JAPAN: Wakusei Daikaijû Negadon (The Monster from Mars). 2006

Director: Jun Awazu
Stars: CGI generated people.
Release date: Japan - 25 Oct 2005
Genre: Anime/Sci-Fi/Giant Robots
Length: 25 mins

I'm not one for Anime very much, I prefer Kaiju films, though this looks like a good mix of both with it's rampaging realistic looking CG giant robots. They've made the graphics look like the 60s film style of the early Godzilla type films & it looks amazingly on target. Sky Captain had a similiar look, but this one has no human actors in it at all.

The Japanese DVD doesn't contain English subs, but US Anime label Central Park Media will be releasing it with subs mid 2006. Even though the film is short in length, it will apparently contain 35 mins of extra footage & loads of bonus material.

From the filmmakers
"The monster film. It is a genre which is unique and peculiar to Japan. We decided to make a short monster film that uses full-CG. This is a daring, foolhardy independent project. From the monster to machinery, the characters, background, and small articles, we created everything with CG. "NEGADON - the Monster from Mars" is a "digital monster film", a film for the future."

Synopsis
In the year 2025, the world population explodes to over 10 billion. In search for a new place to live, mankind initiates the space exploration project entitled “The Mars Terraforming Project.” Step by step, mankind successfully transforms Mars into a habitable planet. But when a Japanese freight spaceship returning from Mars crashes on the streets of Tokyo unleashing a giant and vicious monster from underneath the surface of Mars, only Dr. Narasaki and his long-abandoned robot Miroku can save Earth and mankind.

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