yamato anime TV series. It is currently under production and set to be released in Japan in December 1, 2010.

Cast
# Takuya Kimura as Susumu Kodai, Mamoru's younger brother and Space Battleship Yamato's Tactical Unit Leader
# Meisa Kuroki as Yuki Mori, Space Battleship Yamato's Tactical Unit's Black Tiger Team
# Toshiro Yanagiba as Shirō Sanada, Space Battleship Yamato's Chief Science Officer
# Naoto Ogata as Daisuke Shima, Space Battleship Yamato's Chief Navigator
# Hiroyuki Ikeuchi as Hajime Saitō, Space Battleship Yamato Crew Member, Space Cavalry Leader
# Maiko (マイコ) as Aihara, Space Battleship Yamato Crew Member, Communications Unit
# Shinichi Tsutsumi as Mamoru Kodai, Susumu's older brother, Space Destroyer Yukikaze's Captain
# Reiko Takashima as Dr. Sado, Space Battleship Yamato's Ship Doctor
# Isao Hashizume as Heikurō Tōdō, Earth Defense Force Commander-In-Chief
# Toshiyuki Nishida as Hikozaemon Tokugawa, Space Battleship Yamato's Chief Engineer
# Tsutomu Yamazaki as Jūzō Okita, Space Battleship Yamato's Captain
# Toshihiro Yashiba as Yasuo Nanbu, Space Battleship Yamato's Tactical Unit
# Kensuke Ōwada as Kenjirō Ōta, Space Battleship Yamato Navigation Unit
# Kazuki Namioka as Saburō Katō, Space Battleship Yamato's Tactical Unit's Black Tiger Team Leader
# Takumi Saito as Akira Yamamoto, Space Battleship Yamato's Tactical Unit's Black Tiger Team
# Takahiro Miura as Furuya
# Kana Harada
# Koyuki
# Aya Ueto
# Naoto Takenaka
# Teruyuki Kagawa
# Masatô Ibu
# Kazuki Kitamura as Dessler, the main antagonist.



THE.MOST.AWESOME.CAST.EVER.

[maliciel]

ｷﾀ━━━━ヽ(ﾟ△ﾟ  )ﾉ━━━━!!!!

Takuya Kimura makes me tingly.

[daigong]

I dunno about tingly but gotta give him props for this:

Takuya Kimura takes pay cut to fund 'Space Battleship Yamato' revisions
Source: Channel News Asia


TOKYO: Japanese superstar Takuya Kimura has volunteered to take a pay cut to revise the upcoming film "Space Battleship Yamato" in which he stars.

According to Japanese media reports, Kimura said he was moved to tears after watching James Cameron's "Avatar" and immediately urged "Space Battleship Yamato" director Takashi Yamazaki to watch the film as well.

Kimura also asked Yamazaki if they could "revise the CG [computer graphics] scenes in 'Space Battleship Yamato' using 'Avatar' as a reference".

He added that he was deeply impressed by the high quality 3D scenes in "Avatar" and went on to point out that while "Space Battleship Yamato" was a Japanese film and "Avatar" was an expensive Hollywood production, "the difference [in quality] between them was just too great".

The actor's suggestion has unsettled the production crew working on "Space Battleship Yamato". Some said he had gone overboard in his quest for perfection.

"Space Battleship Yamato", based on a popular animated series of the same name, was already in post-production when Kimura made his suggestion. If the CG scenes are reworked, costs will escalate and Kimura will have to re-shoot these scenes again.

This will force the film, slated for a December release, to go over budget and become delayed.

Kimura said he will adjust his schedule to re-shoot his scenes and will forego a portion of his fees to defray the costs of these revisions.

- CNA/ha

 

[Aioros]

New Trailer:

[daigong]

Hilarious! kinda like starwars, weird with some old white guy barking orders.

Meisa in tight yellow jumpsuit baby

[Rickker708]

I am solooking forward to this. One of the first "cartoons" I saw as  a kid and fell in love with.
Started me down a path that eventually brought me here to JPH!P.

[RatBastich]

[raiki]

and when dpes this movies release??
damn cant wait to watch meisa and aya ueto in one movies with high quality CG and action

[RatBastich]

[yumechu]

Kimura's in it, so it's definitely a must-watch for me, but I guess I'll have to wait... and wait... And I'm probably not even going to like it because I'm not into sf haha.

[Saburo]

Mark Schilling gave it three stars (out of five).  Good prospects.

[daigong]

Kimura lays it down!!

[Rickker708]

anyone see the movie? find a DVD release date?