{"id":16255,"date":"2011-01-18T17:14:38","date_gmt":"2011-01-18T21:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=16255"},"modified":"2011-01-18T17:14:38","modified_gmt":"2011-01-18T21:14:38","slug":"justins-japan-japanese-sci-fi-film-%e2%80%98gantz%e2%80%99-holds-world-premiere-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2011\/01\/18\/justins-japan-japanese-sci-fi-film-%e2%80%98gantz%e2%80%99-holds-world-premiere-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin’s Japan: Japanese Sci-fi Film \u2018GANTZ\u2019 Holds World Premiere This Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

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'GANTZ' world premiere is Jan. 20 in the U.S. (Courtesy of Nikkatsu)<\/p><\/div>\n

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<\/strong> <\/em>JQ magazine<\/em><\/strong><\/a>\u2019s\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Justin Tedaldi<\/em><\/strong><\/a> (CIR Kobe-shi, 2001-02)\u00a0for Examiner.com.\u00a0Visit his NY Japanese Culture\u00a0page <\/em><\/strong>here<\/em><\/strong><\/a> to subscribe for free alerts\u00a0on newly published stories.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

GANTZ<\/a><\/em>, a new sci-fi film from Japan, is making its international world premiere at 325 U.S. movie theaters (including three in New York City) in an exclusive one-night event on Thursday, Jan. 20. Based on the long-running manga<\/a> and anime series originally created by Hiroya Oku, GANTZ<\/em> stars two of Japan\u2019s biggest leading actors, Kazunari Ninomiya (Letters from Iwo Jima<\/em>) and Kenichi Matsuyama (Death Note, Detroit Metal City<\/em>), who will both participate in an special live interview<\/a> exclusive to this event.<\/p>\n

Presented by NCM Fathom and New People, in association with Dark Horse Comics, GANTZ<\/em> tells the story<\/a> of childhood friends Kei Kurono and Masaru Kato, who are accidentally killed while trying to save another man\u2019s life. Rather than find themselves in the hereafter, however, they awaken in a strange apartment in which they find a mysterious black orb they come to know as \u201cGANTZ.\u201d Along with similar abductees, they are provided with equipment and weaponry and manipulated into playing a kind of game in which they are sent back out to the greater world to do battle with alien beings, all while never quite knowing whether this game is an illusion or their new reality.<\/p>\n

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By JQ magazine\u2019s\u00a0Justin Tedaldi (CIR Kobe-shi, 2001-02)\u00a0for Examiner.com.\u00a0Visit his NY Japanese Culture\u00a0page here to subscribe for free alerts\u00a0on newly published stories.\u00a0 GANTZ, a new sci-fi film from Japan, is making its international world premiere at 325 U.S. movie theaters (including three in New York City) in an exclusive one-night event on Thursday, Jan. 20. Based […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[263,119,340],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","category-japan-fix","category-justins-japan"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t