The Mobile Suit Gundam: Cucuruz Doan's Island was announced to get both subtitled and English-dubbed versions in select theaters from September 21st, to 29th, in different participating countries outside Japan, as Crunchyroll announced that it just acquired the rights to the film!
The screening schedules starts in United Kingdom on September 21st and 22nd. While the United States will screen the film on September 27th and 28th, September 29th and October 1st in Canada, and for one week in Australia from September 29th.
The movie celebrates the revival of the "lost" episode of the original Mobile Suit Gundam anime series that first aired in Japan back in 1979. The retelling of the 15th episode has caught the attention of fans with the broaden battle scenes and in depth point of view of what really happened in the Cucuruz Doan's Island.
Here's the film synopsis as described by CRUNCHYROLL
After a covert mission goes wrong, Mobile Suit pilot Amuro Ray and his comrades are stranded on a remote island. The battalion was sent to a land called the Island of No Return to clear off any enemy forces, only to find a group of children and an enemy mecha attack. Now Amuro must find a way for them all to escape this mysterious land, but not before meeting a strange man—Cucuruz Doan.
SOURCE: CRUNCHYROLL
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