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GINTAMA 2: Crisis Looms And New Enemies Pull The Strings In The First Official Trailer

Hit anime series, Gintama, just began the final run of its long-running anime series this week with the Silver Soul arc, culminating an epic samurai/space saga that has drawn loyal crowds to manga shelves and live stage show readings for years. In the meantime, Warner Bros. Japan is making good on its successes with forthcoming sequel, Gintama 2, after hitting it big last summer with starring principles Oguri Shun, Hashimoto Kanna and Suda Masaki all back to reprise as the beloved odd jobs trio. They’re joined by a mix of returning and new additions to the cast that will mingle both the Shinsengumi Crisis Arc and the Shogun Assassination Arc; Both arcs are packed with kinetic, big-scale action and doeses emotive upheaval to couple with the usual serving of comedic, often forth-wall breaking gags Gintama is known for, which kind of speaks to just how returning director Fukuda Yuichi may […]

GINTAMA 2: Get A Look At Who’s Who In The First Official Poster For The Sequel!

Lee B. Golden III

It’s okay to want things! That’s at least one thing you can take away from the Shinsengumi Crisis Arc of the long running Gintama manga and anime franchise depending on your own sensibilities – such were that of “Tosshi”, Shinsengumi Vice Chief Toshiro Hijikata’s otaku persona when he chose to acquire an intriguing sword with its own dark history. …That’s the backstory to many of the images you’ve likely caught online as post production rolled on for Gintama 2, the upcoming live-action sequel to the 2017 film that retold a slight retooling of the Benizakura Arc. Title actor Oguri Shun is back in the role of Sakata Gintoki, a lazy, sweet-toothed ronin/odd jobs entrepreneur in an alternative Edo-period Japan with Hashimoto Kanna as Yato exile, Kagura and Suda Masaki as the straight-laced Shimura Shinpachi. Also returning is actor and musician Domoto Tsuyoshi who plays Takasugi, the elusive leader of the […]

Fukuda Yuichi’s GINTAMA 2 Hints At A Potential Crisis With New Character Teaser Posters

Lee B. Golden III

Sorachi Hideaki’s Gintama is a universe brimming with colorful characters, and for what it’s worth, director Fukuda Yuichi has done an albeit impressive job at manifesting it all into a reality for live-action cinema. He’s back at it again with a sequel tentatively titled Gintama 2 and while we await its August 17 release with much of the cast returning from the first film and subsequent festival and rollout news to come, new character posters are out and about and teasing the possible turn of events that could center heavily on the Shinsengumi and the Shogunate. Sitting center of the collage below is the 14th ruling Shogun of Edo himself, Tokugawa Shige Shige. On the left are Kawakami Bansai (close associate of the Kiheitai’s Takasugi Shinsuke played by actor and recording artist Domoto Tsuyoshi in the 2017 film) and Oniwabanshuu-trained ninja, assassin and café worker, Sarutobi Ayame, who has a […]

GINTAMA 2 Teaser Poster Parodies The Godfather Because Why The F*ck Not?

Lee B. Golden III

Yep. Because of course Warner Bros. Pictures Japan totally would with this poster for Gintama 2. Indeed it’s the kind of campaigning that fits right into the fourth wall-breaking spectrum of the anime and manga and those in the know would expect as much. All else is still pending about the actual follow-up to last year’s hit adaptation from director Fukuda Yuichi. Thus, we wait, and all while enduring the kind of tomfoolery courtesy of co-star Sato Jiro (a.k.a. the not-Marlon Brando of our generation) in the poster below.

GINTAMA 2 Signals The Fans With A Teaser Announcement!

Lee B. Golden III

And just like that, we have a teaser for Fukuda Yuichi’s upcoming Gintama 2 ahead of its August 17 release. Your guess is as good as mine on what’s to come following last year’s Benizakura treatment and though it looks more of an announcement sans any new footage there might be, it helps to see something. Even the logo looks pretty dang spiffy. As for the players: Oguri Shun, Masaki Suda and Hashimoto Kanna all reprise their roles based on the hit manga from Sorachi Hideaki with Sato Jiro, and even the enigmatic “Elizabeth” also returning to star.

GINTAMA 2 Signals A Trio Of Peacemakers In New Character Posters

Lee B. Golden III

I’m still a little bit on the fence about Fukuda Yuichi’s 2017 live-action adaptation of Sorachi Hideaki’s Gintama. Granted however, it’s a pretty short fence with lots of cozy bushes to land on as much as I’ve given the film a curve being a fan of the anime that I am and how generally fun the film was. Needless to say, I’m already curious about what the summer will bring with the forthcoming sequel, tentatively titled Gintama 2. The latest update over at the offical website doesn’t have much in the way of anything new apart from the expected return of actor Masaki Suda and actress Hashimoto Kanna in the respective roles of straight-laced Shinpachi and loveable, battle-proficient Yato exile Kagura. Both rejoin actor Oguri Shun who headlines the trio based on Sorachi Hideaki’s longstanding manga and subsequent anime. Gintama centers its whacky, often parodic narrative on a trio of […]

GINTAMA Unleashes Demonic Weapons And Old Rivals In The Official U.S. Trailer

Lee B. Golden III

Well Go USA has unveiled the full trailer for their latest limited theatrical release, Gintama. Azoland Pictures is hosting its U.S. and Canadian rollout which commences this Friday based on Sorachi Hideaki’s highly successful gag manga and its equally fantastic animated series which is currently running. Oguri Shun, Hashimoto Kanna and Masaki Suda star in the film here taking cues from the Benizakura Arc. I won’t get too much into the narrative here as I’ve promoted this movie a billion times and I still have yet to see it, and the trailer is subbed anyway; As it stands the current showtimes in my area aren’t conducive for me so expect me to have an opinion on it a few months from now when it opens on VoD and DVD/Blu-Ray. At any rate, check the trailer below. It’s nothing different from the Japanese trailer last summer but it’s something. However, note […]

GINTAMA: Catch The Official U.S. Trailer For Fukuda Yuichi’s Live-Action Manga Adaptation

Lee B. Golden III

Azoland Pictures is bringing Fukuda Yuichi’s live-action manga adaptation, Gintama, to the big screen in the U.S. and Canada beginning this Friday. It’s a film that I’ve especially waited for and have cheered on if only for the fact that the animated series, currently on its final arc from TV Tokyo, is my most favorite of all the shows I myself have seen, even as some who’ve seen cuts of the film since its rollout starting last summer in Japan have fallen short of some expectations despite becoming a regional box office hit. Oguri Shun, best known for roles in other adaptations like Miike Takashi’s first and second Crows Zero films leads the narrative based on Sorachi Hideaki’s long running gag manga set in an alternative universe where aliens have conquered Japan. The story, previously summed up in an animated feature edit in 2010, takes its cues from the Benizakura […]

GINTAMA: Azoland Pictures Acquires Fukuda Yuichi’s Live-Action Adaptation For Select Theatrical U.S. Release

Lee B. Golden III

Late last year a good friend of mine sent me the most adorable Kagura keychain in the world. I sent her a video of a partially-teared thank you because as it stands, Kagura is the most loveable and adorable character in the TV Tokyo anime series, Gintama, which is on track to debut its final story arc on January 8. The show took off from the genius mind of manga creator Sorachi Hideaki and in the most admirably meta of ways, became a sprawling hit. It was an easy sell for me from late 2016 and onward as I binged heavily and caught up long before Fukuda Yuichi’s live-action adaptation starring Oguri Shun, Suda Masaki and actress Hashimoto Kanna who plays the aforementioned Kagura-chan who plays central to the Battle On Rakuyo story arc. Needless to say, I’ve been waiting for the film’s transition to the states since its release […]

Fukuda Announces GINTAMA Sequel For 2018

Lee B. Golden III

Japan had an amazing run at the box office this year with manga adaptations, especially in the summer with Fukuda Yuichi’s live-action adaptation of Hideaki Sorachi’s long running manga, Gintama from Warner Bros. Japan. I don’t know what the buzz is on a critical scale but the film reportedly earned an impressive 3.84 billion yen which clearly paves the way for some good prospects to come. …And come, they did, with word via Crunchyroll by way of Comic Natalie that a sequel is now being slated for the Summer of 2018, according to an announcement made by the director himself at the UDX theater in Tokyo alongside the initial film’s star, Oguri Shun whose return to the role hadn’t yet been confirmed; The announcement was made in parallel to the promotion of the Japanese DVD and Blu-Ray. I’m a little surprised since Summer is only about seven or eight months […]

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GINTAMA: Beetlehunting, Swashbuckling, And A Battle For The Ages In Three New Promos For The Live-Action Adaptation

Lee B. Golden III

With a Japan release on July 14 in tow, Fukuda Yuichi’s latest live-action manga/anime treatment, Gintama, will be having its world premiere at Fantasia Festival in Montreal a day earlier. The film stars actor Oguri Shun who has become a personal favorite of mine in the last fifteen years or more since seeing him opposite Ueto Aya in Kitamura Ryuhei’s Azumi and in Miike Takashi’s Crows Zero and subsequent sequel. Yes, I’m a fan, and not for nothing either with regards to Gintama; I first learned of this movie late last summer which eventually led me to start bingewatching all of well over 300 episodes (4 seasons) of the hit series and ultimately falling in love with the show overall. I still probably couldn’t give you every nook and cranny of what happens, but for the major arcs that occur in between, I would say there is plenty to build […]

GINTAMA Gets An International Trailer Ahead Of Its Singapore Release

Lee B. Golden III

Fukuda Yuichi’s live-action adaptation, Gintama, is primed for a July 14 theatrical release in Japan with a world premiere in tow at this year’s Fantasia International Film Festival in Montreal. It also helps that Encore Films will be releasing the film theatrically on August 3 and for this, we now have an English-subbed international version of the film’s first official trailer to bring further context for non-fluent types. From beetle hunting to the search for the world’s deadliest sword… Who said life as a yorozuya is easy? After the aliens invaded and conquered Edo Japan, a prohibition on swords is established and the samurai are treated with disdain. Gintoki Sakata (Shun Oguri), a former samurai once feared as the “White Demon” in battle, now operates an odd jobs house with his friends Shinpachi Shimura (Masaki Suda) and Kagura (Kanna Hashimoto). One day, Gintoki receives a job request from a swordsmith […]

GINTAMA: THE MITSUBA ARC: A Tale Of Brotherly Love, Rivalry And Loyalty In The First Trailer For The Web Drama Spin-Off

Lee B. Golden III

The end is almost nigh for the wait until Fukuda Yuichi’s release of the new movie, Gintama, inspired by the pages of Sorachi Hideaki’s popular manga and subsequent anime series. The film is readying for a world premiere at Fantasia Fest next month followed by another screening in Bucheon later this year while Japan audiences gear up for a July 14 release with a live-action take on the Benizakura Arc. For this, we turn to the continuation of the tale now in the form of a three-part web drama that will stream on July 15 on Japan’s dTV platform with Gintama: The Mitsuba Arc, which delves heartily into the back story of the bittersweet rivalry between the two elite members of Edo’s samurai police unit, The Shinsengumi. Actors Yagira Yuga, Yoshizawa Ryo and Nakamura Kankuro are back along with, and supermodel and actress Kitano Kie in the respective roles of […]

[UPDATED] GINTAMA: Get A Kick Out Of The Second Official Trailer For The Live-Action Manga/Anime Adaptation

Lee B. Golden III

Being the galaxy’s dumbest samurai and an odd jobs peddler isn’t always either fun or easy. It does certainly help, however, if you have a legendary bearing and that of the principal role played by actor Oguri Shun has surely seen his share of battles per the mythology created in the longstanding popular manga and anime, Gintama. Now brought to life for the big screen from Warner Bros. Japan, the film presents a timely iteration of the Benizakura Arc of the series which entails an epic battle between our hero, and a rogue killer consumed by a biomechanical sword in a story set in a time when feudal japan is colonized by aliens. Fukuda Ryuchi of Hentai Kamen fame directs from a script based on the work of Sorachi Hideaki, and a release date set for July 14 in Japan. As the campaign has it, an official trailer finally arrived […]

GINTAMA: Epic Sword Fights, Explosive Sky Battles And A Big White Dog In The New Full Trailer

Lee B. Golden III

Adapting an anime is never easy. I suppose perfection is in the eye of the beholder and the same will undoubtedly be said of those awaiting to see the release of Fukuda Yuichi’s latest, Gintama as it’s one of the most celebrated anime shows and mangas to date with at least one more season in the works. Oguri Shun reunites with Fukuda and stars in the title role next to actor Suda Masaki and actress Hashimoto Kanna inspired by Sorachi Hideaki’s manga centered on a trio of odd jobbers struggling to make a living in an alternate version of feudal Japan – one wherein aliens live among humans and technology is ahead of its time. Knowledge of the show and its characters per the film’s casting hint on the film’s story focus via the Benizakura Arc, one in which friends are mysteriously murdered at the hands of a lone blind […]

GINTAMA Teases Origins, Heroes And Villains In A Brand New Live-Action Movie Teaser!

Lee B. Golden III

Warner Bros. Japan has had quite the full plate on its hands with several adaptations this year, one such being the upcoming release of director Fukuda Yuichi’s treatment of Sorachi Hideaki’s popular manga property, Gintama. If you’re not at all familiar with the Shonen Jump publication, it does comes highly recommended by fans and especially those keen on the current-running anime who are now waiting the upcoming final season. With that in mind, we now have our aforementioned Hentai Kamen 1 and 2 helmer’s take om the property which has actor Oguri Shun spearheading our wacky sci-fi period action comedy set in an alternate Edo period in Japan where aliens have colonized, the samurai are obsolete, and extremist forces await their chance to seize control. For this, the latest short teaser has arrived with ample new footage following the first in December, further iterating the events from the top of […]

See Odd Jobs Gin At Work In New GINTAMA Set Pics And Stills

Lee B. Golden III

If there’s one movie I’m really looking forward to, it’s director Fukuda Yuichi’s live-action adaptation of hit manga and anime, Gintama. Granted, I know quite a few people who aren’t really keen on the film’s take thusfar but the reception from the fanbase has been pretty positive in my view. The film opens in July adaptating the story of a trio of odd-jobs entrepreneurs in a Edo period’s post-alien occupancy where samurais have been outlawed. Actors Oguri Shun and Suda Masaki and actress Kashimoto Hanna topline the cast of characters as seen in the shonen jump manga and subsequent animated shows and anime movies, one of which includes the Benizakura Arc as hinted by the character posters that have arisen since late last year. With an official trailer in tow, Comic Natalie has offered new set photos and behind-the-scenes pics to check out below with our cast, including actor Okada […]

Meet The Shinsengumi In A Trio Of New GINTAMA Character Posters

Lee B. Golden III

The Yorozuya trio are currently in the midst of their latest epic battle on Rakuyo in the current animated run of hit series, Gintama. In the meantime, with the previous season’s finale came the departure of Edo’s disavowed samurai police force known as the Shinsengumi, sent into exile by a notorious Emperor who all but usurped his way into power. That said, will Fukuda Ryuichi’s live-action adaptation of the manga and its show extend outwards to any franchise potential long enough to exhibit the story? That’s a question that will surely need answering in due time while we await Fukuda’s re-telling of the Benizakura Arc in the new movie slated for release this summer, which will no less include our very own Shinsengumi trio played by none other than Yagira Yuya as the mayonaise-addicted Hijikata Toshiro, Nakamura Kankuro as Shimura Tae’s stalker, Isao Kondo and Yoshizawa Ryo in the role […]

Meet The Kiheitai In New Character Posters For Live-Action GINTAMA

Lee B. Golden III

We only get to see but a hectic glimpse of him in the teaser, but now we have a full-on display of Parasyte Part 1 and 2 co-star, actor Arai Hirofumi in full costume as Okada Nizo in Fukuda Yuichi’s upcoming live-action adaptation, Gintama. He is otherwise known as Nizo “The Butcher”, the cold-blooded razor-sharp assassin whose skills with a sword are amplified with his consumption by the Benizakura, a mechanical demon sword of legend as told in Sorachi Hideaki’s popular manga and subsequent anime series and animated movie installments. Nizo’s emergence, in accordance with his affiliation with the post-Jouishishi War extremist group, the Kiheitai, is also accompanied by sexy gunslinger Kijima Matako played by actress Nanao and actor Sato Jiro in the role of the perverted, self-proclaimed “feminist”, Takechi Henpeita. Actor and musician and actor Domoto Tsuyoshi rounds out the villain end of things as Kiheitai leader, Shinsuke Takasugi, […]

New Live-Action GINTAMA Character Posters Reveal Two More

Lee B. Golden III

Two more character posters arrived on Sunday for director Fukuda Yuichi’s live-action adventure adaptation, Gintama. The new posters now available in the album below host actress Nagasawa Masami in the role of Shimura Tae and Muro Tsuyoshi as Gengai Hiraga in the upcoming film dated for July 14, 2017. Shimura Tae is the older sister to Shinpachi – played by actor Suda Masaki, and the caretaker of their late father’s martial arts school which she supports through her work as a tough-as-nails cabaret hostess. Gengai is an inventor and engineer often responsible for aiding Shinpachi and the other two of his Odd Jobs Gin outlet on their more perilous quests, save for his knack for inadvertently sabotaging gadgets via his addiction to soy sauce. The posters come a few days since the emergence of actor Okada Masaki’s character visual as Kotaro Katsura, yesteryear wartime rebel cohort to Odd Jobs Gin […]