‘Heavens: The Boy and His Robot’ to Premiere in Japan – Global Bulletin

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief
“Heavens: The Boy and His Robot,” a Singapore-produced movie, will have its world and commercial premiere in Japanese cinemas this November. The film is Singapore’s first live-action feature film of the mecha genre, a genre of Japanese manga and anime that features or focuses on mechanical innovations such as robots and cyborgs.
The film is an action-adventure drama with offbeat humor, following the journey of a struggling young pilot, Kai, and his fighter mecha, Little Dragon.

Set against a backdrop of epic galactic warfare, the movie explores Kai’s dream of joining the Mecha Corps to bring peace to a war-torn world and the unique friendship that develops between him and his mecha.
The film is very much the product of Rich Ho, who serves as producer, director, writer, film music composer, art director, set designer, director of photography and co-visual effects supervisor.
Distribution in Japan (under the localized title “Mechaverse: Shonen to Robotto”) is being handled by Elles Films. International sales are being handled by Ho’s Heavens Entertainment, having taken over from previously announced Arclight Films.

NHK Enterprises, an affiliate of Japan’s public broadcaster NHK, has picked up Japan rights to Brazilian media giant Globo’s “God Save the King.” The show is a medieval telenovela with Marina Ruy Barbosa (“Total Dreamer”), Romulo Estrela (“A Life Worth Living”) and Bruna Marquezine (“Brave Woman). The show will play from Sept.

4 in Japan on Pay-TV’s Channel Ginga and on Lemino, an OTT platform run by NTT Docomo.
Written by Daniel Adjafre, with artistic direction by Fabrício Mamberti (“We Are Five”), “God Save the King” is set in the fictional region of Gália, where the kingdoms