Animated film "Slaughterhouse Organ" to be released on February 3, 2017!　The new poster visual was announced on "TIFF Annie! with a new poster visual.

It was announced that the animated film "Slaughter Organ" will be released on February 3, 2012.

This film is one of the three works in the "Project Itoh" series of animated films: "Slaughter Organ" and "Harmony," original full-length novels by Keisuke Ito, who died prematurely in 2009 at the age of 34, and "Empire of the Corpse," a 30-page preface written by his close friend, Akutagawa Prize-winning author Tou Enjou, who completed the work after writing the preface. The production of this film was suspended due to the bankruptcy of the production studio. The production was suspended and the release postponed due to the bankruptcy of the production studio, and then the new studio "Geno Studio" established by Koji Yamamoto, the chief producer of this work, took over the production.

The release date was announced at the TIFF Ani‼ event "TIFF Ani‼ Part 1: Tokyo International Film Festival's "Best Anime Special Stage" Part 1" held on October 31. Yuichi Nakamura, who plays Captain Clavis Shepard, Takahiro Sakurai, who plays John Paul, and producer Koji Yamamoto took the stage at the event, where the first 15 minutes of the film was shown, and the above release date and latest poster visual were announced.
The following are comments from the speakers from the release.

Yuichi Nakamura
─ About the original work and its animation
I read the original work when I auditioned. I thought the battle scenes and conversations would look good on film, but if I made the film half-heartedly, it would be a disgraceful work. I also wondered if it would be okay because it was a work that required a high level of perfection. I also wondered if I could handle it. There is a lot of dialogue, but as the director said, if you cut it out, it would cease to be "Slaughterhouse". What would you do with it? I was looking forward to it.

─ After the bankruptcy of the production studio, the completion and release of the film was postponed.
（The day after the news (of the bankruptcy), I was interviewed for "Slaughterhouse Organ". I saw the news on the Internet and called the manager, and in the end, the interview was cancelled. But I was given a chance to make a fresh start, and I knew it would take more time and be better than it was at the time. With the sound in, I felt it had more gravitas.

Takahiro Sakurai]
─ About John Paul, the character you play.
He is the key man of the story. He is the one who found the "massacre" that is also in the title, something that works on people and causes them to do terrible things. Slaughter is a very strong and scary word, but he is a character with a deep fear that is a little different from what you might imagine from that word. He doesn't appear at first, but when he does, he is at the heart of the story, which makes him a difficult character to play.

─ About the climactic confrontation with Kravis, played by Mr. Nakamura
For me, Clavis was an important factor in shaping me. The fun of the play is that it doesn't turn out the way I imagined, but I could feel the power of Mr. Nakamura, and I enjoyed our conversation as John Paul.

─ ─ Highlights
The blood and other unforgiving expressions made me want to cover my eyes, but that was the hook that led me to the end of the play. Reality - maybe there is a reality? It is a work that makes you think about various things, such as the feeling that this kind of future may be coming.

Koji Yamamoto (producer)
--After going bankrupt, he started his own studio, made a fresh start, and completed the film.
（I made this film thinking that if I worked hard and completed it here, it would stand out (laughs). (He is wearing a T-shirt with "Slaughterhouse Organ" written on the back.) I carried a lot of things on my back (laughs)!