Space Battleship Yamato (2010 film)

Space Battleship Yamato
Image of the Space Battleship Yamato live action film logo and the titular spaceship found on the official movie website.
SPACE BATTLESHIP ヤマト (supēsubatorushippuyamato)
Genre	Space opera, Military science fiction, Adventure
Live-action film
Space Battleship Yamato
Directed by	Takashi Yamazaki
Written by	Original Story: Leiji Matsumoto Yoshinobu Nishizaki Noburo Ishiguro Screenplay: Shimako Sato
Music by	Naoki Sato
Studio	Toho

Space Battleship Yamato (SPACE BATTLESHIP ヤマト, supēsubatorushippuyamato) 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

The main cast of characters has been changed from that of the original anime TV series. Yuki will now have a more active fighting role, and two of the original anime main male characters – Aihara and Dr. Sado – will be female in the live-action version.

• 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.
• Kazuki Kitamura
• Kenji Motomiya as a Kuukanki heitai ("Space Cavalier" or "Space Marine")

Production

Logo

The 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.

Teaser trailer

A short teaser trailer for the film was first shown during late 2009 at the live concert "Johnny's Countdown" in Japan, serving as sponsor of the event. This concert is a yearly event that is held on New Year's Eve and that gathers all the artists from the Johnny & Associates talent agency (of which SMAP/Takuya Kimura is a member) in a single show. This trailer revealed several elements from the original Space Battleship Yamato TV series (broadcasted in 1974) such as re-designed uniforms and the new Space Battleship Yamato's interior, both inspired by the series 70s look.

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 1978). These include Commander Hajime Saitō, his "Space Cavaliers" (Kuukanki heitai) and the final battle with the Comet Empire's Space Dreadnaught.

Theme Song - Love Lives

On september 16 the website Tokyograph a site that translates Japanese articles about entertainment, report that Aerosmith's Steven Tyler wrote a song for the movie based off a 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.

External links

• Official website Template:Language icon
• Space Battleship Yamato at IMDb