[Grisham]

Capcom's "Onimusha," the landmark survival action video game series set in Japan's feudal Sengoku period, is being adapted into an anime series that will start streaming from Thursday, November 2, only on Netflix. Directed by Takashi Miike, this ambitious series will focus on Miyamoto Musashi, who is modeled after Toshiro Mifune, the Japanese film icon known around the globe. This is the beginning of an intense series full of realistic action in which Musashi's blade slices through evil as he traverses a land plagued by poverty.

 

[GreyHorace]

Was ready to hate it because of them shamelessly using Mifune's likeness, then I remembered the Onimusha games have used the likenesses of famous Japanese actors such as Takeshi Kaneshiro and the late Yusaku Matsuda.

Shit, they even got Jean Reno in the mix.

Not sure about Takashi Miike directing. Guy is hit or miss for me when it comes to his films. Also, this is not the first time Mifune has played Miyamoto Musashi, having portrayed the famous samurai in Hiroshi Inagaki's Samurai Trilogy.

 

[lock2k]

This is great... I loved the Onimusha series.

 

[p_banned]

Jean Reno is 75. Fuck time flies.

 

[A Elbereth Gilthoniel]

Sorry. Reviving dead actors with CG is a bit too Revelations'y for my tastes. I don't know what's worse - having dead actors who were shit foisted upon me decades after they croaked, or good actors like Mifune being being dragged out of their graves for our entertainment. Saying that, there's something about that symbol on Mifune's haori that speaks to me...It has a vaguely pleasing shape.

 

[GreyHorace]

Sorry. Reviving dead actors with CG is a bit too Revelations'y for my tastes. I don't know what's worse - having dead actors who were shit foisted upon me decades after they croaked, or good actors like Mifune being being dragged out of their graves for our entertainment. Saying that, there's something about that symbol on Mifune's haori that speaks to me...It has a vaguely pleasing shape.

Yeah. The practice is kind of creepy and disrespectful. But like I said before, it's nothing new to Capcom and Onimusha. Yusaku Matsuda died in 1989 but his likeness was used for the character of Yagyu Jubei in Oniumsha 2, which came out in 2002.

 

[Dacon]

Weirdness aside, this looks like it could be pretty good.

 

[HeresJohnny]

It looks decent, but I want another Onimusha GAME.

 

[Kadayi]

No relationship with the game, but this could be cool. Will wait for the reviews.

 

[Arkam]

Looks like a fun watch to me.

 

[DESTROYA]

Looks good but the music in the trailer felt way out of place for this kind of series