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Summit of the Gods Film's Japanese Dub Previewed in Teaser
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Film distributor Longride unveiled a teaser trailer for the Japanese The Summit of the Gods (Kamigami no Itadaki) manga. The film will open in Tokyo's Shinjuku Piccadilly and Human Trust Cinema Yurakucho, as well in other theaters throughout Japan, on July 8.
The dub cast stars Asami Imai as Ryōko Kishi.
rights to the film outside of , Benelux, China, Japan, and Korea. Netflix released the film in select U.S. theaters on November 24 last year, and in select U.K. theaters on November 26. The film then streamed on Netflix on November 30.
The film won the award for the Best Animated Feature of the 47th César Awards in February.
Didier Brunner (The Triplets of Belleville, Kirikou and the Sorceress) produced the film. Cartoon Brew describes the film as a 2D/3D hybrid.
The manga is itself an adaptation of Baku Yumemakura's novel. The story follows Fukamachi, an avid wilderness photographer who discovers a link to the past in Kathmandu, Nepal. He finds a camera supposedly belonging to George Mallory, a mountaineer who went missing on Mt. Everest. After meeting Joji Habu, a well-known climber with a ionate drive for the mountain, the two set off to uncover a piece of lost history.
The series ran in ed away on February 11, 2017.
Source: Comic Natalie
