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Live-Action Kamen no Ninja Akakage Series Unveils More Cast, Ending Song
posted on by Anita Tai
The official website for the live-action series of Mitsuteru Yokoyama's Kamen no Ninja Akakage manga announced on Wednesday that Hideyuki Kasahara (live-action The Disastrous Life of Saiki K.) has joined the cast as the mysterious merchant Oribe Tamon and that Wolf Howl Harmony from Exile Tribe is performing the ending theme song "Marmalade." It also presented a new key visual.
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.
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)
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: Comic Natalie, Kamen no Ninja Akakage's website
