TOHO Cinema began airing on Wednesday a new teaser for Kingdom: Taishogun no Kikan (Return of the General), the live-action Fourth Kingdom film based on the manga by Yasuhisa Hara, and revealed that the film will open on July 12.
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Shinsuke Satō directed the new film again.
The film covers the Shi Ka (Tu Ha) arc of the manga and the Battle of the Bayou—the first time Shin (Xin) and Ō Ki (Wang Qi) stood together on the battlefield to resist an invasion by invaders. Mighty Chō (Zhao) from the north. Anne (Anne Watanabe) returns as key character Shi Ka (Zi Xia). Other cast members include Kataoka Ainosuke VI as Fuu Ki (Feng Ji), Kōji Yamamoto as Chō Sō (Zhao Zhuang), Yuki Yamada as Man Goku (Wan Ji), Eri Murakawa as You Li (Yū Ri) and Hinako Sakurai as Dong Mei (Tō Bi).
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The third film opened in Japan on July 28 and ranked No. 1 in its opening weekend. The film had the best opening weekend out of all three Kingdom films.
Kento Yamazaki, Ryō Yoshizawa, Takao Osawa and Kanna Hashimoto all reprise their respective characters of Shin (Xin), Yin Zheng (Yin Zheng), Ō Ki (Wang Qi) and Ka Ryō Ten (He Liao Diao ), respectively from the previous two films. Nana Seino, Hiroshi Tamaki and Kōichi Satō from the second film also reprise their respective characters Kyо̄ Kai, Sho Hei Kun (Lord Changping) and Ryo Fui (Lu Buwei).
Shinsuke Satō (live-action Gantz, Death Note Light up the NEW world, Bleach) returns as director. Hara and Tsutomu Kuroiwa (One Piece Film Gold, Black Butler live-action, GANTZ:O) return to write the script.
The first film opened in Japan in April 2019 and eventually earned a cumulative total of 5.73 billion yen (about $53.2 million). Funimation screened the film at Anime Expo in July 2019 and screened it in theaters in the United States and Canada in August 2019. The second film Kingdom II: Harukanaru Daichi e (To Distant Lands) opened in Japan in July 2022 and won the revenue. 5.16 billion yen (about 37.8 million USD), becoming the highest-earning Japanese live-action film in Japan in 2022.
The record-setting manga debuted in Shueisha’s Weekly Young Jump magazine in 2006.
The fifth anime series will premiere on NHK General on January 6 at 24:00 JST (actually January 7 at 12:00 midnight JST).
Source: TOHO Cinema YouTube channel, Mantan Web