Netflix has announced a premiere date for their new Onimusha anime series, based on the cult classic video games of the same name.
The new Onimusha anime series is premiering on November 2nd exclusively via Netflix. As covered in our previous report, the series is directed by Takashi Miike.
Here’s the full main cast:
- Akio Otsuka as Musashi Miyamoto
- Toshihiko Seki as Kojiro Sasaki
- Hochu Otsuka as Kensuke Matsui
- Daiki Yamashita as Sahei
- Subaru Kimura as Goro-Maru
- Katsuyuki Konishi as Heikuro
- Kazuyuki Okitsu as Kaizen
- Makoto Furukawa as Gensai
- Aya Yamane as Sayo
- Ryohei Kimura as Iemon
Here’s the official synopsis on the show, plus a new trailer:
Capcom’s “Onimusha,” the landmark survival action video game series set in Japan’s feudal Sengoku period, is being adapted into an anime series that will start streaming from Thursday, November 2, only on Netflix. Directed by Takashi Miike, this ambitious series will focus on Miyamoto Musashi, who is modeled after Toshiro Mifune, the Japanese film icon known around the globe. This is the beginning of an intense series full of realistic action in which Musashi’s blade slices through evil as he traverses a land plagued by poverty.