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Funimation Films Announces Project Itoh's HARMONY For Limited Engagement Next Month

I have to hand it to books – continuing to serve as terrific source material for film and TV properties. Bearing this in mind is the latest announcement from Funimation Films for the upcoming limited engagement of Harmony, the third of three of the late Project Itoh’s works in the last few years. Harmony arrives in select theaters May 17 + 18! Presented in Japanese with English Subtitles and English Dub. Check your local theater for specific days and times for your language preference. Based on the Philip K. Dick award-winning novel by Project Itoh, Harmony explores the nature of humanity and the significance of free will in a peaceful futuristic utopia. In a future ruled by an unwavering dedication to good health, three high school girls led by the defiant Miach Mihie attempt suicide as the ultimate act of rebellion. Tuan Kirie survives, but can’t shake the hatred she […]

The Late Project Itoh's GENOCIDAL ORGAN Lands Park Chan-Wook To Direct For Live-Action

Lee B. Golden III

Fans of Park Chan-Wook may be delighted to learn that he’ll be reportedly directing a live-action adaptation of the popular novel-turned-anime slate, Genocidal Organ. The Tracking Board writes that The Sean Daniel Company who is producing the film, is the latest to finally succeed toward a live-action adaptation after efforts from the now-bankrupt Manglobe and currently-running Geno Studio now working on an animated project with Shuko Murase directing for release later this year. Genocidal Organ takes place in post-apocalyptic Sarajevo where the detonation of a homemade device has marked the Bosnian captial ground zero for the remaining world’s downward spiral into chaos and looming genocide. At the center of it all, a mysterious American man by the name of John Paul with intelligence agent Clavis Shepherd now tasked with finding him in order to locate the true heart of darkness: a genocidal organ. The novel was the debut work of […]

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GENOCIDAL ORGAN: Watch The New Promo For The Late Project Itoh's Sci-Fi Anime Thriller

Lee B. Golden III

It’s been six years since the passing of popular sci-fi novelist and essayist pennamed Project Itoh. However, that hasn’t stopped his inspired works from carrying on his legacy, and therin lies the agenda at hand for Fuji TV block, Noitamina, from gracing viewers with the forthcoming releases of three of his novels, one including director Murase Shukou‘s latest adaptation of Genocidal Organ, Itoh’s 2007 debut. Description via Viz Media: The war on terror exploded, literally, the day Sarajevo was destroyed by a homemade nuclear device. The leading democracies transformed into total surveillance states, and the developing world has drowned under a wave of genocides. The mysterious American John Paul seems to be behind the collapse of the world system, and it’s up to intelligence agent Clavis Shepherd to track John Paul across the wreckage of civilizations and to find the true heart of darkness—a genocidal organ. Watch the latest promo […]