Blade of the Immortal marks the second collaboration between Miike and Magnet, following 2011’s wildly successful samurai masterpiece 13 Assassins.
Magnet Releasing, the genre arm of Magnolia Pictures, announced today that they have acquired North American rights to Blade of the Immortal, the highly-anticipated and ultra-violent new title from legendary and berserkly prolific Japanese director Takashi Miike, which is his – gasp -100th film!
Directed by Takashi Miike, Blade of the Immortal was written by Tetsuya Oishi and produced by Jeremy Thomas, Misako Saka, and Shigeji Maeda, with Warner Bros. Japan.
Sôta Fukushi and Ebizô Ichikawa (13 Assassins) round out the cast with veterans Min Tanaka and Tsutomu Yamazaki.