'Noah' Japanese Trailer: That Ark Isn't Built As A Castle

We're fascinated with Noah, from Darren Aronofsky. The filmmaker has merged the sacred and the profane before, but never on this scale, and rarely for the sort of wide audience that a biblical epic like Noah is likely to draw. And we're still trying to get a sense of what the film really is — as is Paramount, if reports are any indication. So the trailers so far have been strange, with spatters of character clues and a good hint of spectacle, but I feel like we're really only seeing a small part of what the film will be.

Below, there's a new Japanese trailer for Noah, and despite the fact that it is cut for an audience that might not approach the film in the same way a conservative American audience might (and that's an audience that Paramount very much wants and needs for this movie) it still treads along a path very similar to what's been used of the domestic sales pitch.

But there's some new footage here, including a hint or two that the voyage through the flood is particularly rough.

Noah opens March 28, 2014, with Jennifer Connelly, Logan Lerman, Douglas Booth,Emma Watson, Ray Winstone, and Anthony Hopkins.

Academy Award-winner Russell Crowe stars as Noah, a man chosen by God for a great task before an apocalyptic flood destroys the world.