The story behind Helms Deep - hundreds of years before the fateful war - telling the life and blood-soaked times of its founder, the King of Rohan.
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00:00♪♪
00:06Riders of the mark!
00:07Arise!
00:10When I was asked to make a movie based on the Lord of the Rings animation,
00:16the first thing that came to my mind was that I was a big fan of the trilogy,
00:22so I thought about how I could portray the world of Tolkien in a live-action movie.
00:28What does Mordor want with rings?
00:32Even though it's only a page and a half in the appendices,
00:35I've always loved the story of Helm's Deep and Helmhammerhead.
00:38I felt it would mesh well with the great Japanese filmmaker Kenji Kamiyama.
00:43Draw your weapons!
00:48In a lot of anime, emotions are heightened.
00:50Fire!
00:52It lends itself to the operatic nature of Tolkien's primal storytelling.
01:01Lord of the War Hero is a Sakura-Hanjo animated film.
01:16You know nothing of war.
01:17I pledge to fight for my king.
01:20You get the sense of the light and dark.
01:22You have all these landscapes and characters that look so beautiful.
01:26Seeing how the worlds of anime and Middle-Earth are married and fused,
01:31that's what makes this a totally new experience.
01:34It's off the bumper with this bearer.
01:38Who did Helmhammerhead?
01:41I honestly can't wait for Lord of the Rings fans to see the work that Kenji Kamiyama has done on this film.
01:48You're going to go, whoa!
01:49I didn't expect to feel this, but that's what anime can do.