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Gantz

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Gantz

"The only way to resurrect is to kill."

2010

2h 10m

6.5(355 votes)

Horror

Action

Science Fiction

Overview

After trying to rescue a man on the subway tracks, two teens wake up in a room dominated by a mysterious black sphere that sends them to hunt down and kill aliens hiding on Earth.

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Production Companies

Fukuoka Broadcasting System

Hiroshima Telecasting

Hokkaido Broadcasting

Horipro

J Storm

Miyagi Television Broadcasting

Nikkatsu Corporation

Nippon Television Network Corporation

Shizuoka Daiichi Television

Shueisha

Yomiuri Shimbun Company

TOHO

VAP

Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation

The people behind it

Cast & crew

10 featured cast members

Starring

Kazunari Ninomiya

Kazunari Ninomiya

Kei Kurono

Kanata Hongo

Kanata Hongo

Joichiro Nishi

Kenichi Matsuyama

Kenichi Matsuyama

Masaru Kato

Natsuna Watanabe

Natsuna Watanabe

Kei Kishimoto

Ainosuke Shibata

Tanaka Seijin

Yuriko Yoshitaka

Yuriko Yoshitaka

Tae Kojima

Ayumi Ito

Ayumi Ito

Eriko Ayukawa

Chieko Ichikawa

Kayo Sugimoto

Donpei Tsuchihira

Donpei Tsuchihira

Muso Tokugawa

Hidekazu Nagae

Hidekazu Nagae

Green Onion Father

Creative team

Directed by: Shinsuke Sato
Written by: Yusuke Watanabe
Produced by: Takahiro Sato
John Culton

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