「BATON」 – Project Announcement

Tasuya is set to be lending his voice to another project – this time a rotoscope/2D/3D hybrid animation called ‘BATON’. This will be a collaboration between Ryuhei Kitamura (Versus) and Shunji Iwai (All about Lily Chou-Chou) created for the 150th anniversary of the city of Yokohama. Instead of a 50 minute film it was revealed that BATON will be a trio of 20 minute episodes instead. They will screen at Theater Future on the bay in Yokohama from April 28th to September 27th 2009.

Official Site: http://www.baton-y150.jp/

Synopsis:
The 50-minute animation is a sci-fi fantasy story set in a future where space travel and migration between planets is possible. On Planet Abel, humans and robots co-exist. One day a mysterious stowaway on a transport vessel tries to invade the planet, but is discovered by Apollo (Hayato Ichihara), a robot that looks like a human; and Mikaru (Aya Ueto), a human that looks like a robot. The stowaway had in his possession a memory chip containing the latest in camouflage software, the mysterious “Sypher” OS. Apollo takes the Sypher chip simply for fun, but has no idea what he’s getting himself into. He suddenly starts acting strange, but Mikaru has no idea what’s wrong or that Sypher is behind it. What exactly is Sypher? What sort of secrets does it hold? Apollo and Mikaru will unravel a mystery encompassing the past, present, and future to find out.

Tatsuya voices the part of Sypher!

Other cast members include: Ren Osugi as ‘Dr. Newton’ and Mimura as ‘Hiroko Yazakiyaku’ as well as a whole load of others.

Sources: Twitchfilm.net, Nipponcinema.com