Film to screen in Asia, N. America, France, U.K, Benelux, Latin America, Germany, Middle East, Spain
Entertainment news magazine Variety reported on Sunday that ASMIK Ace and Fortissimo will screen Masaaki Yuasa‘s INU-OH, the musical anime feature film of Hideo Furukawa‘s Heike Monogatari: INU-OH no Maki (Tales of the Heike: Inu-Oh) novel, worldwide.
ASMIK Ace will release the film in Asia, North America, France, the U.K, and Benelux. The companies have sold the screening rights of the film to Sun Distribution for Latin America, Rapid Eye for Germany, Front Row for the Middle East, and Cinemaran for Spain.
The film will open in Japan in May 28.
Tasuku Emoto, Kenjiro Tsuda, and Yutaka Matsushige play Shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, INU-OH‘s father, and Tomona’s father, respectively. Avu-chan of the Queen Bee rock band plays INU-OH, and Mirai Moriyama plays…