GOLDEN KAMUY: ATTACK ON ABASHIRI PRISON Delivers A Riotous Sequel Teaser
The feature sequel opens in Spring 2026!
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ALICE IN BORDERLAND Takes You Beyond In The Official Season Three Trailer
The action-packed survival saga returns on September 25!
KINGDOM: New Footage Teases Kento Yamazaki In Action For The Fifth Installment
In the hours that followed a major poster reveal on Thursday evening in my time zone, Toho revealed the official super teaser for the fifth entry into the Kingdom saga which you can view below. The footage, as does the poster, features audio from the cast of the franchise, namely lead actor Kento Yamazaki, who now dons a brand new uniform in succession with the journey of his character per Yasuhisa Hara’s hit manga. Franchise steward Shinsuke Sato is directing the film from a script by continuing scribe Tsutomu Kuroiwa, with Credeus, Inc. CEO, Shinzo Matsuhashi producing. Further casting details remain pending as production commences, as well as an official title following Kingdom (2019), Kingdom: Far And Away (2022), Kingdom: The Flame Of Destiny (2023), and Kingdom: Return Of The Great General (2024). The new chapter opens in summer of 2026. Check out the super teaser below!
KINGDOM Saga Teases Fifth Chapter With New Poster
Award-winning actor Kento Yamazaki is back in the saddle for a brand new chapter!
GOLDEN KAMUY: THE HUNT OF PRISONERS IN HOKKAIDO: Netflix Slates February Debut For Hit Sequel Series
Kento Yamazaki is giving me life this year, personally. The man is a star of multiple franchises including the live-action Golden Kamuy film from director Shigeaki Kubo, as well as its sequel series which debuted last year on WOWOW… AND a feature film continuation as I reported last month. The first film streamed on Netflix and so I can only imagine the upcoming feature will arrive all the same in due time. Meanwhile, the WOWOW series that followed is happily being included in the streamer’s catalogue beginning February 6 with Golden Kamuy: The Hunt Of Prisoners In Hokkaido, with Yamazaki and actress Anna Yamada among the roster of new and returning cast. The intense scramble for the tattooed skins finally begins! The latest trailer introduces several new characters who join the series, which dives into the heart of the story. Live and shine in this thrilling survival battle for hidden […]
KINGDOM: RETURN OF THE GREAT GENERAL Review: Shinsuke Sato’s Latest Rages On In An Extant Tale Of High Drama And Heroic Bloodshed
Kingdom: Return Of The Great General is now streaming on Netflix in the U.S. Imaginably, if the rest of us outside of Japan got to see Shinsuke Sato’s Kingdom: Return Of The Great General, the film would have easily listed for many of us somewhere in our top favorite action titles of 2024. Interest be damned, however, the obligatory window still applies for titles like these, and now the film is finally streaming on Netflix as of Wednesday. Sato’s continued adaptation of Yasuhisa Hara’s celebrated manga-cum-anime fave re-establishes the cast of the franchise thusfar, led by Kento Yamazaki, Ryo Yoshizawa, Kanna Hashimoto, and Takao Osawa, as well as Nana Seino. Additionally, the film also brings back actors Koji Kikkawa and Oguri Shun whose characters are introduced in the outro sequences of the previous chapter, Kingdom: The Flame Of Destiny. As Ohki (Osawa) prepares to lead the Qin army into its […]
Toho Announces GOLDEN KAMUY Sequel
Toho has announced a sequel to Shigeaki Kubo’s latest Meiji-era manga adaptation, Golden Kamuy. The film was adapted for the screen by Tustomu Kuroiwa and featured a cast led by Kento Yamazaki and Anna Yamada, and released in Japan cinemas back in January. Based on Satoru Noda’s award-winning Seinen manga out of Weekly Young Jump which ran from 2014 through 2022, Kubo’s Golden Kamuy hails from Credeus, Inc., the production label behind the Yamazaki-led Kingdom trilogy. Golden Kamuy is set during the aftermath of the Russo-Japanese War, and sees Yamazaki in the role of Sugimoto, a celebrated Imperial war hero who, along with an indigenous Ainu hunter named Asirpa, finds himself at the center of a mystery involving a band of prison escapees beholden to tattoos of a ciphered map locating a hidden cache of gold. The inaugural film went on to a wider release via Netflix the following May, […]
UNDER NINJA: Kento Yamazaki Is A Ninja On A Mission In The Official Trailer!
The official trailer is now live for Under Ninja, the latest screen adaptation based on manga lore from Yuichi Fukuda of Gintama and Hentai Kamen fame. Based on Kengo Hanazawa’s 2018 publication, the movie stars Kento Yamazaki as a listless, jobless, and unemployed ninja tasked with investigating a high school, a mission that turns out to be much more than he’s led to believe. The movie opens on January 24, and also stars Minami Hamabe, Shotaro Mamiya, Mai Shiraishi, Chihiro Yamamoto, Ryubi Miyase, Ryotaro Sakaguchi, Amane Okayama, and Mitsuru Harata. A slew of character posters have been made available as well in recent days which you can check out just beneath the player featuring the cast.
UNDER NINJA: Kento Yamazaki Revealed In First Official Teaser For New Live-Action Adaptation!
If you were eager for more of anything with Kento Yamazaki after the Kingdom franchise and his upcoming Yin Yang Master Zero flick and Golden Kamuy series, fret not! Leave it to Yuichi Fukuda to bring to life the actor’s latest iteration in live-action form for manga adaptation, Under Ninja, which centers on a jobless, unemployed ninja suddenly tasked with a new assignment. More in the official description below, translated via Toho: After the end of the Pacific War, the first order given by GHQ when they occupied Japan was to disband the “ninja” organizations. It seemed as if all ninjas had disappeared, but they were hiding in various organizations around the world and were still operating in the present day. It is said that there are about 200,000 of them. Kumogakure Kuro (Genin), a low-ranking ninja belonging to the ninja organization “NIN”. One day, while he had a lot […]
GOLDEN KAMUY Review: A Gem That Fuels The Hunt For More In Shigeaki Kubo’s New Action Epic
5.5 min. read Manga and anime adaptations are hard to make for live-action film presentations. Difficult however they may be, they’re far from impossible, and there are plenty of examples to find online. This platform has covered quite a few of them too, and to add, that stretch continues with Shigeaki Kubo’s new flick, Golden Kamuy. Now streaming on Netflix, the film based on Satoru Noda’s Weekly Shonen Jump manga brings actor Kento Yamazaki back into the fold with a script by Kingdom franchise scribe Tsutomu Kuroiwa. The casting of Anna Yamada also lends to the atmospheric depth of Hokkaido with a circumspect treatment on the indigenous Ainu people of North Japan during the late Meiji period. For this, our story is set at the tail-end of a bloody battle during the Russo-Japanese war. Saichi Sugimoto is one of the 1st division’s fiercest soldiers, having time-and-again survived wounds that would […]
Teaser: GOLDEN KAMUY Sequel Series Lands Fall Premiere On Japan’s WOWOW
Shigeaki Kubo’s latest manga adaptation, Golden Kamuy, has a new series in the works, and there’s a teaser online as well. The show will succeed the events of the movie which opened in January from Toho, and with Kubo joined by directors Kenji Katagiri, Ken Ochiai, and Yosuke Sato to direct their own episodes. Hailing from Credeus, Inc., the production label behind the Kento Yamazaki-led Kingdom trilogy from director Shinsuke Sato, Kubo’s Golden Kamuy is based on Satoru Noda’s award-winning Seinen manga out of Weekly Young Jump which ran from 2014 to last year. The story, set in the aftermath of the Russo-Japanese War, sees Yamazaki in the role of Sugimoto (Kento Yamazaki), a celebrated Imperial war hero who, along with an indigenous Ainu hunter named Asirpa (Anna Yamada), finds himself at the center of a mystery involving a band of prison escapees beholden to tattoos of a ciphered map […]
GOLDEN KAMUY Takes You Behind The Scenes With Kento Yamazaki As A Soldier In Training
I haven’t seen Shigeaki Kubo’s new movie Golden Kamuy as it’s only just released in Japan theaters last month. Still, the distributors over there were kind enough to release a behind-the-scenes featurette showing lead actor Kento Yamazaki training for the lead role of a legendary late-Meiji era soldier. That meant reteaming with the ever accountable Yuji Shimomura, longstanding in the field of Japanese stunts and action on film and having collaborated with Yamazaki already on Shinsuke Sato’s Kingdom franchise and Netflix series “Alice In Borderland”. Serving as action director on Golden Kamuy, clearly it’s a partnership that provides both with plenty of experience with each other in the rigorous training, prep and teamwork to make the on-screen action possible. And not for nothing either. A reel like this is especially worth checking out as exemplary for the kind of rehearsals committed actors like Yamazaki are readily engaged in, especially with […]
ONMYOJI ZERO: Witness The Beginnings Of A Legendary Yin Yang Master In The Official Trailer!
The massive undertaking that is K20: Legend Of The Mask helmer Shimako Sato’s latest work now comes with a full on official trailer for the April 19 Japan release Onmyoji Zero from Warner Bros. Japan. Top to bottom with its own title track by Japanese alt rock quartet Bump Of Chicken, even. We also have a new poster brimming with a cast led by Kingdom franchise and “Alice In Borderland” series star Kento Yamazaki. Also starring are Nao (Sweet My Home, #Manhole), Masanobu Ando (The Fable: The Killer Who Doesn’t Kill), Nijiro Murakami (Tokyo Revengers 1 & 2), Mitsuto Itagaki (And Yet, You Are So Sweet), Jun Kunimura (Kiba: The Fangs of Fiction, The Roundup: No Way Out), Kazuki Kitamura (From The End Of The World), and Kaoru Kobayashi (Kubi). In Heian times, almost a thousand years ago, most believed in the existences they could not see. People, demons, and […]
KINGDOM: THE FLAME OF DESTINY Review: Secrets, Lies And Intrigue Heat Up Shinsuke Sato’s Already Propulsive Third Chapter
Kingdom: The Flame Of Destiny is streaming on Netflix. Filmmaker Shinsuke Sato is staying the course with his sprawling action adventure saga that is Kingdom, based on the work of mangaka Yasuhisa Hara and with production banner CREDEUS Inc. in his wheelhouse. With a fourth film in toe, Netflix subscribers now have a chance to run the current three-film course leading up to the latest installment, Kingdom: The Flame Of Destiny, segueing to the next phase of Sato’s Warring States epic with Kento Yamazaki, Ryo Yoshizawa and Kanna Hashimoto each reprising their roles. Also among the returning cast are actors Nana Seino and Masami Nagasawa, and Takao Osawa, the latter in what continues to be the most pivotal role of the whole franchise, possibly. To get the gist of what I’m saying, and if you haven’t done so yet, I recommend watching the first two installments. Otherwise, Kingdom: Flame Of […]
KINGDOM: RETURN OF THE GREAT GENERAL Signals The Next Explosive Chapter In The First Teaser
Director Shinsuke Sato’s treatment of the Kingdom franchise continues to be one of the greatest and most beautiful looking things to happen to live-action manga adaptations, all right up to this past summer’s hit third chapter release, Kingdom: Flame Of Destiny. Following its announcement in September, the next feature installment based Yasuhisa Hara’s publication is only half a year away now with the July 12 release of Kingdom: Return Of The Great General, with Toho leading the charge as its begun so with an official teaser to signal fans. The cast of returning and new characters is led by Kento Yamazaki who continues the saga as Shin, the former orphan-turned-warrior whose ongoing pursuits to become the greatest general in the Warring States carry with them the memory of a beloved friend Piao, who sacrificed himself as the penultimate body double to King Eisei, both dually played by Ryo Yoshizawa. Following […]
ONMYOJI-0 Official Trailer, Posters Reveal Cast Led By Kento Yamazaki For Shimako Sato’s New 2024 Fantasy Epic!
Warner Bros. Japan has unveiled the first official trailer for director Shimako Sato’s Onmyoji-0, the latest adaptation of Baku Yumemakura’s longstanding novels. The campaign is also pulling back the curtain off its casting line-up, featuring actor Kento Yamazaki in the title role. Sato, whose credits partly include the Eko Eko Azarak and Unfair films, as well as 2008’s Takeshi Kaneshiro starrer, K-20: Legend Of The Mask, penned the script under Yumemakura’s stewardship with Jujutsu consultation by essayist and author Nanami Kamon. Together, the team have crafted an all-new original story that focuses on the early days of Abe no Seimei in his studies to become an Onmyoji – a monastic practitioner of magic, mystics, astrology and divination. Onmyoji-0 marks a new career addition to Yamazaki who currently fronts director Shinsuke Sato’s Kingdom franchise based on Yasuhisa Hara’s hit manga series, as well as Takashi Miike’s live-action JoJo’s Bizzare Adventure: Diamond […]
ALICE IN BORDERLAND: Netflix Signals Season Three Of The Hit Fantasy Action Survival Series
Netflix has greenlit a third season of hit series Alice In Borderland, just a few days after teasing the news on social media. Casting details are currently unknown apart from the returns of series regulars Kento Yamazaki and Tao Tsuchiya in their respective roles. The series also rejoins with Shinsuke Sato back in the chair to direct, based on Haro Aso’s hit Shogakukan manga publication about a listless gamer who gets mysteriously transported with select members of Tokyo’s population to a parallel universe where everyone must participate in a deadly segmented game of survival. Season one premiered in December 2020, followed by a second season in December 2022 which teases the Joker card at the end of the series. Yamazaki also stars in Sato’s live-action treatments of hit manga, Kingdom, which opened its third installment in Japan theaters in July, and is also on track for a fourth sequel. Sato’s […]
Shinsuke Sato’s KINGDOM Saga Continues With A Fourth Movie On The Way
Principal photography has already wrapped on a fourth installment of Shinsuke Sato’s sprawling live-action adaptation of the hit manga, Kingdom. The news comes following the release of the Toho/Sony Pictures International saga’s third chapter, Kingdom: Flame Of Destiny, which opened in Japan back in July. Kento Yamazaki (Netflix’s “Alice In Borderland”) leads a cast that includes Ryo Yoshizawa (Bleach) and Kanna Hashimoto (Gintama), for a story based on Yasuhisa Hara’s hit manga and adapted for the screen by Tsutomu Kuroiwa. Set during the Warring States, the saga chronicles war orphan Shin (Yamazaki) on his harrowing quest to become a great general, while aiding King Eisei (Yoshizawa) on his mission to unify China. The first and second films are currently streaming on Netflix in the U.S.. Further details on the fourth title and release remain pending as the film resume’s post-production. Read more at Eiga. Lead pic: Poster art for Kingdom: […]
GOLDEN KAMUY Official Teaser Signals ‘High & Low’ Director’s Latest With Kento Yamazaki In 2024!
Director Shigeaki Kubo of HiGH&LOW franchise fame is a name I, and others among my mutuals have come to love and appreciate over the last eight years or so. His latest return to the big screen comes by way of Toho nowadays as fans of actor Kento Yamazaki can now look toward January 19 for the Japan release of the new survival action thriller, Golden Kamuy. Hailing from Credeus, Inc., the production label behind the Yamazaki-led Kingdom trilogy from director Shinsuke Sato, Golden Kamuy is based on Satoru Noda’s award-winning Seinen manga out of Weekly Young Jump which ran from 2014 to last year. The story, set in the aftermath of the Russo-Japanese War, sees Yamazaki in the role of Sugimoto, a celebrated Imperial war hero who, along with an indigenous Ainu hunter named Asirpa, finds himself at the center of a mystery involving a band of prison escapees beholden […]
KINGDOM 2: FAR AND AWAY Review: Shinsuke Sato’s Epic Sequel Ignites The Franchise Spark
Shinsuke Sato’s 2019 manga adaptation, Kingdom dared us to dream. His hit sequel, Kingdom 2: Far And Away, demanded we saw our dreams through… Shin (Kento Yamazaki) takes the mantle as he leads a regiment of makeshift soldiers accomodating the Qin forces of King Eisei (Ryo Yoshizawa) and battlefield General Hyoko (Etsushi Toyokawa) to the Daikan Plains in response to the advancing neighboring forces of Wei. Along the way, Shin finds himself reuniting with Bihei (Amane Okayama) and elder brother Bitou (Takahiro Miura) before the regiment’s arrival to the plains where the men must group into units of five to be formidable. Joined by the unassuming Takukei (Takayuki Hamatsu) and the terse but deadly Kyoukai (Nana Seino), Shin and the brothers form a quintet and charge into battle with the regiment under the leadership of Commander Bakukoshin (Kiyohiko Shibukawa). The attack leads to the first of multiple battles with Wei […]