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Tomokazu Sugita, Megumi Hayashibara, Tohru Furuya Cast in Pacific Rim Film's Dub

Warner Brothers revealed the Japanese dub cast for director Guillermo del Toro's Pacific Rim film on Wednesday.

• Tomokazu Sugita as Raleigh Becket (played by Charlie Hunnam)
• Megumi Hayashibara as Mako Mori (Rinko Kikuchi)
• Tesshô Genda as Stacker Pentecost (Idris Elba)
• Tohru Furuya as Dr. Newton Geizler (Charlie Day)
• Yūji Mitsuya as Dr. Hermann Gottlieb (Burn Gorman)
• Shuuichi Ikeda as Herc Hansen (Max Martini)
• Shigeru Chiba as Tendo Choi (Clifton Collins Jr.)
• Daisuke Namikawa as Chuck Hansen (Robert Kazinsky)

The Pacific Rim film is about a futuristic war between humans and beasts called “Kaiju” (Japanese for monster) that rose from a portal in the Pacific Ocean and have killed millions of lives. The humans then create robots called Jaegers (German for hunter) as a counter-measure to the threat.

The film will premiere in American theaters on July 12, and in Japanese theaters on August 8.

Source: animeanime.jp

Update:

Trailer narrated by Sugita added. Thanks, Nunzia