Director: Takashi
Miike
Notable Cast: Hideaki
Ito, Emi Takei, Tomohisa Yamada, Kane Kosugi, Rinko Kikuchi, Masaya Kato, Eiko
Koike, Mariko Shinoda, Ken’ichi Takito, Rina Ohta, Rila Fukushima, Shun Oguri,
Ken Aoki
Although I am not personally familiar with the source
material for Terra Formars, it was
the kind of manga that stirred a lot of fandom. It spawned a lot of different
media around its ideas and it was only a matter of time before it received some
kind of live action feature film adaptation. What made this live action version
so tempting though was not the strange concepts or science
fiction/horror/action elements it could utilize as both entertainment and
thematic messaging, it was that Takashi Miike was helming the project. After
multiple successful adaptations of manga and anime series to live action,
including the wildly fun Ace Attorney,
the combination could prove too enticing for its own good. Slather the film in
some big names from Japan and it would see like the film could make a pretty
big splash.