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Live-Action Silent Service Sequel Film Streams Theme Song Trailer

The staff for Chinmoku no Kantai Hokkyoku-kai dai kaisen (The Silent Service: The Battle of the Arctic Ocean), the sequel film for the live-action project of Kaiji Kawaguchi's The Silent Service manga, revealed a new collaborative trailer with Ado on Friday previewing the theme song.

Ado performs the theme song "Kaze to Watashi no Monogatari" (The Tale of The Wind and I).

The returning cast members from the previous film and series include:

• Yoshi Sakō as Seiji Kageyama
• Yui Natsukawa as Hitomi Sonezaki
• Takashi Sasano as Toshio Takegami
• Yōsuke Eguchi as Wataru Unabara
• Aya Ueto as Ichiya Hiromi
• Aoi Nakamura as Eiji Yamanaka
• Tomoya Nakamura as Sōshi Irie
• Kō Maehara as Takuo Mizoguchi

The film's new cast are:

• Kenjirō Tsuda as Jun Ōtaki
• Jun Fubuki as Machiko Kaito
• Keisuke Watanabe as Kensuke Moriyama

Kōhei Yoshino directs the film with a script by Hikaru Takai. Yoshihiro Ike composes the music.

Other staff members include:

• Producers: Noriko Kobayashi, Shinzō Matsuhashi, Takao Osawa, Sachiko Senda, Nobushige Urabe
• Line producers: Tatsuya Mōri, Toshiki Shinbo
• Director of photography: Mitsuru Komiyama
• Director of art: Hidetaka Ozawa
• Lighting: Ayako Kato
• Recording: Eiryo Hayashi
• Editing: Tsuyoshi Imai, Saeko Muroya
• VFX supervisor: Hiroshi Nishida
• CG supervisor: Tadanori Inamura
• Supervising sound director: Masatoshi Katsumata
• Recording sound mixer: Toshiyuki Furuya
• Decoration: Shinichi Miura, Yuichiro Endo
• Costuming: Fumino Watanabe
• Hair and makeup: Michiyo Miyauchi
• Scripter: Nanako Hori
• Assistant director: Yuki Kishizuka
• Associate director: Kōji Yamaguchi
• Production managers: Megumu Sakurai, Yoshiaki Kimura

The first film opened in Japan on September 29, 2023, and sold 274,000 tickets for 370,136,800 yen (about US$2.46 million) in its first three days. Takao Osawa and Shinzō Matsuhashi produced the live-action film, Kōhei Yoshino directed the film, and Hikaru Takai wrote the script. B'z, with singer Ado as vocalist, contributed the film's theme song "Dignity."

In the story, Shiro Kaieda is appointed the captain of Japan's first nuclear submarine, jointly built by Japan and the United States in top secret. However, he and his 76 crew members go rogue in this story that delves into themes of nuclear war, international politics, and world peace.

The live-action series sequel titled Chinmoku no Kantai Season 1: Tokyowan Daikaisen (Silent Service Season 1: The Battle of Tokyo Bay) premiered on Amazon Prime in February 2024. The series' first four episodes focus on unreleased scenes not depicted in the film. Episodes 5-8 tell a sequel story.

Kawaguchi (Eagle, Kūbo Ibuki) serialized the manga in Kodansha's Morning magazine from 1988 to 1996. The manga already inspired a television anime special from Sunrise in 1996, followed by Sunrise's two-part original video anime from 1997 to 1998. Central Park Media offered the anime on videotape and later DVD.

Sources: TOHO Movies' YouTube channel, Comic Natalie