Main Characters’ Fate Collide in Third Kingdom Live-Action Film Full Trailer
The official website for the forthcoming third live-action film adaptation of Yasuhisa Hara’s historical adventure manga Kingdom, entitled Kingdom: Unmei no Honoo (The Flame of Fate), has posted a 75-second full trailer. Watch the new clip as the fates of the main characters collide!
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75-second trailer:
30-second trailer:
Also, it is announced that Anne (Oei in Miss Hokusai, Yuko Ichihara in the xxxHolic TV drama) is cast as Zhi Xia, a black market merchant who was deeply involved in the past of Ying Zheng, played by Ryo Yoshizawa. She is a woman with a sense of justice and motherhood who is the only one who tries to help Ying Zheng, the future king. She undertakes a dangerous mission to help him escape from Zhao to Qin.
◤ その人は光をくれた― ◥
紫夏＜しか＞役
#杏 さんに決定⚔️正義感と母性溢れる美しき女性・紫夏????
趙国に囚われた未来の秦国王となる若き嬴政を
秦国へ脱出させる危険な仕事を引き受ける。
闇商人・紫夏の運命はいかに…#キングダム 運命の炎#いま運命が動き始める pic.twitter.com/UtCGDaRnLy— 映画『キングダム 運命の炎』公式アカウント (@kingdomthemovie) March 15, 2023
Kingdom, the first film directed by Shinsuke Sato (GANTZ, Bleach live-action films), was released in Japan on April 19, 2019, then earned 5.73 billion yen (42.26 million USD) from its total domestic run. Then Kingdom 2 Harukanaru Daichi e (To the Land of Faraway), the second film followed on July 15, 2022, then earned 5.12 billion yen (37.76 million USD). Both films became the top-grossing Japanese film of the year, and the combined box office gross of the two films exceeded 10 billion yen (73.75 million USD).
The third film, Kingdom: Unmei no Honoo, is set to be released in Japan on July 28, 2023. Its story centers on the “Battle of Bayou” arc, where the protagonist Li Xin and Wang Qi stand on the same battlefield for the first time to fight off an invasion by Zhao, and the “Escape from Zhao” arc, which tells Ying Zheng’s unknown past. All of the seven main cast members – Kento Yamazaki (Li Xin), Ryo Yoshizawa (Ying Zheng), Kanna Hashimoto (He Liao Diao), Nana Seino (Qiang Lei), Hiroshi Tamaki (Changwen Jun), Koichi Sato (Lü Buwei), and Takao Osawa (Wang Qi ) – return.
Teaser visual:
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Source: “Kingdom” live-action film official website / Twitter
(c) Yasuhisa Hara/Shueihsa (c)2019 Movie “Kingdom” Production Committee
(c) Yasuhisa Hara/Shueihsa (c)2022 Movie “Kingdom” Production Committee
