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Live-Action Gintama Film Opens in the Philippines on August 30
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Philippine film distributor Pioneer Films revealed on Tuesday that it will open the live-action film of Hideaki Sorachi's Gintama manga in the Philippines on August 30.
The film opened in Japan on July 14.
UVERworld (Blue Exorcist, The Heroic Legend of Arslan) is performing the film's theme song "DECIDED."
Sorachi began the manga in 2004 and it continues to be ranked among the top-selling manga in Japan. The manga has more than 50 million copies in print in Japan. Shueisha published the manga's 68th volume in Japan on April 4. The manga entered its final arc last July.
The manga inspired a television anime that premiered in 2006 and continued (with several extended hiatuses) until 2013. The fifth and latest Gintama television anime series premiered on January 8, and the show began airing reruns in April. The manga also inspired two anime films, including the "final" Gekijōban Gintama Kanketsu-hen: Yorozuya yo Eien Nare film that opened in 2013, and various OVAs and event anime.
[Via AnimePH]
