DVD "1.0.1" version with 266 enhancements to be rescreened in Japan in April
Evangelion: 1.0 You Are [Not] Alone, the first of four movie remakes of the
Neon Genesis Evangelion television series, is
going back to the theaters in Japan in an enhanced edition. For the upcoming Japanese DVD
release, director
Hideaki Anno supervised the video and audio enhancements of 266 shots. On April 26 (the day after the DVD ships), a Tokyo theater and an Osaka theater will start screening this enhanced edition as the last showing of the evening. The enhanced version will get a name "update":
Evangelion:1.01 You Are (Not) Alone. The follow-up to this movie has been
announced for 2008, but the release date has yet to be set.