Amin Abbas

DUBAI: Tsuburaya Productions announced that Studio Khara’s Shin Ultraman movie will be released in Japan on May 13 next year. The company has released a new teaser trailer for the movie.

The upcoming Ultraman movie was delayed from its previously planned release date in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The movie is being directed by Shinji Higuchi, who also directed Shin Godzilla, and Hideaki Anno, the creator of Neon Genesis Evangelion, is in charge of planning and scripts for it.

The cast of Shin Ultraman movie includes: Takumi Saitoh, Masami Nagasawa, Daiki Arioka, Akari Hayami, Tetsushi Tanaka, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Koji Yamamoto, Ryo Iwamatsu, Kyusaku Shimada, Toru Masuoka, Keishi Nagatsuka, Hajime Yamazaki and Toshihiro Wada

The movie is a reboot of Tsuburaya Productuion’s original 1966 “Ultraman” series and part of the franchise’s 55th anniversary, which will be released in Japanese cinemas this summer.