Teaser trailer for Jun'ya Satô's YAMATO (OTOKO-TACHI NO YAMATO)

A teaser trailer (not to be confused with the pre-production promo trailer) has been added to the official website for Jun'ya Satô's Yamato (Otoko-tachi no Yamato).

As was previously reported on Twitch, principal photography for Yamato began on March 26 in Hiroshima Prefecture's Mukaishima Town - which, two days later, merged with and into Onomichi City. The budget for the film reportedly is ¥1.5 billion (approx. $14 million U.S.); construction of the battleship set - which is as wide as the actual ship was, and apparently will, when completed, be about 3/4 as long - reportedly has already cost ¥600 million (approx. $5.5 million U.S.).

Yamato is based on Jun Henmi's non-fiction books Ketteiban otoko-tachi no Yamato (ue) and Ketteiban otoko-tachi no Yamato (shita). Starring in it are Takashi Sorimachi, Shidô Nakamura (Nakamura Shidou), Jundai Yamada (he's also in Su-jin Kim's Dreaming of Light (Garasu no tsukai)), Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Dai Watanabe, Hiromi Sakimoto, Kenta Uchino, Ryô Hashizume (Hashidume Ryou), Kyôka Suzuki (Suzuki Kyouka), and Tatsuya Nakadai.

For more info on Yamato, see Twitch's seventh, sixth, fifth (includes a link to the 'Yamato cam'), fourth, third, second, and first articles on it.

Teaser trailer (Windows Media)
Teaser trailer (RealMedia)
Promo trailer (Windows Media)
Promo trailer (RealMedia)
Official website