Hi, Scott from the anime column with some exciting news for kaiju/giant monster fans. Central Park Media Corporation (CPM), in cooperation with CoMix Wave of Japan, has announced acquisition of Jun Awazu's animation masterpiece, Negadon: The Monster from Mars, for exclusive North American distribution.
The anime film was directed by Jun Awazu from his original script and rendered in staggeringly realistic, film noir computer graphic style, similar to recent blockbuster hits such as Sky Captain & the World of Tomorrow. Credited as the world's first completely computer generated monster movie, Negadon pays homage to a wide variety of 1950's and 60's Japanese monster movies such as Godzilla and Mothra.
Released in Japan theatrically in October 2005, Negadon has won the Outstanding Production Award at the 20th Digital Contents Grand Prix and has been named a Jury Recommended Work at the 2005 Japan Media Arts Festival.
Negadon will be released theatrically this spring and on home video this summer. Central Park Media will make further announcements at New York Comic-Con at the end of February.
©Jun Awazu/CoMix Wave.
Story Synopsis In the year 2025, the world population explodes to over 10 billion. In search for a new place to live, mankind initiates the space exploration project entitled "The Mars Terraforming Project." Step by step, mankind successfully transforms Mars into a habitable planet.
But when a Japanese freight spaceship returning from Mars crashes on the streets of Tokyo unleashing a giant and vicious monster from underneath the surface of Mars, only Dr. Narasaki and his long-abandoned robot Miroku can save Earth and mankind.
