Space Battleship Yamato (SPACE BATTLESHIP ヤマト, Supēsu Batorushippu Yamato?) is an upcoming live action film adaptation of the original Space Battleship Yamato anime TV series. It is currently under production and set to be released in Japan on December 1, 2010.
Plot
The year is 2199, and the Earth has been under radioactive siege from the Gamilas Empire for five years. Earth's population has moved underground to escape the bombardment, but the contamination is slowly penetrating to reach them. The crew of the Space Battleship Yamato sets out on a journey to the planet Iscandar to acquire a device that can heal the ravaged Earth before it is too late.
Cast
Takuya Kimura as Susumu Kodai, Mamoru's younger brother and Space Battleship Yamato's Tactical Unit Leader
Meisa Kuroki as Yuki Mori, Space Battleship Yamato's Tactical Unit's Black Tiger Team / Starsha, Queen of planet Iscandar (who looks exactly like Yuki)
Toshiro Yanagiba as Shirō Sanada, Space Battleship Yamato's Chief Science Officer
Naoto Ogata as Daisuke Shima, Space Battleship Yamato's Chief Navigator
Hiroyuki Ikeuchi as Hajime Saitō, Space Battleship Yamato's Space Cavalier Company Commander
Maiko (マイコ) as Aihara, Space Battleship Yamato Crew Member, Communications Unit
Shinichi Tsutsumi as Mamoru Kodai, Susumu's older brother, Space Destroyer Yukikaze's Captain
Reiko Takashima as Dr. Sado, Space Battleship Yamato's Ship Doctor
Isao Hashizume as Heikurō Tōdō, Earth Defense Force Commander-In-Chief
Toshiyuki Nishida as Hikozaemon Tokugawa, Space Battleship Yamato's Chief Engineer
Tsutomu Yamazaki as Jūzō Okita, Space Battleship Yamato's Captain
Toshihiro Yashiba as Yasuo Nanbu, Space Battleship Yamato's Tactical Unit
Kensuke Ōwada as Kenjirō Ōta, Space Battleship Yamato Navigation Unit
Kazuki Namioka as Saburō Katō, Space Battleship Yamato's Tactical Unit's Black Tiger Team Leader
Takumi Saito as Akira Yamamoto, Space Battleship Yamato's Tactical Unit's Black Tiger Team
Takahiro Miura as Furuya
Kana Harada
Koyuki
Aya Ueto as Sarsha, Starsha's sister
Naoto Takenaka
Teruyuki Kagawa
Masatô Ibu as Desler, Supreme Leader of the Gamilas Empire and main antagonist.[citation needed]
Kazuki Kitamura
Kenji Motomiya as a Kuukanki heitai ("Space Cavalier" or "Space Marine")
Production
LogoThe Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS) production company has been planning the live action film since 2005. Noboru Ishiguro, director and writer of the original Space Battleship Yamato television series, confirmed at his Otakon panel on July 17, 2009 that a live action version of Space Battleship Yamato was in development.
Director Takashi Yamazaki will helm the project for a planned December 2010 release. The film will use computer graphics and is budgeted at over 2.2 billion yen (US$22 million). The Daily Sports newspaper reported that 80% of the scenes will incorporate the latest CGI technology to recreate the space battles from the TV series.
Takuya Kimura stars as the main hero Susumu Kodai in the remake of the space opera classic. Erika Sawajiri was originally scheduled to also star in the film as the female lead character Yuki Mori, but was replaced by Meisa Kuroki.
Filming began on October 12, 2009 and was completed by year's end. Computer graphics, editing, and other elements of post-production will take over nine months before TOHO opens the film during December 2010 in Japan.
Official trailer
The first official trailer for the live action movie has been shown in Japanese TV since June 2010. The new trailer is longer and reveals several more features from the first series (1974) such as the re-designed EDF uniforms, and new EDF and Gamilas space battleships and starfighters. Also of note is the addition of elements from the second season of the TV series (which was originally broadcasted in 197 cool . These include Commander Hajime Saitō, his "Space Cavaliers" (Kuukanki heitai) and the final battle with the Comet Empire's Space Dreadnaught.
Theme song
On September 16 the website Tokyograph. a site that translates Japanese articles about entertainment, reported that Aerosmith's Steven Tyler wrote a song, titled "Love Lives", for the movie based on an English translated script and several clips of the movie. The song is also performed by Steven and will be released on November 24th a week before the movie is released. A preview of the song is heard in the official trailer. It will be Steven Tyler's first solo project.
Official Site: http://yamato-movie.net/
