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Onimusha film scores Kaneshiro as lead; Nex scores delicious sandwich
Nex06.02.08 - 8:53 PM 24 comments

Onimusha film scores Kaneshiro as lead; Nex scores delicious sandwich screenshot

Last night I brought you all the chilling news that Paul W.S. Anderson would be directing the film adaptation of Spy Hunter, the finest video game based on a Peter Gunn theme song in the history of man. As suicide rates skyrocketed among Spy Hunter's legion of fans (for they truly are legion), Christophe Gans took it upon his vaguely effeminate French shoulders to embiggen the spirits of game-to-movie-adaptation fans all over the world with the news that his film, the upcoming theatrical version of Capcom's Onimusha series, would feature Takeshi Kaneshiro as the eponymous samurai.

Why is this news so awesome as to cause me to use a word like eponymous? Other than the fact that he happens to be cooler than Andre 3000 and George Patton combined, Mr. Kaneshiro just so happens to have been the basis for the lead character in the series in the first place. Not only has each iteration of the character in the various games been modeled after him, but the voice work for said characters has also been contributed by Kaneshiro. Aside from resurrecting the corpse of Shimazu Yoshihisa, it simply doesn't get any more authentic than that.



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Mxyzptlk's Avatar
Mxyzptlk at 06/02/2007 20:57

But will it have Jean Reno?
deadpixel's Avatar
deadpixel at 06/02/2007 21:02

not until number 3, god help us if that day comes
Crunshii's Avatar
Crunshii at 06/02/2007 21:06

I heard the rock was going to be acting in this. I lost faith in this high potential movie by that, plz someone confirm he is no longer in it...
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Nex at 06/02/2007 21:18

@ Crun:
I believe you're confusing this with the Spy Hunter film (that the Rock was once attached to). As far as I know, this announcement is the first we've heard about the cast of the Onimusha film.
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Robert at 06/02/2007 21:29

What's Yoshihisa got to do with it? *only played the third one*

>:V
beer baron's Avatar
beer baron at 06/02/2007 21:38

Embiggen is a perfectly cromulent word
Nex's Avatar
Nex at 06/02/2007 21:41

IT IS! IT'S SO CROMULENT!
thelegendarydurden's Avatar
thelegendarydurden at 06/02/2007 22:00

what about the sammich
s0lesurviv0r's Avatar
s0lesurviv0r at 06/02/2007 22:21

Bad....wait for it....asssssss!
Farktoid's Avatar
Farktoid at 06/02/2007 22:29

I'll only watch it if they make Christopher Walken Gildenstern.

Or maybe that was Devil May Cry... I always get those two mixed up.
tazarthayoot's Avatar
tazarthayoot at 06/02/2007 22:42

He makes me wanna LALA.
Colette Bennett's Avatar
Colette Bennett at 06/02/2007 22:45

Hot. I wanna do stuff to that guy.
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Netik09 at 06/02/2007 23:48

He's a bamf for sure. He kicked in Returner. One of my favorite movies.
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Wedge at 06/03/2007 01:09

Brotherhood of the Wolf was pretty cool. And Silent Hill could have been were it not for the godawful script. And I have no clue who that Japanese guy is, but he looks badass.

Sounds good.
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DOLEMITE187 at 06/03/2007 01:36

fuck yeah! this is going to be good..good like the onimusha 3 opening cg intro..well, nothing can top that.
Mxyzptlk's Avatar
Mxyzptlk at 06/03/2007 02:01

Brotherhood of the Wolf is worth seeing just for the hot redhead. Plus, Chairman Kaga's nephew is bad ass in it.
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LongCat at 06/03/2007 02:23

Christopher Gans? Ugh....

Why not get someone who's done a Super Sentai or Kamen Rider series to handle this? With a non-Japanese person behind this, it WILL suck, no doubt about it. He'll have to go all out and American-ize it.

Now for supporting cast, I think the guy that played Hoji in Dekaranger would be great as Magoichi(sp?) - the cool guy with the gun in Oni 2.

As Kotaro, the actor that played Kiba Yuji(Horse Orphenoch) in Kamen Rider Faiz is one that comes to mind.

Of course, that's just a pipe dream.
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mrsamuel at 06/03/2007 02:45

It's very cool that they got Kaneshiro on board, but I have basically zero faith that this will be a good film. Virtually all odds are against it.

Now, if they got David Hayter to voice a CG version of Snake in a film adaptation of MGS1 that respected the source material...
uptonogood's Avatar
uptonogood at 06/03/2007 08:14

i wanna be an asian film star in asia. :(
tazarthayoot's Avatar
tazarthayoot at 06/03/2007 09:08

@LongCat

...WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT?
repsode's Avatar
repsode at 06/03/2007 11:26


"Now, if they got David Hayter to voice a CG version of Snake in a film adaptation of MGS1 that respected the source material..."

I beleive they already made one. It was called MGS2
Nex's Avatar
Nex at 06/03/2007 15:33

@ Longcat:
Dude, he's French. If anything, he'll be replacing swords with baguettes, not Americanizing it.
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shirase at 06/03/2007 21:36

I'm a straight male... but Takeshi is fucking hawt.

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