3rd Live-Action Kingdom Film’s Trailer Reveals Anne as Shi Ka – News
The official web site for the live-action movies of Yasuhisa Hara‘s Kingdom manga revealed a brand new trailer for Kingdom: Unmei no Honō (Flames of Future), the third film, on Thursday. The trailer reveals Anne (Anne Watanabe) because the pivotal character Shi Ka (Zi Xia).
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.
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 jot down the script.
The primary movie opened in Japan in April 2019 and offered 506,861 tickets to earn 690,219,500 yen (about US$6.17 million) in its first three days. The movie finally 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 the USA and Canada in August 2019.
The second movie Kingdom II: Harukanaru Daichi e (To Distant Lands) opened in Japan in July 2022. The movie sold 527,000 tickets in its first two days, and earned 797 million yen (about US$5.75 million) to rank at #1 in its opening weekend. The movie has earned 5.16 billion yen (about US$37.8 million), making it the highest-earning Japanese live-action film in Japan in 2022.
Hara’s historic manga facilities across the slave boy Xin and his dream of turning into an amazing normal for the state of Qin. Xin helps Ying Zheng, the younger Qin king who shares his want to unify China, rise to energy throughout the state. Xin does all he can to change into a superior commander of a military able to defeating the Seven Warring States.
The record-setting manga launched in Shueisha‘s Weekly Young Jump journal in 2006.
The manga’s first tv anime adaptation premiered in 2012, and a second collection premiered in 2013. Funimation streamed each collection in North America and released each anime collection on DVD in 2016. The third anime series premiered in April 2020. The present went on hiatus after 4 episodes on account of COVID-19, however then resumed airing in April 2021. The anime restarted its airing from the primary episode. Funimation streamed the anime because it aired in Japan.
The fourth collection premiered on NHK Normal in April and aired for 13 episodes. Crunchyroll streamed the anime because it aired in Japan. The anime’s fifth collection will premiere in January 2024.
Sources: Kingdom live-action movies’ website, Comic Natalie