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009 Re:Cyborg Film to Open in 5+ Asian Regions at Same Time
posted on by Crystalyn Hodgkins
Producer Cyborg 009 will open in more than five Asian regions simultaneously. Ishii confirmed that the film will screen in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, and South Korea.
SANZIGEN Animation Studio will co-produce the film. The film is slated to open in Japanese theaters next fall.
In the original manga, the secret Black Ghost organization transforms nine unsuspecting humans into cyborgs. However, the nine cyborgs turn on their masters and protect the rest of humanity from Black Ghost's plans for world war.
There have already been three Cyborg 009 television anime series which premiered in 1968, 1979, and 2001. There have also been three theatrical anime films in 1966, 1967, and 1980. Another director with Panasonic.
Kamiyama (produced a 3D Pepsi Nex ad with Cyborg 009 earlier this year. Kamiyama is both directing and scripting the story of the new film, which will be set in the year 2013.
revealed in a 2008 Animation World Magazine interview that he wrote a story and redesigned the characters for an animated feature adaptation of Cyborg 009. There has been no confirmed connection between the new anime project and Peter Chung's pre-production work.
Source: Oricon
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