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Live-Action Kamen no Ninja Akakage Series' Trailer Previews Opening Song

The official X/Twitter account for the live-action series of Mitsuteru Yokoyama's Kamen no Ninja Akakage manga began streaming a new promotional trailer for the series on Friday. The video, narrated by voice actor Junichi Suwabe, announces and previews the series' opening theme song "Swish Dat" by Psychic Fever.

◤ Trailer Drop! ◢#MaskedNinjaAkakage

📅 Premieres Sunday, October 26



From the shadows, they shaped history —

the secret ninjas who served Oda Nobunaga.

Now, an untold chapter of the Sengoku era ignites 🔥⚔️



✅ Add to your TVer favorites now: https://t.co/GsLSLfNcwe… pic.twitter.com/Vn7ncMzfs7

— 仮面の忍者 赤影 (@akakage_tvasahi) October 17, 2025

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
• Keito Kimura as Aokage
• Ryō Katō as Shirokage
• Shūgo Oshinari as Kazumasu Takigawa
• Tokio Emoto as Hideyoshi Hashiba

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.

Wolf Howl Harmony from Exile Tribe is performing the ending theme song "Marmalade." 

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's X/Twitter account, Comic Natalie