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Gantz:O Film Premieres at Venice Int'l Film Festival Before Japanese Debut

posted on by Jordain Haley-Banez
CG anime film adapting Gantz manga's Osaka arc screens out of competition

The official website for the 73rd Venice Film Festival announced on Thursday that the GANTZ:O "full 3D CG" anime film will screen at the event out of competition. The festival will begin on August 31 and end on September 10. GANTZ:O is slated to launch on October 14 in Japan.

Other Japanese films that will screen at the event include: Tai Kato's The Ondekoza, Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, and Kei Ishikawa's Gukoroku. Gukoroku is screening in competition in the "Orizzonti" category.

Keiichi Satou (Tiger & Bunny, Asura) is the chief director for the GANTZ:O film, and Yasushi Kawamura (Appleseed: Ex Machina CGI director) is directing the film. Tsutomu Kuroiwa (One Piece Film Gold script) is writing the screenplay. Digital Frontier is handling production.

The CG anime film is based on Hiroya Oku's manga, which followed a young Tokyo man named Kei who is reanimated after a deadly subway accident. Kei and other resurrected people go on violent, seemingly endless missions at the behest of an unseen host. The GANTZ:O film depicts the Osaka arc in which the Tokyo and Osaka mission teams take on the subjugation of the Yōkai Army.

Oku launched the 37-volume Gantz manga in Shueisha's Young Jump magazine in 2000, and he ended the manga in 2013. The manga inspired a television anime series animated by Gonzo (and released by ADV Films in North America) and two live-action films (released by NEW PEOPLE Entertainment). Dark Horse Comics released the final English volume of the manga in North America in October.

[Via Deadline]


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