GOLDEN KAMUY: ATTACK ON ABASHIRI PRISON Delivers A Riotous Sequel Teaser
The feature sequel opens in Spring 2026!
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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!
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The film is directed by “Kagegurui” and “Tokyo Revengers” director Tsutomu Hanabusa.
SCARLET Teaser Revealed For Mamoru Hosoda’s Latest Coming In Winter 2025!
Sony will shepherd the film’s release outside of Japan in December.
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, […]
Takashi Yamazaki Returning To Direct More GODZILLA!
“Production of a new Godzilla film by writer, director, and VFX supervisor Takashi Yamazaki has been greenlit” according to a new press announcement last Friday. Production details are underwraps, while news on the new movie comes following the latest push for this weekend’s re-release of Yamazaki’s Godzilla: Minus One, in select theaters, as announced on Thursday, marking the kaiju IP’s 70th anniversary. Godzilla: Minus One proved to be the highest-grossing Japanese film in U.S. box office history, and the #3 top-grossing foreign film in U.S. Box Office History, earning more than $115 million at the global box office. The film won the Oscar for Best Visual Effects, making Godzilla: Minus One the first film in Godzilla’s franchise history to be recognized by the Academy with a nomination or win. The film also exists in a refurbished black-and-white edition also known as Godzilla: Minus One/Minus Color. Check out the announcement videos […]
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 […]
MUROI SHINJI: ‘The Odoru Legend Continues’ In The Newest Trailer For The Upcoming Back-To-Back Crime Epic
1997 Fuji TV cop drama, Bayside Shakedown, was precisely the spark that lit the flame for its success over the years, spawning mutiple TV and film projects. This especially goes for actor and franchise fixture Toshiro Yanagiba who now returns for a brand new pair of back-to-back legacy entries into the “Bayside Shakedowniverse”. Thus, the latest official trailer is online courtesy of Toho for Muroi Shinji: The Undefeated, which on October 11, followed by Muroi Shinji: Stay Alive, on November 15. The films are written by Ryoichi Kimizuka, and directed by Katsuyuki Motohiro, both who have been in-and-out with the Bayside Shakedown franchise since its roots on the small screen. The new films culminate around Shinji’s retirement as Tokyo police superintendent as he returns to his home town to support the families of victims of crimes. When a mysterious young girl appears and the body of a murder victim surfaces, […]
DOCTOR-X: THE MOVIE Intensely Pressure-Tests Ryoko Yonekura In The First Teaser!
Filmmaker and TV veteran Naomi Tamura (Seven Secretaries: The Movie) is back again to advance another in her past TV Asahi stakes: Doctor-X: The Movie. Actress Ryoko Yonekura reprises her role from the seven-season medical drama for which Tamura has helped shepherd since its 2012 debut. Yonekura stars in the title role as a freelance surgeon with a mysterious past whose methods have garnered her a reputation as a surgeon who never fails, taking on procedures where other surgeons wouldn’t dare. Her methods are cheered and jeered by both colleagues and members of the medical elite who question her methods, topped by issues pertinent to her mysterious past. According to the logline from Toho, that history may well come into the light as the heroic protagonist herself continues her exploits in the newest feature, from a script by fellow “Doctor-X” series cohort Miho Nakazono. The film opens on December 6. […]
IF TOKUGAWA IEYASU BECAME PRIME MINISTER Trailer: When An AI Takeover Tops Pandemic Calamity
Director Hideki Takeuchi is two-for-two this week with titles on our radar. For this, we now turn to the upcoming oddball sci-fi antics in If Tokugawa Ieyasu Became Prime Minister. The film stars Kakegurui and Godzilla Minus One actress Minami Hamabe, and penned by Yuichi Tokunaga whose script is based on Akihito Manabe’s 2021 novel. Set in 2020 at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, Hamabe plays an on-site reporter covering Japan’s federal top-down revamp using holographic AI supplements bringing back Sengoku-era warlords. In the course of her work, she discovers something happening in the background of Japan’s new government. Hamabe is joined by Revolver Lily and The Yin Yang Master star Mansai Nomura who stars in the title role of Tokugawa Ieyasu. Toho will release the movie in theaters on July 26. Watch the trailer!
LAST MILE Trailer: TBS Worlds Collide In The New Ticking Timebomb Thriller
TBS has world sales rights on Last Mile, an explosive new thriller slated for an August 23 release in Japan. The movie reteams director Ayuko Tsukahara and screener Akiko Nogi following their previous work on TBS shows, forensic drama “Unnatural,” and detective serial “MIU404”. On the day before the Black Friday sale, a box delivered by a global e-commerce company, explodes. The box was sent from one of the biggest warehouses, which has the three-quarter logistic shares around Tokyo. It leads a series of mysterious bombings that terrorize whole of Japan. Elena Funado, who was just appointed as a new director of the warehouse, is forced to control this unprecedented situation with a line manager, Ko Nashimoto. Who planted the bombs? For what purpose? How many bombs are left? – And where are they now? In this modern society, distribution service becomes critical need for our lives and that cannot […]
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 […]
LOVE YOU AS THE WORLD ENDS: THE MOVIE Teaser Reveals An Explosive Final Chapter To Ryoma Takeuchi’s Harrowing Quest
Fans of the hit survival drama series Love You As The World Ends may now ready themselves as Toho preps its theatrical finale to the hit show, coming January 26. Series regulars Ryoma Takeuchi (Akira And Akira) and Ayami Nakajo (Tokyo MER: Mobile Emergency Room – The Movie) reprise their roles joining a cast of new and returning faces from the hit show that firstly launched in 2021 via NTV and continued onward through Hulu Japan and Netflix Japan. Shintaro Sugawara, who shepherded the first two seasons of the four-part drama, directs the feature-length final entry which follows up on the story of Hibiki (Takeuchi) and Kurumi (Nakajo) as they fight desperately to survive the post-apocalyptic wasteland now riddled with zombies known as Golems. As the plot hints, the film’s story take its cues on some of the shocking twists of season two and will focus on Hibiki’s mission to […]
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 […]
HARD DAYS Trailer: Let The Mudslinging And Fireworks Begin!
Still on deck for this year is crime thriller Hard Days, starring Junichi Okada and Go Ayano for its release on May 19. The official trailer is up for the flick which comes nearly a decade after Kim Sung-hoon’s original flick and remakes that followed thereafter. On the night of December 29, Detective Yuji Kudo drives his car to see his mother, who is hospitalized with a serious health condition. He receives a phone call from the station police chief asking about his involvement in the creation of a slush fund. He also learns that his mother has passed away. Yuji then accidentally hits a man with his car and that man dies. At the hospital, Yuji tries to cover up the death of the man he hit with his car by placing his dead body into his mother’s casket. At that time, he receives a text message from Police […]
TOUKEN RANBU THE MOVIE: DAWN Lands Official Trailer For Saiji Yakumo’s Sword Fantasy Sequel
The official trailer is now online for Touken Ranbu The Movie: Dawn, along with a new poster all of which are viewable at the bottom. The film is director Saiji Yakumo’s sequel to his period sword-clashing 2019 adaptation of DMM Games’ collectible card game. The first film subtitled Touken Ranbu The Movie: Succession by its disc release in Japan and penned by Yasuko Kobayashi (Masked Rider Den-O The Movie Final Countdown), centered on eight great bishonen – swords who transform into mystical, handsome warriors who must travel back in time to affirm Lord Nobunaga Oda’s death in 1852 and realign the course of history once and for all. Yakumo directs the sequel from a script by Hideyuki Kobashi and Jin Haganeya which centers around the hunt for a mythological demon on Oe Mountain. Hiroki Suzuki, Yoshihiko Aramaki, Masanari Wada, and Fuma Sadamoto reprise their roles from the first film for […]
Shinsuke Sato’s KINGDOM 3 Rings In The New Year With The First Official Teaser!
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 […]
HARD DAYS Featurette Reveals Junichi Okada And Go Ayano On Set Of ‘A Hard Day’ Remake
You can currently look up director Michihito Fujii’s most recent crime drama, A Family (locally known as Yakuza And The Family) on Netflix in the U.S. to get a feel of his directorial style if you haven’t seen any of his previous work. Up next to release is his newest drama, Village, while the latest updates are online for Hard Days, which is due for May 19, 2023 release from Toho. The film is based on the 2014 crime thriller, A Hard Day, from Kim Sung-hoon who went on to direct titles like Tunnel and Netflix’s “Kingdom”. Taking the reins for the remake is a cast that lists Junichi Okada (The Fable, Hell Dogs) and Go Ayano (A Family, Homunculus), in a retelling of a corrupt cop whose misdeeds catch up with him after a fatal accident. You’re more than welcome to parse through any of the current digital services […]
TOUGEN RANBU THE MOVIE: REIMEI (DAWN) Teaser Sets Up Saiji Yakumo’s Explosive Sequel
Saiji Yakumo’s latest efforts now turn toward Tougen Ranbu The Movie: Reimei (Dawn), the sequel to his period sword-clashing 2019 adaptation of DMM Games’ collectible card game. The primary cast from the first film is all returning to the new installment from a script this time by Hideyuki Kobashi and Jin Haganeya, and with a launch teaser online as of about a week ago to help set the mood. The first film, subtitled Tougen Ranbu The Movie: Succession by its disc release in Japan and penned by Yasuko Kobayashi (Masked Rider Den-o The Movie Final Countdown), centered on eight great bishonen – swords who transform into mystical, handsome warriors who must travel back in time to affirm Lord Nobunaga Oda’s death in 1852 and realign the course of history once and for all. The sequel, according to ANN’s Rafael Antonio Pineda “will take place in Kyoto during the Heian era, […]