Evangerion shin gekijôban: Jo (2007)

Directors:

Masayuki
Kazuya Tsurumaki

Writer:

Hideaki Anno (screenplay)

Release Date:

1 September 2007 (Japan)

Genre:

Animation | Action | Sci-Fi

Plot Keywords:

School | Remake | Self Doubt | Loneliness | Post Apocalyptic

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Megumi Ogata	...	Shinji Ikari (voice)
Megumi Hayashibara	...	Rei Ayanami / Yui Ikari / Pen Pen (voice)
Kotono Mitsuishi	...	Misato Katsuragi (voice)
Yuriko Yamaguchi	...	Ritsuko Akagi (voice)
Akira Ishida	...	Kaworu Nagisa (voice)
Fumihiko Tachiki	...	Gendô Ikari (voice)
Motomu Kiyokawa	...	Kozo Fuyutsuki (voice)
Miki Nagasawa	...	Maya Ibuki (voice)
Takehito Koyasu	...	Shigeru Aoba (voice)
Hiro Yuuki	...	Makoto Hyuga (voice) (as Hiro Yuki)
Tomokazu Seki	...	Toji Suzuhara (voice)
Tetsuya Iwanaga	...	Kensuke Aida (voice)
Junko Iwao	...	Hikari Horaki (voice)
Mugihito	...	Kiel Lorenz (voice)
Spike Spencer	...	Shinji Ikari (voice: English version)

Also Known As:

Evangelion New Theatrical Version: Beginning (Japan) (literal English title)
Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone (International: English title)
Neon Genesis Evangelion: Rebuild of Evangelion 01 (Japan) (working title)

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for action violence and some nudity.

Runtime:

USA:98 min | Japan:98 min

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese | English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital EX | DTS-ES

Certification:

South Korea:12 | Singapore:NC-16 | New Zealand:PG | Australia:PG | USA:PG-13 (certificate #45424) | Canada:G (Quebec) | Canada:14A (Alberta/Manitoba) | Canada:PG (British Columbia/Ontario)

Filming Locations:

Tokyo, Japan

Company:

Gainax

Trivia:

As an April Fools joke for 2009, USA and Canada distributor FUNimation Entertainment released a bogus but well known cast list for the main characters, in the vein of the success of the Hollywood cast in Afro Samurai: Resurrection (2009) (TV). It included Shia LaBeouf as Shinji Ikari, Lindsay Lohan as Rei Ayanami, Miley Cyrus as Asuka Langley Sohryu, Angelina Jolie as Misato Katsuragi, Samuel L. Jackson as Gendou Ikari, and Sean Penn as Pen Pen.

Movie Connections:

Remake of "Shin seiki evangerion" (1995)

Soundtrack:

Beautiful World

For Those Who Will Discover It For the Very First Time

Evangelion 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone permeates limitless possibilities and pathways in a story so connective and universal yet shakes the foundations of the genres on which it stands on so much a new and profound experience emerges from its daring. Young Shinji Ikari arrives in Tokyo-3, a city rebuilt after a cataclysmic event called Second Impact that shed the world of half the human population, to meet and work for his estranged father. It turns out he only wants his son now to pilot a giant humanoid machine named Evangelion Unit 01 made to stop unknown beings referred to as Angels from eradicating the rest of humanity. Shinji is shocked and broken hearted but nonetheless agrees to pilot it. The question he now asks is why?

Evangelion 1.0 wants to know the answer. Besides saving humanity from eminent destruction, what does Shinji want, desire, need or even get from piloting such a contraption? Praise from the world? Respect? Purpose? His father's love? As Shinji begs for the answer to these questions the city befalls attacks by Angels that serve more than just an excuse for action scenes. When the Angels attack Shinji sees the sides of people around him he never saw before. It forces him and the others around him to understand their relationship to one another.

One of these is Shinji's follow pilot Rei Ayanami, a cool and collected girl who spends better part of the movie giving a ponderous stare into space more or less oblivious to those around her. When she does react she hardly seems to understand her own feelings. Shinji asks her why she pilots an Evangelion and her answer is as simple and contemplative as the movie.

The film is the first in a planned production of four films that re-imagine the 90s series Neon Genesis Evangelion. One of the most remarkable things about this movie is how easily the episodes translate into the arch of a feature length film. Despite that the movie is as much if not more so for viewers who have never seen the series. The movie itself refines certain points left unclear in the original show, making this version more clear and understandable for old and new viewers alike.

Though the final film in the set of four promises a completely new end to the story, old fans will find the first movie very familiar. However old fans who pay close attention to certain scenes in this movie will learn that the film does more than retell the story and in the process may redefine two of the most overused formats ever in the history of cinema.