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Live-Action Kamen no Ninja Akakage Series Reveals 4 Cast Members

The official X/Twitter account for the live-action series of Mitsuteru Yokoyama's Kamen no Ninja Akakage manga revealed more cast members for the series on Friday.

The cast members, including the previously announced Taiki Satō, are:

• Taiki Satō as Akakage (upper left in image above)
• Keito Kimura as Aokage (upper right)
• Ryō Katō as Shirokage (lower left)
• Shūgo Oshinari as Kazumasu Takigawa (bottom center)
• Tokio Emoto as Hideyoshi Hashiba (lower right)

Acclaimed genre director Takashi Miike (Ichi the Killer, Crows Zero, Lesson of the Evil) is serving as the chief director. Yūsuke Watanabe (Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods, live-action Gantz, The Fable) is writing the scripts. The new series will premiere on October 26, and it is the second collaboration between TV Asahi and Toei, after spring 2024's With You I Bloom: The Shinsengumi Youth Chronicle. The staff promises the latest visual effects in a historical epic with grand-scale monster battles.

Yokoyama serialized the original manga from 1966 to 1967 in Shogakukan's Weekly Shonen Sunday magazine. The manga previously inspired an earlier live-action tokusatsu (special-effects) period drama in 1967, a 1987-1988 anime series, and a 2001 live-action film (released by Media Blasters under the name Red Shadow: Akakage).

Sources: Kamen no Ninja Akakage live-action series' X/Twitter account, Comic Natalie