Capcom's popular video game franchise Sengoku Basara will have its first live-action series to be entitled, “Sengoku Basara -Moonlight Party-” starting next month! The series was first adapted into two anime series and a movie.
Actor/singer GACKT (New Fist of the North Star, Kamen Rider Decade) will star as the tyrant Oda Nobunaga (right); Kento Hayashi (Arakawa Under the Bridge) as the six-sword wielder, Date Masamune (center); and, Kouhei Takeda (Hana Kimi, Kamen Rider Kiva) as spearman. Sanada Yukimura (left).
GACKT will contribute the ending theme song “Hakuro.” The show will premiere on July 12th on MBS, and will run late night, every Thursday at 1:25 a.m. (or early Friday morning). The drama will proceed to the BS-TBS channel later in September.
Update: Hidenori Tokuyama (Kamen Rider Kabuto, Hana Kimi 2012) was added into the cast as Masamune's loyal retainer, Kojuro Katakura.
via Anime News Network, Siliconera
