Member whitesnake Posted October 31, 2018 Member Share Posted October 31, 2018 The Nitroplus and DMM Games' Touken Ranbu (Wild Dance of Swords) franchise is being made into a live action movie set for release in Japan on January 18, 2019. It began as a "free-to-play collectible card browser video game" that was released in Japan on January 14, 2015, and has been turned into three anime series and a series of stage plays and musicals. "The Token Ranbu Online 'sword personification training game' takes famous swords from Japanese history and interprets them as bishonen. Nitroplus designed the characters and scenario." (from https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2018-10-31/live-action-touken-ranbu-film-reveals-more-cast-january-opening/.138858) The game "quickly became very popular in Japan, particularly with young women and had over 1.5 million registered players by 2016. The game has been credited with accelerating the Japanese cultural trend of 'Katana women'... women who are interested in, and pose with historical Japanese swords." (from Wikipedia) IMDB plot for the live action movie - "A sage travels to the past and collects a set of legendary swords which he brings to life as a gang of talented but dysfunctional young men, to fight a battle against evil." The IMDB movie website is https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8493238/ The director of the live action movie is Yakumo Saiji (My Pretend Girlfriend). The cast includes Iwanaga Hiroaki (Uchu Sentai Kyuranger vs. Space Squad video), Hirose Tomoki (Megami Sama), Wada Masanari, Yamamoto Koji (Kagemusha Tokugawa Ieyasu TV movie), Kitamura Ryo (Tsumasaki no uchu), Suzuki Hiroki (Ike! Danshi koukou engekibu), Shiina Taizo (Suspicion TV movie). The cast of Stage: Touken Ranbu reprise their roles in the movie. The official Japanese movie website is http://touken-movie2019.jp/ movie poster - Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member whitesnake Posted November 20, 2018 Author Member Share Posted November 20, 2018 Here's the first teaser for the Japanese movie, Touken Ranbu (Eiga: Token ranbu), from Toho. It almost looks like a real action samurai film, except for all the pretty boys. Teaser news from https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2018-11-19/live-action-touken-ranbu-film-1st-teaser-highlights-characters/.139730 Teaser - Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member whitesnake Posted December 21, 2018 Author Member Share Posted December 21, 2018 The official website for Touken Ranbu movie started streaming the trailer. "The film's story centers on the historical Honno-ji incident, where infamous historical warlord Oda Nobunaga met his end after the betrayal of his general Akechi Mitsuhide. With the Touken Danshi's enemies seeking to change history by allowing Nobunaga to live, the characters must ensure that Nobunaga dies, even if there are some among them that were once swords of Nobunaga." From https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2018-12-19/live-action-touken-ranbu-film-trailer-previews-theme-song/.141061 Trailer - Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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