The Silent Service Live-Action Film Releases New Trailer, Announcing More Cast Members
The official website for the forthcoming live-action film adaptation of Kaiji Kawaguchi’s popular manga The Silent Service posted a 30-second new teaser trailer and a new poster visual.
RELATED: Kaiji Kawaguchi’s The Silent Service Manga Gets Live-Action Film
New teaser trailer:
New poster visual:
The three taglines on the visual read:
“The man loads nuclear missiles on Japan’s first nuclear submarine and disappears into the deep sea.”
“The light is at the bottom of the sea.”
“We must look at this reality.”
In addition to the previously announced Takao Osawa as the protagonist, Shiro Kaieda, this new clip introduces more main cast members including:
- Hiroshi Tamaki as Hiroshi Fukamachi, the captain of the Japanese diesel submarine “Tatsunami”
- Aya Ueto as Hiromi Ichitani, a newscaster who tries to expose a government conspiracy
- Yosuke Eguchi as Wataru Kaibara, Chief Cabinet Secretary
- Tomoya Nakamura as Soushi Irie, a Self Defense Force member who was once on the same ship as Kaieda and Fukamachi
- Aoi Nakamura as Eiji Yamanaka, the Deputy captain of Seabat. Kaieda’s right-hand man.
Kawaguchi’s original manga was serialized in Kodansha’s Weekly Morning magzine from 1988 to 1996, then compiled in 32 tankobon volumes with a total circulation of 32 million copies (paper and digital). It was previously adapted into a three-chapter OVA series by Sunrise from 1995 to 1998.
The live-action film will be produced as an original film for Amazon Prime Video and will also be released theatrically by Toho nationwide in Japan on September 29, 2023. This is the first time Amazon has produced a Japanese theatrical film. Kohei Yoshimoto, whose Haken Anime! received high acclaim last year, is attached to direct. In addition to playing the protagonist, Takao Osawa also produces the film himself.
The story begins when the Maritime Self-Defense Force submarine Yamanami is sunk in a maritime accident near Japan. The survival of all 76 crewmembers, including the captain, Commander Shiro Kaieda, was hopeless. However, the crew survived the accident. They had been selected as crew members of a nuclear submarine secretly built by the U.S. and Japan, and the accident was a cover-up story to get them on board Japan’s first nuclear submarine.
????新ビジュアル解禁????
❰ 光は、海の底にある。 ❱
日本初の原子力潜水艦<シーバット>に
核ミサイルを積み
深海へ消えた海江田四郎(#大沢たかお)この男、テロリストか、救世主か―？
緊迫の
アクション・ポリティカル・エンターテインメント
映画『#沈黙の艦隊』
ご期待ください！#9月29日公開 pic.twitter.com/zt810sRQVh— 映画『沈黙の艦隊』公式アカウント (@silent_KANTAI) May 16, 2023
Source: “The Silent Service” live-action film official website / Twitter
(C)Kaiji Kawaguchi/Kodansha
©2023 Amazon Content Services LLC OR ITS AFFILIATES. All Rights Reserved.
