High-profile voice actors for Shadows of the Damned in Japan

by Jordan Mallory on Aug 15th 2011 3:45PM

Grasshopper Manufacture's Shadows of the Damned is set to infuse Japan with its Hot Boner this September. To help ensure that Japanese fans of grindhouse gore gravitate towards the product, it's enlisted some real-world celebrities to accompany the already extensive list of gaming celebrities attached to the title.

Tadanobu Asano, best known for his role as Kakihara in Ichi the Killer, will be lending his pipes to Shadows' profanity-proficient protagonist Garcia. Chiaki Kuriyama of Kill Bill: Vol 1 and Battle Royale fame will voice Garcia's kidnapped girlfriend, Paula, and Miyazaki veteran Tatsuya Gashûin will give voice to Johnson, Garcia's ~~phallic~~ freudian friend/weapon. Man, you'd think this was a Guitar Hero post on account of all this star power.

Source: Siliconera (1), (2)

Tags: Chiaki-Kuriyama, grasshopper, grasshopper-manufacture, microsoft, playstation, ps3, shadows-of-the-damned, Tadanobu-Asano, Tatsuya-Gashuin, xbox

Reader Comments (13)

Damn, that's a ensemble cast. Almost makes me wish I was able to understand Japanese.

Wait....so this game didn't come out in japan yet?

@iceveiled

I was wondering the same thing. I bet it will do better over there. Although its a shooter, that style of story and peculiarity of the game will resonate better with Japanese gamers.

@SpecBlank
Mmm, dunno. I think it's the kind of game that usually does terribly in Japan. Maybe getting a decent voice cast is part of their attempt to break that trend; if they actually promote it, could work... (Of course, if they had actually promoted it in the US, maybe it could've worked there too...)

It will for sure do better in Japan. Shame it wasn't very successful here. I enjoyed it.

Looks like the JP version might have censored the nudity.

This explains why I couldn't find Japanese voices with English subtitles when I played. Regardless, it was still a great game.

I hope it sells well over there, is a great game and Grasshopper Manufacture's deserves good money for their work.
A shame EA didn't give a crap in properly advertising the game...