There had been some talk during the latter part of 2009 about a live-action Space Battleship Yamato feature film from Japan, based on the anime of the same name. There was even a trailer of sorts, but by my recollection (and I could be off here), it was pretty short, even for a trailer. Now, though, we get a full, one-and-a-half-minute trailer.

Pajiba recently found this awesome fan-made trailer for a live-action remake of the anime film Technotise (thanks to Steve Jacobs for the heads-up). I'm unfamiliar with the anime, but apparently Hollywood really is considering the film for a remake.

The Japanese website Cinema Today has reported that a Gigantor (a.k.a. Tetsujin 28) feature film is in the works (via the Anime News Network).

Variety brings us the news that Dreamworks will be making a live-action, 3-D adaptation of Ghost in the Shell, a popular Japanese anime/manga property.

Sci Fi Wire reports that the Japanese have erected a life-size, sixty-foot-tall statue of the classic Japanese robot character Gigantor (known in Japan as "Tetsujin 28-go," ["Iron Man No. 28"]) in the city of Kobe.

Keanu Reeves recently told MTV that the slated live-action adaptation of Cowboy Bebop, a Japanese sci-fi/action anime, is going through a re-write because it would have been way too expensive for 20th Century Fox to make.

Steve Weintraub at Collider.com claims that inside sources have told him that the script to Akira, the live-action American remake of the popular animated Japanese sci-fi film, is near completion.