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13 October 2008 7:49 AM, PDT | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »

Not exactly film news, this, but…

The Japanese are no strangers to hiring movie talents for spicing up their videogames, but Studio Level 5 (of DragonQuest fame) have taken this to, haha, the next level.

For their new RPG “Ni No Kuni: The Another World” (no typo), the animated cut-scenes will be done by Studio Ghibli. That’s quite a catch as you will agree.

And it doesn’t stop there either, for Joe Hisaishi will compose the game’s soundtrack. In case you’re wondering “Joe Who?”, well, shame on you!

He is perhaps most famous for composing the soundtracks of all of Hayao Miyazaki’s movies for the past 25 years, but he also collaborated on several movies with Takeshi Kitano like “Brother”, “Dolls”, “Kikujiro”, “Hana-Bi” and “Sonatine”. And that’s only scratching the surface!

Last week the Tokyo Game Show started, so Studio Level 5 released a trailer for “Ni »

- Ard Vijn

1 article from 2008