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Actor Denden Stars in His Own Flash Anime
posted on by Karen Ressler
Veteran actor Denden (Maestro!) recorded lines for a series of anime shorts starring himself on Monday. The anime series is a spinoff of the upcoming film Gokudō Daisensō (Yakuza Apocalypse), and will be titled Gokudō Sakaba Denden ~Gokudō Daisensō Gaiden~ (Yakuza Bar-Room Denden ~Yakuza Apocalypse Side-Story~).
As in the film, Denden will play the boss of a bar, but with a snail motif. The actor's stage name, in part, comes from dendenmushi, which means "snail."
This will be the 65-year-old actor's first voice-acting role.
Flash animation studio DLE Inc. (Glass no Kamen Desu ga, Haiyoru! Nyaru-Ani) is handling the animation and GyaO! will handle streaming.
Gokudō Daisensō will open in Japan on June 20. Takashi Miike (Ichi the Killer, Crows Zero) is directing the film.
Source: Cinema Today
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