Terra Formars Live-Action Movie's Teaser Trailer Released

11.06.2015 16:45

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The official website for the live-action movie of Terra Formars manga released a teaser video on Friday.

The movie will premiere in Japan on April 29. Takashi Miike will direct the movie, with scripts by Kazuki Nakashima.

Terra Formars originally is a science-fiction manga written by Yu Sasuga and illustrated by Kenichi Tachibana. The manga began serialization in Shueisha's magazine Weekly Young Jump in 2011, and the 15th volume will be published on November 19.

In an attempt to colonize Mars, the modified algae to improve environment and the spread medium cockroaches had put into Mars since 21st century. Five centuries later, the terraforming of Mars is now complete, but an unintended side effect of the terraforming process is revealing.

After the first manned ship to Mars lands was lost, the giant mutated humanoid cockroaches with incredible physical strength emerged, and they are later labeled "Terraformars". Then a second expedition arrived, they prepare to exterminate the cockroaches. To fight the Terraformars, the crew of the explorer has undergone "Bugs Procedure", a terrifying experimental surgery designed to make them more than human...

There is a poster debuted on Monday, showing the main cast wearing spacesuit costumes, and the tagline "we will survive".

 

The cast of the movie which has been previously revealed includes:

Hideak Itō as Shōkichi Komachi

Emi Takei as Nanao Akita

 

Takayuki Yamada as Ichirō Hiruma

 

Shun Oguri as Ko Honda

 

Kane Kosugi as God Lee

 

Rinko Kikuchi as Asuka Moriki, based on Victoria Wood

 

Masaya Kato as Keisuke Dōjima, based on Donatello K. Davis

 

Eiko Koike as Mina ōbari, based on Zhang Ming-Ming

 

Mariko Shinoda as Sorae ōsako, based on Jaina Eisenstein

 

Kenichi Takitō as Shunji Tezuka, based on Tejas Viji

 

Rina ōta as Maria Renjō, based on Maria Viren

 

Rila Fukushima as Sakakibara

 

 

The original manga contains some non-Japanese team members, and these members have had their names and part of their characters changed. For example, the Thai character Thien is now Jin Muto, as played by Tomohisa Yamashita (Yamapi).