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Live-Action Gintama 2 Film's Ads Preview back number's Theme Song
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The official website for Tomokazu Sugita.
The film opens in Japan on August 17. The story will cover both the "Shinsengumi Crisis" and the "Shogun Reception" arcs, the latter of which features the introduction of the Shogun.
The film stars (from left to right in top row in picture below): Takayuki Yamada is returning for the role.
Other cast include:
returning as Gengai Hiraga
as Otose
otaku split personality "Tosshi"
as Isao Kondou
as Sougo Okita
as Shinsuke Takasugi
Haruma Miura as Kamotaro Ito
Masataka Kubota as Bansai Kawakami
Shinichi Tsutsumi as Katakuriko Matsudaira
Ryo Katsuji as the Shogun
Natsuna Watanabe as Ayame Sarutobi
returning, but in a different role. Sato previously played the character Takechi Henpeita in the first film.
An accompanying three-episode live-action show titled Gintama 2: Yo ni mo Kimyō na Gintama-chan will premiere on August 18 on Docomo's reprise his role as Taizō Hasegawa (Madao) for the show.
KinKi Kids member Tsuyoshi Dōmoto, will perform the show's theme song "one more purple funk… -Kōmei katana-."
The first film opened in Japan last July, and it earned 980 million yen (US$8.9 million) in its first four days. The film also inspired a live-action net show that debuted on Docomo's dTV streaming service one day after the film's opening. released the first film on DVD, Blu-ray Disc and DVD combo pack, and Digital HD on March 6.
Sources: Gintama film's website, Comic Natalie
