Set for wide release in Japan on August 23rd, 2014, the first full trailer for Initial D: The Movie – Legend 1: Awakening has been revealed. With the new trilogy set to retell the early stories with up to date theatrical level quality animation and styling, it may be something we’ve seen before but for many it’s a way to finally get the presentation a lot of us always wanted from it. The new trailer, clocking in at just over 90 seconds, provides a good look at the style of the feature as well as laying out the cast, which is made up of entirely new actors for the roles.
- Mamoru Miyano as Takumi Fujiwara
- Yūichi Nakamura as Keisuke Takahashi
- Daisuke Ono as Ryōsuke Takahashi
- Maaya Uchida as Natsuki Mogi
- Minoru Shiraishi as Itsuki Takeuchi
- Hiroaki Hirata as Bunta Fujiwara
Th efilm is being directed by Masamitsu Hidaka and Sanzigen and LIDEN FILMS base don the screenplay by Mayori Sekijima.
The manga, which began back in 1995, has had multiple anime adaptations over the years while the manga itself has done solidly and appealed to the region in which it takes place as well. The property even had a live action adaptation along the way.
Property concept: High school student Takumi Fujiwara works as a gas station attendant during the day and a delivery boy for his father’s tofu shop during late nights. Little does he know that his precise driving skills and his father’s modified Toyota Sprinter AE86 Trueno make him the best amateur road racer on Mt. Akina’s highway. Because of this, racing groups from all over the Gunma prefecture issue challenges to Takumi to see if he really has what it takes to be a road legend.
[Source: ANN]
