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The official Twitter account for the live-action movies of Yasuhisa Hara‘s Kingdom manga introduced on Thursday two forged members for Kingdom: Unmei no Honō (Flames of Future), the franchise‘s third live-action film.

The newly introduced forged consists of:

The movie will open on July 28.

The movie covers the manga’s Shi Ka (Zi Xia) arc and the Battle of Bayou — the primary time Shin (Xin) and Ō Ki (Wang Qi) stood on the battlefield collectively, to fend off the invasion by the mighty Chō (Zhao) from the north. Anne (Anne Watanabe) joins the forged because the pivotal character Shi Ka (Zi Xia). Different new forged members embody Kataoka Ainosuke VI as Fuu Ki (Feng Ji), Kōji Yamamoto as Chō Sō (Zhao Zhuang), and Yuki Yamada as Man Goku (Wan Ji).

Kento Yamazaki, Ryō Yoshizawa, Takao Osawa, and Kanna Hashimoto all reprise their respective characters Shin (Xin), Ei Sei (Yin Zheng), Ō Ki (Wang Qi), and Ka Ryō Ten (He Liao Diao), respectively from the 2 earlier movies. Nana Seino, Hiroshi Tamaki, and Kōichi Satō from the second movie additionally reprise their respective characters Kyо̄ Kai, Sho Hei Kun (Lord Changping), and Ryo Fui (Lu Buwei).

Shinsuke Satō (live-action Gantz, Death Note Light up the NEW world, Bleach) returns as director. Hara and Tsutomu Kuroiwa (One Piece Film Gold, live-action Black Butler, GANTZ:O) return to put in writing the script.

The primary movie opened in Japan in April 2019, and ultimately earned a cumulative whole of 5.73 billion yen (about US$53.2 million). Funimation screened the movie at Anime Expo in July 2019, and screened the movie in theaters in america and Canada in August 2019. The second movie Kingdom II: Harukanaru Daichi e (To Distant Lands) opened in Japan in July 2022, and has earned 5.16 billion yen (about US$37.8 million), making it the highest-earning Japanese live-action film in Japan in 2022.

Sources: Kingdom live-action movies’ Twitter account, Cinema Today (石井百合子)