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Gamba CG Anime Film Gets 1st Trailer, Character Visuals

posted on by Karen Ressler
Shirogumi Inc. producing film based on 1972 children's book about mice

The official website for the upcoming 3D CG-animated film Gamba: Gamba to Nakama-tachi (Gamba & Companions) film began streaming a trailer on Friday.

The film will open in theaters in Japan on October 10. Starting on July 18, theatergoers who buy their tickets in advance can receive one of four character straps.

The website also unveiled the character designs and film poster. The poster is based on the original novel's cover.

Shirogumi Inc., the studio behind the 3D CG anime film Stand By Me Doraemon, is producing the film based on the children's novel Bōkensha-tachi Gamba to 15-Hiki no Nakama. Ryota Kosawa (live-action Always: Sunset on Third Street, Parasyte, Aibō, Legal High) is writing his first anime screenplay for the new film. Shirogumi Vice-President Yōichi Ogawa is serving as chief director and project planner, and Yoshihiro Komori (Rule of Rose PlayStation 2 game) and Tomohiro Kawamura (Ukkari Penelope) are jointly directing the film.

Marvel Studios co-founder and current Arad Productions producer Avi Arad (Spider-Man, Iron Man, X-Men, Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures) is serving as executive producer. According to Shirogumi President Tatsuo Shimamura, Arad saw the film and said that it may even come to North America. Benjamin Wallfisch (12 Years a Slave's additional music, opening sequence music in 2009's Moon) scored the music and conducted its performance by a full orchestra at London's famed Abbey Road Studios.

Atsuo Saitō's original 1972 novel is set in Yumemigajima, an island ruled by a fierce white weasel named Noroi. The town mouse Gamba and his friends fight to save the island's mice. It also inspired the 1975 television anime Ganba no Bōken (The Adventures of Ganba).

It has been 24 years since the last Gamba film, 1991's Gamba to Kawauso no Bōken (The Adventures of Gamba and Sea Otter, pictured left). The new film has been in planning for 15 years and in production for 10 years. It has a budget of 2 billion yen (US$16.7 million).

Source: animeanime.jp


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