The official website for the upcoming live action adaptation of the popular Sengoku Basara video game series, “Sengoku Basara -Moonlight Party-” had updated with new information on the show's first episode. Check it out after the jump!
On the first episode, Date Masamune (Kento Hayashi) will go head-to-head with Sanada Yukimura (Kouhei Takeda). Our two combatants square of and enjoy the heat of the battle until Yukimura got wounded. Will Yukimura accepts his loss? Or will Lord Shingen Takeda (Hiroaki Iwanaga) help him?
Set in the warring states period in Japan, “Sengoku BASARA -Moonlight Party-” is a stylish drama based on a game with the same name. This first live-action TV drama is an opportunity to continue the chain of successes from previous events, theater, anime version alike.
Director Keita Matsuda fascinates audiences with a robust storyline and working a lot of CG for the live action TV and tokusatsu. He is also responsible for other works such as “Ronin Pop,” “Ultraman Zero: The Movie” and the live-action “Prince of Tennis” film. Action sequences will be led by Director Takeshi Obara known for “Ninja x Geisha” and Ryota Yamaguchi and Natsuko Takahashi known for live-action dramas and movies, will handle the scripts.
Sengoku Basara -Moonlight Party- 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.
