MUROMACHI OUTSIDERS: Well Go Acquires Yu Irie’s Latest Samurai Uprising Actioner For 2025 Release
Great news is abound for anyone fond of jidaigeki films and Japanese cinema in whole. That at certainly goes for director Yu Irie whose latest, Muromachi Outsiders, has just been snapped by Well Go USA for North America. Muromachi Outsiders is Irie, and based on the 2016 Shincho Bunko series of novels from multi-award winning author, Ryosuke Kakine. The cast is led by actor Yo Oizumi in his first action role, here as the savvy, vagrant leader of an uprising against the violent and corrupt powers that be in 15th century Kyoto. The film also stars “Naniwa Danshi” member Kento Nagao, and actors Akira Emoto, Wakana Matsumoto, and Shinichi Tsutsumi, along with Yuya Endo, Tomoya Maeno, Ami 201, Hannya, and Rina Takeda, along with Shingo Mizusawa, Kazuki Kitamura, Okito Serizawa, and more. News of the acquisition comes just after Irie’s latest bit of ceremony at the Toyko International Film Festival where […]
