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Attack on Titan Film Will Screen in '4D' in SM Mall of Asia

Philippine cinema chain SM Cinema announced on its Twitter account on Tuesday that the first live-action Attack on Titan film will be shown in 4D in the SM Mall of Asia theater.

Certain theaters in Japan employed the same technology when showing the film. With the 4DX or MX4D systems, certain theaters have motion seats that move in sync with certain action sequences onscreen. Similarly, effects such as scents and wind will operate in accordance with the action onscreen. Theaters with D-Box seats that move and IMAX screens will also screen the films. (The two anime compilation films are employing similar "4D experiences.")

The film opens in the Philippines on Wednesday.

Hajime Isayama's original Attack on Titan manga depicts the battles between humans and the giants who now rule the world outside humans' walled enclaves.

The film had its worldwide premiere in Hollywood on July 14. The film premiered in Japan on August 1, debuting at #1 in the Japanese box-office during the August 1-2 weekend. The film earned approximately 600 million yen (about US$4.8 million), and sold approximately 467,000 tickets for the weekend.

The second film, Attack on Titan: End of the World, will open in Japan on September 19. It will open in the Philippines on September 23

In the films' third poster above, the tagline reads, "Defy your fate…. If you don't fight, you don't win."

The films star:

Haruma Miura as Eren

Kiko Mizuhara as Mikasa

Kanata Hongo as Armin

Satomi Ishihara as Hans/Hanji

Nanami Sakuraba as Sasha

Takahiro Miura as Jean

Hiroki Hasegawa as Shikishima

Ayame Misaki as Hiana

Pierre Taki as Souda

Jun Kunimura as Kubal

Shu Watanabe as Fukushi

Satoru Matsuo as Sannagi

Rina Takeda as Lil

The cast includes seven characters that are new to the film versions of the story. Hasegawa's character Shikishima holds the key to the films' story as "humanity's strongest man."

Director Shinji Higuchi stated that, with the supervision of Attack on Titan manga creator Hajime Isayama, the story is based on the world and characters of the manga, while incorporating new characters and new formidable enemies. Yuusuke Watanabe (Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods, live-action Gantz, Gantz II: Perfect Answer, 20th Century Boys, Gatchaman) wrote the scripts. Film critic Tomohiro Machiyama, who is also friends with Isayama, worked on the scripts together with Isayama and Watanabe.

The band SEKAI NO OWARI is contributing the first and second films' theme songs "Anti-Hero" and "SOS," respectively.

Isayama's original Attack on Titan manga has inspired four spinoff manga, a 25-episode television anime version that aired in 2013, and two compilation films, the second of which will open in June. Additionally, a second season of the television anime series is slated to air in 2016. Isayama launched the series in Bessatsu Shonen Magazine in 2009.

VIVA-PSICOM Publishing Corp. is publishing Isayama's original manga in the Philippines. The company released the manga's third Tagalog compiled book volume in July.