The film is written, directed, and co-stars Hitoshi Ozawa, a legendary Yakuza actor who is a villain in Yakuza 0, who got his fellow legends involved.
This was his passion project inspired by one of his best friends, a trans woman, and he worked with the community for representative casting.
![penny-anna on tumblr: "Hi I have a question about Pacific Rim. Given that the sparring is just A way to test for drift compatibility and any activity that requires people to collaborate and anticipate each others moves works, including stuff like multi player video games
• Can you test for drift compatibility via improv comedy"
penny-anna on tumblr replies:
[A television still of comedians Ryan Stiles and Colin Mochrie sitting side-by-side on the set of Whose Line Is It Anyway?.]
"They are piloting a Jaeger together in my imagination"
penny-anna on tumblr replies:
"#hate this. im in the shatterdome trying to coordinate my jaegers in the field fighting for the fate of humanity #and these two chuckleheads over here won't stop doing bits on the open channel #they keep defeating kaiju with slapstick routines and its INFURIATING
yeah the worst part is it's actually working for them"
kyraneko on tumblr replies: "And their Jaeger is called Nihilistic Singularity (because it's a point that doesn't matter.)"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4djfp3b27soxcfkxhirydi6d/bafkreicodtt2e6lvyu7nbhzabnf3l7tasm6tmj4xjjn4jqovbmnrbum5hu)
