Gintama" announced the second cast of the live-action movie version! Shinpachi is played by Masaki Sugata, Kagura by Kanna Hashimoto, Katsura by Masaki Okada, Hijikata by Yuya Yagira, etc.

The second cast of the live-action film version of "Gintama" has been unveiled.

Gintama" will be made into a live-action movie!  Shun Oguri plays Gintoki Sakata, Yuichi Fukuda of "Yusha Yoshihiko" fame directs and writes the script.



Gintama" is a popular manga series by Hideaki Sorachi that has been serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump since 2004. Set in the parallel world of Edo (Tokyo), the manga is a painful entertainment with heartwarming gags, spectacular action, and deep humanity, and has sold more than 50 million copies.


The recent announcement that a live-action film adaptation and that Shun Oguri will play the main character, Gintoki Sakata, has taken over real-time searches and trending words on the Internet. Now, the second main cast has been revealed. Shinpachi Shimura, who works at Gintoki's "Bankotsuya," will be played by Masaki Sugata, and Kagura, a survivor of the Yato tribe, will be played by Kanna Hashimoto, who will dye her own hair orange like in the original.

Shinpachi's older sister Tae is played by Masami Nagasawa, Gintoki's childhood friend and former ally Kotaro Katsura is played by Masaki Okada, the owner of the Karakurido, Gentai Hiraga is played by Tsuyoshi Muro, the director of the Shin-Sen-Gumi Isao Kondo is played by Kankuro Nakamura, the most popular man in the Shin-Sen-Gumi, Jushiro Hijikata is played by Yuya Yagira, and the sleaze Sogo Okita is played by Ryo Yoshizawa.

The casting of Nakamura Kankuro was based on a strong recommendation from Oguri Shun, who said, "When I thought of an actor who could play both the second and third roles, and who no one else could come up with, but whom everyone could agree on, I could think of no one but Nakamura Kankuro.

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