Discotek Adds Takashi Miike's Live-Action Yatterman Movie

Adaptation of Tatsunoko’s sci-fi comedy anime show to ship in 2013

The North American video distributor Discotek MediaBlue Submarine No. 6 Video Anime Added by Discotek Media. Read more ... » announced on Saturday that it licensed Takashi Miike’s live-action film adaptation of Tatsunoko’s science-fiction comedy television anime series YattermanAnime Sols New Streaming Service Slated for Spring 2013. Read more ... ». DiscotekAnime Release Plans for First Half of 2013 by Discotek. Read more ... » Media plans to release the film in 2013.

Sho Sakurai (Honey and Clover) starred in the film as Gan Takada, one half of the Yatterman superhero duo who fights the nefarious but bumbling Dorombo gang. SakiSaki National Tournament Arc Anime Adaptation Confirmed. Read more ... » Fukuda played the other half of the duo, Ai, while Kyoko Fukada, Katsuhisa Namase, and Kendo Kobayashi played the Dorombo gang.

The film opened in Japanese theaters on March 2009, after Miike and Sakurai hosted its world premiere at the New York Comic Con the month before.

Yatterman, which adapts the 1977 Tatsunoko Productions anime series with amazingly bold and fun faithfulness, originally hit theaters in Japan500 Japanese Women Pick The Top Dream Celebrity Boyfriends. Read more ... » in 2009, after it made its world premiere at New York Comic-Con. Takashi Miike rolled up in a limo but everyone there was screamin’ for dreamy star Sho Sakurai.

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