#Mobile Suit Gundam: Cucuruz Doan’s Island Film Announces Release Date & Main Voice Cast

The official website for the forthcoming new feature film Mobile Suit Gundam: Cucuruz Doan’s Island has announced that it is set to be released in Japan on June 3, 2022. An illustration to commemorate the announcement newly drawn by the film’s chief animation director/character designer Atsuhi Tamura has arrived.

The site has also revealed the film’s eight main voice cast members, including Toru Furuya and Toshio Furukawa who reprise their roles as Amuro Ray and Kai Shiden from the original series, respectively. Hirotaka Suzuoki, the original cast of Bright Noah, already passed away in 2006, and Ken Narita, who has played Bright since Mobile Suit Gundam UC in 2014, is again cast as the character. And it is confirmed that Sleggar Law, a character who appears late in the original TV anime story, makes his appearance much earlier.

Main voice cast:

• Amuro Ray: Toru Furuya (Tuxedo Mask in Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon)
• Bright Noah: Ken Narita (Sesshomaru in InuYasha)
• Mirai Yashima: Satomi Arai (Beatrice in Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World-)
• Sayla Mass: Mugumi Han (Momiji Soma in Fruits Basket)
• Kai Shiden: Toshio Furukawa (Asuma Shinohara in Mobile Police Patlabor)
• Hayato Kobayashi: Hideki Nakanishi (Alan in Nodame Cantabile)
• Fraw Bow: Misato Fukuen (Yoshika Miyafuji in Strike Witches)
• Sleggar Law: Tomofumi Ikezoe (Furanken in Francesca)

As its title suggests, the film is based on the first Mobile Suit Gundam TV anime‘s 15th episode of the same name, which was aired in Japan on July 14, 1979. The episode depicted the melancholy of war through the interaction of the protagonist, Amuro Ray, with Doan, a deserter from the Zeon army. The film version tells that story again, using the latest visual technology, including CGI. The first series’ character designer / chief animation director Yoshikazu Yasuhiko serves as director.

Main staff:

• Planning and Production: Sunrise
• Original Story: Hajime Yatate, Yoshiyuki Tomino
• Director: Yoshikazu Yasuhiko
• Assistant Director: Ka Hee Im
• Screenplay: Toshizo Nemoto
• Character Design: Yoshikazu Yasuhiko, Atsushi Tamura, Tsukasa Kotobuki
• Mechanical Design: Kunio Okawara, Hajime Katoki, Kimitoshi Yamane
• Art Director: Yuji Kaneko
• Color Design: Nagisa Abe
• Director of Photography: Takeshi Kuzuyama, Ryo Iijima
• CGI Directing: Shuhei Morita
• CGI Director: Yasuhito Abe
• Editing: Kazuhiro Nii
• Sound Director: Sadayoshi Fujino
• Music: Takayuki Hattori

Sources: “Mobile Suit Gundam: Cucuruz Doan’s Island” official website / Twitter

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