Arashi member plays Shinsengumi founder Matsudaira Katamori in show debuting on March 26
The official website for the live-action
adaptation
of
Eiji Hashimoto
and
Shinya Umemura
‘s
Chiruran: Shinsengumi Requiem
(
Chiruran: Shinsengumi Chinkon-ka
) manga announced in a short character video on Wednesday that Arashi idol group member
Jun Matsumoto
(live-action
Boys Over Flowers
,
Gokusen
, What Will You Do, Ieyasu?
) is joining the series’ cast as Matsudaira Katamori. Matsudaira was the real-life
daimyō
lord of Aizu who assembled master-less samurai together to found
The Shinsen-gumi
.
Image via
Chiruran: Shinsegumi Requiem live-action series’ website
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Image via
Comic Natalie
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The adaptation will premiere with two “Edo Seishun-hen” (Coming of Age in Edo Arc) episodes airing as specials on Japan’s
TBS
channel on March 26 and 27. The adaptation will then continue the story with the “Kyōto Kessen-hen” (Battle in Kyoto Arc) streaming as a weekly series every Friday on the
U-NEXT
service.
The previously announced cast members include (historical Japanese names listed here in traditional family-name-first order):
Yūki Yamada
as Hijikata Toshizō
Aoi Nakamura
as Yamanami Keisuke
Kanata Hosoda
as Okita Sōji
Shūhei Uesugi
as Nagakura Shinpachi
Akira Emoto
as Nagakura Shinpachi in old age
Kisetsu Fujiwara
as Saito Hajime
Yōsuke Sugino
as Abiru Eisaburō
Shūntaro Yanagi as Tōdō Heisuke
Hihio Iwanaga as Inoue Genzaburō
Gō Ayano
as Serizawa Kamo
Eita Okuno
as Niimi Nishiki
Mitsuomi Takahashi
as Hirayama Gorō
Nobuaki Kaneko
as Sasaki Tadasaburō
Masanobu Andō
as Tanaka Shinbei
Yūki Sakurai
as Oume
Kento Nakajima
as Okada Izō
Meru Nukumi
as Makoto Ichikawa
Filming began this past April throughout Japan, particularly in Kyoto, Shiga, Shizuoka, and Chiba Prefectures.
Akira Morii
(
Yu Yu Hakusho
,
Alice in Borderland
) of
THE SEVEN
company is producing the project.
Kazutaka Watanabe
(live-action
Thus Spoke Rohan Kishibe
,
Only Yesterday
) is directing off scripts by
Masaaki Sakai
(live-action
Rasen no Meikyū
,
Informa
).
Kensuke Sonomura
(
The Boy and The Beast
,
GANTZ:O
) is directing the action sequences, and
THE SEVEN
‘s Tomofumi Akahane is producing the visual effects.
Yūya Maeda
(
JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable
,
Yo-kai Watch: Sora Tobu Kujira to Double Sekai no Daibōken da Nyan!
) is credited for character designs.
THE SEVEN
‘s
Kiri Ishida
is supervising post-production.
Yoshiaki Dewa
(
Kino’s Journey – The Beautiful World
,
Hell’s Paradise
) is composing the music.
Mangamo
is releasing the manga in English digitally under the title
The Shinsen-gumi
, and it describes the manga:
The Shinsen-gumi
were a special police force in Japan in the 19th century. Tasked originally with protecting the Shogunate, they eventually dedicated themselves to restoring order in Kyoto. Hijikata Toshizo is responsible for the death of
The Shinsen-gumi
, but he was once one of them. This is his story.
Umemura provided the story, and Hashimoto illustrated the manga. The duo
launched
the series in the inaugural issue of
Tokuma Shoten
‘s
Monthly Comic Zenon
magazine in 2010. The manga
began
its final arc with the 32nd volume on January 20, 2022, and
ended
in April 2023.
The manga
inspired
a stage play adaptation that ran in April 2017.
Umemura and Hashimoto launched a comedy spinoff manga titled
Chiruran Nibun no Ichi
in
Monthly Comic Zenon
in May 2016. The spinoff manga
received
an anime series of shorts that premiered in January 2017.
Crunchyroll
streamed
the series under the title
Chiruran 1/2
as it aired.
Sources:
Chiruran
live-action series’
website
(
link 2
),
Comic Natalie
