PREVIEW: The Deer King (15)

WHO’S IN IT? (ENGLISH VERSION)

Ray Chase (Licorice Pizza), Griffin Puatu (A Whisker Away), Erica Schroeder (Zarafa), Luciana VanDette (Shut In), Doug Stone (Robinson Crusoe), Neil Kaplan (The Sisters), Frank Todaro (The Ladybug), Luis Bermudez (Sing a Bit of Harmony), Keith Silverstein (Bubble), Chris Hackney (Master)

WHO’S IN IT? (JAPANSESE VERSION)

Shinichi Tsutsumi (Bali Big Brother), Ryoma Takeuchi (Yell for the Blue Sky), Anne Watanabe (Miss Hokusai), Hisui Kimura (film debut), Yoshito Yasuhara (Summer Days with Coo), Tesshō Genda (Akira), Tomomichi Nishimura (Tekkonkinkreet), Tooru Sakurai (Patema Inverted), Shinshū Fuji (Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin I – Blue-Eyed Casval), Atsushi Abe (Blood-C: The Last Dark)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Masashi Ando (film debut) and Masayuki Miyaji (Fusé: Memoirs of a Huntress), directors; Taku Kishimoto (Monster Strike the Movie), writer; producers TBA; Harumi Fuuki (The Emperor in August), composer; editor TBA

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Van (Chase/Tsutsumi), formerly a soldier in a brutal war, is enslaved in a salt mine where a pack of wild dogs carrying an incurable disease attack, leaving Van and a young girl named Yuna (VanDette/Kimura) as the only survivors. The two set out to live a free life in the countryside, but are pursued by outside forces while the disease continues to spread across the kingdom…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Masashi Ando, an animator who has worked on everything from Spirited Away to Your Name, makes his directorial debut with this sweeping animated epic about a man and his devotion to his young ward…

WHEN’S IT OUT?

WEDNESDAY 27TH JULY 2022

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

IN CINEMAS NATIONWIDE

 

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