College student Kei Kurono (Kazunari Ninomiya) witnesses his childhood friend Masaru Kato (Kenichi Matsuyama) attempting to help a drunk who has fallen onto the subway train tracks and spontaneously jumps in to help him. However, both are run down by the oncoming train…

In the next instant, they are transported to a strange apartment with others who should also be dead. In the center of the living room is an enigmatic black orb known as ‘GANTZ’.

GANTZ enlists each of them on a mission to hunt down and exterminate ‘aliens’, providing them with fighting suits and weapons.

Is this a world of game or reality? Seeing people and aliens slaughtering each other, Kato is anguished, but Kurono gradually feels satisfied as he discovers his fighting ability…

With ‘life and death’ as the theme, this is a new type of suspense action entertainment!!

You’ve read NTV’s official synopsis above so you have the basics generously handed out to you, Wikipedia will just spoil everything. Still, more info: this is a two-part live adaptation of Hiroya Oku’s manga with the first part coming in January 2011 and the secondly shortly after: sometime during the spring period. Randomly resurrected bionic alien fighters on the cusp of Armageddon, all in Japan with random gratuituous screams and acts of violence? Oh yes. This will be a cult classic so much similar to Gunhed in cheesyness and roboguro. (read more on twitchfilm.net)