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An aggressively unpleasant all-CG rendering of a bestselling Japanese manga that may scrape by as a supplement to the canon, but fails on every level as a standalone film.
Jessica Kiang, Variety
Overview
After being brutally murdered in a subway station, a teen boy awakens to find himself resurrected by a strange computer named Gantz, and forced to fight a large force of invading aliens in Osaka.
Director and cast
- Yuki Kaji as Kei Kurono (voice)
- Daisuke Ono as Masaru Kato (voice)
- Saori Hayami as Reika (voice)
- Mao Ichimichi as Anzu Yamasaki (voice)
- Masaya Onosaka as Susumu Kimura (voice)
- Kenjiro Tsuda as Sanpei Taira (voice)
- Shuichi Ikeda as Yoshikazu Suzuki (voice)
- Teruaki Ogawa as Tetsuo Hara (voice)
- Tomohiro Kaku as Joichiro Nishi (voice)
- Masane Tsukayama as Nurarihyon (voice)
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