Update on Sakichi Satô's TOKYO ZOMBIE (TÔKYÔ ZONBI), starring Tadanobu Asano and Shô Aikawa

The official website for Sakichi Satô's Tokyo Zombie (Tôkyô zonbi) is now partly functional.

As was previously reported here on ScreenAnarchy, Tokyo Zombie is based on the eponymous manga by Yûsaku Hanakuma. Its principal cast apparently includes Tadanobu Asano (he's also in Sergey Bodrov's Mongol, Pen-ek Ratanaruang's Invisible Waves, Shinji Aoyama's Eli, Eli, lema sabachtani? (Eri Eri rema sabakuthani), Katsuhito Ishii, Hajime Ishimine (a.k.a. Aniki), and Shin'ichirô Miki's omnibus movie Naisu no mori: The First Contact, and all four stories in the omnibus horror movie Ranpo jigoku; earlier this year he was in Kôhei Oguri's The Buried Forest (Umoregi)), Shô Aikawa (earlier this year he was in Jun'ya Okabe's short "Specter"), Erika Okuda, Hideki Sone (he's also in Ryûichi Honda's Ikusa and Akio Yoshida's Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro: gekijô-ban: 'yûrei manshon'; earlier this year he was in Yasuhiro Horiuchi's Koroshi no okite, and last year he was in Keita Amemiya's "The Promise" ("Yakusoku") in the omnibus horror movie Tales of Terror (Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro: gekijô-ban)), Arata Furuta (he's also in Sabu's Hold Up Down (Hôrudo appu daun); earlier this year he was in Kankurô Kudô's Mayonaka no Yaji-san Kita-san, and two years ago he was in Tetsuo Shinohara's Karaoke Terror (Shôwa kayô daizenshû)), Satoshi Hashimoto, Yûsaku Hanakuma (see above), and Noriko Eguchi (she's also in Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Loft (a.k.a. "Shi no otome"), Shun'ichi Nagasaki's Heart, Beating in the Dark (Yami utsu shinzô), Ryûichi Honda's Ikusa, and Akira Ogata's The Milkwoman (Itsuka dokusho suru hi)).

Satô previously directed Gokudô deka (see the bottom of that article).

Tokyo Zombie teaser trailer (streaming, Windows Media)
Tokyo Zombie official website