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.
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.
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.
Kingdom: The Flame Of Destiny is streaming on Netflix.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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…
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 official Japan account for Netflix is already hyping up live-tweet viewing parties for fans of the hit series, Alice In Borderland, which you’re totally invited to check out on your own terms, but do it quick. Season two is en route for later this month and the official trailer is finally here to show us all that’s in store for the seemingly neverending game of death.
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If you take away nothing else from the work of Bleach helmer Shinsuke Sato, take the fact that he nearly never disappoints when it comes to storytelling. His latest work, Alice in Borderland, looks to continue that legacy heading toward its December 10 stream date at 3:00 a.m. EST on Netflix, and we finally have an official trailer to show for it.
Taking his cues from Robert A. Heinlen’s 1957 novel of the same name, Fortuna’s Eye helmer Takahiro Miki’s got his sights set on some alluring cerebral sci-fi as teased in the latest footage for next year’s The Door Into Summer. Starring Kento Yamazaki from a script by Time Traveler: The Girl Who Leapt Through Time scribe Tomoe Kanno, Toho and Aniplex are teaming up for the film’s Japan release in February.
Courtesy of the Fantasia International Film Festival
The newest trailer is online for Yuji Shimomura’s new film, Crazy Samurai Musashi, starring the one and only Tak Sakaguchi and Kento Yamazaki. For both actors, the film will also mark their latest return to Fantasia Festival next month since appearing in last year’s striking premiere of Shinsuke Sato’s riveting hit manga adaptation, Kingdom.
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