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Harmony Anime Film's Theatrical Preview Video Streamed
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The official website for the upcoming anime films based on the works of late novelist Project Itoh began streaming a new theatrical preview on Friday for the Harmony film. The video previews EGOIST's theme song "Ghost of a smile."
The film's cast includes:
- Miyuki Sawashiro as Tuan Kirie
- Yoshiko Sakakibara as Os Cara Stauffenberg
- Shinichirō Miki as Elliya Vashirof
- Akio Ohtsuka as Asaf
- Aya Suzaki as Cian Reikado
- Chō as Keita Saeki
- Junpei Morita as Nuaza Kirie
- Reina Ueda as Miach Mihie
Haikasoru describes Harmony's original novel:
In the future, Utopia has finally been achieved thanks to medical nanotechnology and a powerful ethic of social welfare and mutual consideration. This Perfect World isn't that perfect though, and three young girls stand up to totalitarian kindness and super-medicine by attempting suicide via starvation. It doesn't work, but one of the girls—Tuan Kirie—grows up to be a member of the World Health Organization. As a crisis threatens the Harmony of the new world, Tuan rediscovers another member of her suicide pact, and together they must help save the planet...from itself.
EGOIST (Psycho-Pass) is performing the theme songs for all three Project Itoh films. The Empire of Corpses opened in theaters in Japan on October 2, and Harmony will open on November 13. Genocidal Organ was slated for November 13, but the film was delayed after Manglobe filed for bankruptcy in September. The film's new debut date has not yet been announced.
Funimation will release the films in North America in 2016.
Each novel film adaptation is from a different director and studio. Shukou Murase (Witch Hunter Robin, Gangsta., Ergo Proxy) is directing Genocidal Organ at Manglobe (The Unlimited - Hyōbu Kyōsuke, House of Five Leaves), Takashi Nakamura (Fantastic Children) and Michael Arias (Tekkonkinkreet) are directing Harmony at Studio 4°C (Berserk: The Golden Age Arc I - The Egg of the King, Tweeny Witches), and Ryōtarō Makihara is directing The Empire of Corpses at WIT STUDIO (Attack on Titan, Hōzuki no Reitetsu).
Project Itoh released Genocidal Organ as his debut novel in 2007, and his final novel, Harmony, debuted in Japan in 2008. Project Itoh wrote Harmony and the novel adaptation of Metal Gear Solid: Guns of the Patriots while he was being treated for the cancer that ultimately took his life in 2009. The Japanese film website Cinema Today reported in 2012 that film adaptation rights were being pitched in Hollywood.
Viz Media's Haikasoru imprint has published three of Itoh's full-length novels in English, excluding The Empire of Corpses.
Source: Ota-Suke
