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The Deer King Film's 2nd Trailer Announces Rescheduled February 4 Opening
posted on by Egan Loo
The official website for Nahoko Uehashi's Shika no Ō (The Deer King) medical fantasy novel series, announced on Monday that the film has been rescheduled to February 4, 2022. It also posted the film's second full trailer and a new visual with the new date:
The film was dub in North America in early 2022.
The film screened at the Animation Is Film Festival in Los Angeles in September.
The main cast are:
- Shinichi Tsutsumi as Van
- Ryōma Takeuchi as Hossal
- Anne Watanabe as Sae
Fruits Basket) is penning the script.
created the theme song "One Reason" for the film.
Kadokawa originally published the novels in two volumes simultaneously in September 2014, and then rereleased the series in four volumes in June and July 2017. The novels have more than 1.5 million copies in print.
The novels center on Van, the head of a group of soldiers who expected to die fighting for their lands against a large empire looking to incorporate their home into its kingdom. Instead of dying, however, Van is taken as a slave and thrown into a salt mine. One night, a pack of strange dogs attacks the salt mine, and a mysterious illness breaks out. During the attack, Van takes the opportunity to escape, and he meets a young girl. Elsewhere, rumor is spreading that only immigrants are coming down with this mysterious illness. The medical scientist Hossal risks his life to search for a cure. Doctors also study a father and child who seem to have survived the illness. The novels tell the interconnecting stories and bonds of those who fight against a cruel fate.
The novels won the Japan Booksellers' Award and won the fourth "Japan Medical Novel Award" in 2015.
Uehashi's Hans Christian Andersen Author Award in 2014.
Source: The Deer King film's website, The Mainichi Shimbun's Mantan Web
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