Sunday 31 March 2013

Ninpuu Sentai Hurricaneger: 10 Years After V-Cinema Revealed


Before the intended April 1st announcement, the official Hurricaneger 10th Anniversary Facebook had some updates, confirming the Ninpuu Sentai Hurricaneger: 10 Years After V-Cinema! This V-Cinema will reunite the staff and cast of the Ninpuu Sentai Hurricaneger TV series that ended 10 years ago.

Shun Shioya, Nao Nagasawa and Kohei Yamamoto will reprise their roles as Yosuke Shiina/Hurricane Red, Nanami Nono/Hurricane Blue and Kouta Bitou/Hurricane Yellow respectively. In addition, aside from the main trio, these actors are confirmed to reprise their roles for the V-Cinema, and they are: Yujiro Shirakawa as Ikkou Kasumi/Kabuto Raiger, Nobuo Kyo as Isshu Kasumi/Kuwaga Raiger, Shoko Takada as Oboro Hinata, Ken Nishida as Mugensai Hinata, Azusa Yamamoto as Frabeejo and Mio Fukumizu as Wendine.

Jun Hikasa and Hideaki Tsukada are back as Executive Producers (Toei) for the V-Cinema, Kazuo Katou and Takeshi Nakano as Producers (Toei Video) and Nao Nagasawa and Kouhei Yamamoto as Associate Producers. The idea for the V-Cinema was made by Ms. Nagasawa and Mr. Yamamoto as mentioned in the video below.


Taking place 10 years after the Hurricanegers defeated Jakanja, our heroes must face a new enemy threat.

The V-Cinema will be released in Collector's Pack, Blu-ray and DVD releases. The Collector's Pack costs 10,290 yen, the Blu-ray costs 5,775 yen and DVD costs 4,725 yen, with the Collector's Pack containing a 1-hour documentary of the series.

Directed by Katsuya Watanabe and written by Hurricaneger series head writer Junichi Miyashita, the V-Cinema will be released this August 9th.

UPDATED: More info courtesy of Henshin Justice.