The film will start playing in Japanese theaters on October 14, but will have its actual World Premiere at the 73rd Venice Film Festival later this Summer. Digital Frontier animated the studio while TOHO Animation handled overall production and distribution. It's obvious that TOHO put some money behind this project.
Hiroya Oku's Gantz manga launched in 2000 and ended in 2013 and 37 volumes. Studio Gonzo produced a 26-episode anime series in 2004. A two-part live-action film was released in Japanese theaters in January and April 2011.
SYNOPSIS: The anime film adapts the Osaka arc of the manga which begins the story a teenager named Kei Kurono and his friend Masaru Kato who die in a train accident but are transported to a semi-posthumous/purgatory game where they meet other recently deceased individuals and are forced to hunt down aliens to earn points. It's later revealed that the entire ordeal is part of a larger, extraterrestial conflict wherein alien technology was sent to Earth by a benelovent species in an attempt to help humanity fend off an impending attack from a conquering race currently headed to the planet.
CHIEF DIRECTOR: Keiichi Satou (Tiger & Bunny)
DIRECTOR: Yasushi Kawamura (Appleseed: Ex Machina)
SCRIPT SUPERVISOR: Tsutomu Kuroiwa (One Piece Film Gold)
Rated R for Mild Nudity