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2nd Live Action Attack on Titan Film's Philippine September 23 Premiere Confirmed
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Event organizer Amuse Philippines confirmed the September 23 opening of the Attack on Titan: End of the World film in the Philippines.
Amuse Philippines also unveiled the film's Philippine poster.
Australian film distribution company Madman Entertainment previously streamed an English-subtitled trailer for the film on September 2.
Attack on Titan: End of the World will open in Japanese theaters on September 19. The first movie opened in Japan on August 1, and in the Philippines on August 12. The film debuted at #1 in the Japanese box-office and earned about 600 million yen (about US$4.8 million) in its first weekend in Japan.
The films star:
Haruma Miura as Eren
Kiko Mizuhara as Mikasa
Kanata Hongō 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.
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.
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 anime films, the second of which opened in June. Additionally, a second season of the television anime series is slated to air in 2016. Isayama launched the series in Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine in 2009.
VIVA-PSICOM Publishing Corp. is publishing Isayama's original manga in the Philippines. The company released the manga's fourth Tagalog compiled book volume in August.
