Trailer - Thermae Romae

The official website for Hideki Takeuchi’s upcoming live-action adaptation of Thermae Romae has been updated with a trailer.

Based on a manga by Mari Yamazaki, the movie stars Hiroshi Abe as an ancient Roman bath house design engineer named Lucious who—while desperately seeking inspiration for a new idea—gains the ability to slip back and forth through time from the public bath in ancient Rome to a bath house in modern day Japan.

Through his encounters with the “flat-faced clan” (his unfortunate name for the Japanese people) he encounters, he discovers that they too share a love of baths and becomes so fascinated with their innovations that he decides to “invent” them in his own time. Meanwhile, he meets a young Japanese manga artist named Mami (Aya Ueto) and ends up taking her on a wild adventure through time.

Thermae Romae will be released by Toho in Japan on April 28, 2012.