Overview

• Netflix confirmed the six-episode series will stream globally on November 13.
• The teaser introduces a Meiji-period adaptation of Shogo Imamura’s Ikusagami in which 292 warriors start at Kyoto’s Tenryuji Temple and race for Tokyo by stealing wooden tags to claim a ¥100 billion prize.
• The first two episodes will screen at the 30th Busan International Film Festival on September 18 ahead of the platform launch.
• Okada headlines and shapes the action behind the scenes as producer and action planner, with large-scale sequences shot over multiple days using more than 1,000 cast and crew and nearly 300 unique costumes.
• Newly announced cast members include Gaku Hamada, Taiiku Okazaki, Arata Iura, Tetsushi Tanaka, and Ayumu Nakajima, joining an ensemble that features Kaya Kiyohara, Masahiro Higashide, Shota Sometani, and Kazunari Ninomiya.