Kingdom Movie Trilogy Reveals The Second Trailer For The Third Installment
On Friday, the official website for the live-action films based on Yasuhisa Hara’s Kingdom manga unveiled the second full trailer and a new teaser visual for Kingdom: Unmei no Honō (Flames of Destiny), the third installment in the franchise. The trailer focuses on the Chō (Zhao) generals who are the enemy in the film. Kingdom: Unmei no Honō will be released in theaters on July 28.
The movie’s storyline follows the Shi Ka (Zi Xia) arc and the Battle of Bayou, which marks the first time Shin (Xin) and Ō Ki (Wang Qi) joined forces on the battlefield to defend against the invasion of the powerful Chō (Zhao) army from the north. Anne Watanabe joins the cast as Shi Ka (Zi Xia), a crucial character in the film. Other new cast members include Kataoka Ainosuke VI as Fuu Ki (Feng Ji), Kōji Yamamoto as Chō Sō (Zhao Zhuang), and Yuki Yamada as Man Goku (Wan Ji).
The actors who reprise their roles from the previous films are Kento Yamazaki as Shin (Xin), Ryō Yoshizawa as Ei Sei (Yin Zheng), Takao Osawa as Ō Ki (Wang Qi), and Kanna Hashimoto as Ka Ryō Ten (He Liao Diao). Nana Seino, Hiroshi Tamaki, and Kōichi Satō from the second film also reprise their respective roles as Kyо̄ Kai, Sho Hei Kun (Lord Changping), and Ryo Fui (Lu Buwei).
The movie is directed by Shinsuke Satō (known for live-action adaptations of Gantz, Death Note Light up the NEW world, Bleach). Hara and Tsutomu Kuroiwa (known for One Piece Film Gold, live-action Black Butler, GANTZ:O) collaborated on the screenplay.
The first Kingdom film was released in Japan in April 2019 and grossed a total of 5.73 billion yen (about US$53.2 million). It was also screened by Funimation at Anime Expo in July 2019 and in theaters in the United States and Canada in August 2019. The second film, Kingdom II: Harukanaru Daichi e (To Distant Lands), was released in Japan in July 2022 and has earned 5.16 billion yen (about US$37.8 million), making it the highest-grossing Japanese live-action film in Japan for 2022.
