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Live-Action Gintama Film Casts Kouichi Yamadera as Shōyō Yoshida's Voice
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The official Kouichi Yamadera will voice the character Shōyō Yoshida in the film. Yamadera also voiced the character in the anime. Yoshida founded the Shoka Sonjuku school and served as a teacher to Gintoki, Katsura, and Takasugi in their childhood before the Jōin Wars separated all of them. The Twitter revealed stills from the film showing scenes of the characters during their time under Yoshida.
The film will open in Japan on July 14.
Mr. Nietzsche in the Convenience Store) is directing the film, as well as penning the script. The film's cast includes:
Masaki Suda as Shinpachi Shimura, who works at Yorozuya
Kanna Hashimoto as Kagura, another Yorozuya employee
Masaki Okada as Kotarō Katsura, Gintoki's longtime sworn friend, alongside Elizabeth
Masami Nagasawa as Tae Shimura, a physically strong girl and sister of Shinpachi
Tsuyoshi Muro as Gengai Hiraga, the proprietor of Karakuri-dō
Jirō Satō as Henpeita Takechi
Nanao as Matako Kijima
Hirofumi Arai as Nizō Okada (right)
Ken Yasuda as Tetsuya Murata
Tetsuko Murata
Kankurō Nakamura VI as Isao Kondo, a Shinsengumi commander
Yuuya Yagira as Toshiro Hijikata, a Shinsengumi member who is most popular with girls
Ryō Yoshizawa as Sougo Okita, a sharp-tounged Shinsengumi member
The film is also Kii Kitano will play Mitsuba.
performing the film's theme song "DECIDED."
Sorachi began the manga in 2004 and it entered its final arc last July.
The manga inspired a television anime that premiered in 2006 and continued (with several extended various OVAs and event anime.
Source: Comic Natalie
