Overview
- The new preview sets up a 19th-century contest where 292 warriors gather at Kyoto’s Tenryu-ji Temple, steal wooden tags, and race to Tokyo for a ¥100 billion prize.
- Junichi Okada stars as Shujiro Saga and also serves as producer and action choreographer.
- Director Michihito Fujii helms the entire series, reuniting with Okada following their collaboration on Hard Days.
- Reporting highlights practical, large-scale melee sequences with nearly 300 costumed performers and a production involving over 1,000 cast and crew, drawing strong early reactions after Busan screenings.
- The series adapts Shogo Imamura’s Ikusagami and places a fictional tournament against the real Meiji-era upheaval that followed the samurai’s decline.