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Odex Opens Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna in Southeast Asia Next Year
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Odex announced on Friday that it will open the Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna anime film in Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Vietnam in 2020. Odex is streaming an English-subtitled trailer for the film.
The film will open in Japan on February 21, 2020. Toei teases the film as "Taichi and Agumon's final adventure."
Tomohisa Taguchi (four-part Persona 3 the Movie film series, Kino's Journey - The Beautiful World, Twin Star Exorcists) is directing the film at Yumeta Company. Akatsuki Yamatoya (Digimon Adventure, Digimon Frontier, Digimon: Data Squad) is writing the screenplay, and Seiji Tachikawa (Kino's Journey - The Beautiful World, Blue Spring Ride) is the chief animation director. Toei Animation is credited for production.
Hiromi Seki, Toei Animation's original producer for the Digimon anime projects, is serving as the supervisor of the new film project. Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru is also returning from the first Digimon anime projects as the new film project's character designer. Kenji Watanabe is designing the Digimon monsters for the new project, as he has done for the previous Digimon projects.
The film stars:
- Natsuki Hanae as Taichi Yagami
- Yoshimasa Hosoya as Yamato Ishida
- Suzuko Mimori as Sora Takenouchi
- Mutsumi Tamura as Kōshirō Izumi
- Hitomi Yoshida as Mimi Tachikawa
- Junya Ikeda as Jō Kido
- Junya Enoki as Takeru Takaishi
- M.A.O as Hikari Yagami
- Chika Sakamoto as Agumon
- Mayumi Yamaguchi as Gabumon
- Atori Shigematsu as Piyomon
- Takahiro Sakurai as Tentomon
- Kinoko Yamada as Palmon
- Junko Takeuchi as Gomamon
- Miwa Matsumoto as Patamon
- Yuka Tokumitsu as Tailmon
- Fukujurō Katayama as Daisuke Motomiya (Davis Motomiya)
- Junko Noda as V-Mon
- Arthur Lounsbery as Ken Ichijōji
- Naozumi Takahashi as Wormmon
- Ayaka Asai as Miyako Inoue (Yolei Inoue)
- Kouichi Toochika as Hawkmon
- Yoshitaka Yamaya as Iori Hida (Cody Hida)
- Megumi Urawa as Armadimon
- Mayu Matsuoka as Menoa Bellucci
- Daisuke Ono as Kyōtarō Imura
The new film project is part of the overall 20th anniversary celebration of the franchise.