Bringing the trilogy full circle this year is director Shinsuke Sato with a third installment of the Kingdom saga based on the work of mangaka Yasuhisa Hara. Following the film’s announcement a few weeks ago in Toho’s 2023 line-up, we now have the film’s first official teaser to kick off the new year which you can view below.
The film reunites Sato with actor Kento Yamazaki following their latest banner success with season two of Alice In Borderland on Netflix. Sato and Yamazaki paired up for the inaugural hit film in 2019 which is set against the backdrop of the Warring States period, and tells of a young slave who finds himself protecting a king in exile against his usurped stepbrother.
The film also starred Ryo Yoshizawa and Kanna Hashimoto who returned for the 2022 summer sequel, Kingdom 2: To The Land Of Faraway, with both films becoming top box office grosses with a combined total of over ten billion yen. The sequel’s cast also featured Nana Seino (Offbeat Cops), Hiroshi Tamaki (The Way of the Househusband The Movie), Koichi Sato (Fukushima 50), and Takao Osawa (The Great Yokai War: Guardians), all of whom will now return for this summer’s pending threequel which opens July 28 from Toho.
Check out the newest teaser below!
