Before you ask: Yes, Elizabeth appears, and yes she is amazing.
On Thursday, Warner Brothers started streaming five new clips from the live-action Gintama flick. Each short teaser focuses on a different part of the film.
Meiyu (Sworn Friends)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD7J2_-pGlI
TV Spot Elizabeth
TV Spot: Summer Festival
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xvtzMcDEZo
TV Spot: Nationwide
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uJsi_uSwYo
TV Spot: World and Setting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOgWMv9Rhys
Gintama opens in Japanese theaters on July 14. The film will open in Australian and New Zealand theaters afterwards.
Gintoki
The Gintama film is based on Hideaki Sorachi’s manga of the same name. The feature will be helmed by Yūichi Fukuda (Hentai Kamen), who is also writing the script.
The confirmed cast includes:
- Gintoki Sakata: Shun Oguri
- Shinpachi Shimura: Masaki Suda
- Kagura: Kanna Hashimoto
- Tae Shimura: Masami Nagasawa
- Kotaro Katsura: Masaki Okada
- Gengai Hiraga: Tsuyoshi Muro
- Toshiro Hijikata: Yuuya Yagira
- Sougo Okita: Ryo Yoshizawa
- Isao Kondo: Kankurō Nakamura VI
- Nizō Okada: Hirofumi Arai
- Henpeita Takechi: Jiro Sato
- Matako Kijima: Nanao
- Tetsuya Murata: Ken Yasuda
- Tetsuko Murata: Akari Hayami
- Shinsuke Takasugi: Tsuyoshi Domoto
Kagura
The Gintama manga kicked off in the pages of Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump on December 8, 2003. The ongoing title currently spans 65 collected volumes. Several anime adaptations were produced, including four TV series, five OVAs, and three films.
Crunchyroll currently holds the domestic rights to the first Gintama anime, which they plan to offer on Blu-Ray. Viz Media currently holds the license for the Gintama manga.
A new season of Gintama premiered on January 9. Earlier this month, CineAsia Oz started streaming a subtitled version of a previous promo. You can check it out below:
