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Takashi Miike Directs Anime of Onimusha Game Series
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Anime from Toshirō Mifune as model for Miyamoto Musashi
The Onimusha game franchise is getting an anime adaptation that will stream on Netflix.
Famed director Shikizakura) is directing the series.
The series will use the late prolific actor Toshirō Mifune (Rashomon, Seven Samurai) as a model for the character Miyamoto Musashi.
CAPCOM debuted the Onimusha Sengoku-era survival action game series in 2001. The games in the series retell stories from the Sengoku era but with supernatural elements. The latest game in the series, a remaster of Onimusha: Warlords, released in January 2019.
The game series previously inspired the PlayStation 2 video game and also adds extra animated scenes.
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