Japanese actor Toshiro Mifune – the most critical of the appearance in films such as seven samurai, hidden fortress and yojimbo for director Akira Kurosawa – he was dead for almost 30 years. But apparently this cannot stop him from appearing in the fresh video game in 2026.
Since December, Capcom has been irritating with the early series of Samurai from the beginning of the 20th century Oniimusha, and during today’s PlayStation State of Play Livestream finally showed some fight and some cutscenes focused on onimusha: Way of the Sword’s hero, which sometimes happens to be one of them with The most notable Japanese historical figures, swordsman Miyamoto Musashi. And you don’t know it – Toshiro Mifune played in Musashi Film Trilogy Published in the 1950s. Capcom apparently decided that he was still a man to work, even 70 years later.
“At ONIMUSHA: Way of the Sword Musashi is a fierce young samurai, who in the supernatural bend of fate, runs Gauntlet One and the fight with the hordes of the demonic genmy,”, Capcom described in detail in the press release on Wednesday. Here is the confirmation: “Musashi’s face is modeled on Toshiro Mifune, a late, iconic Japanese film star, which presented Musashi in classic samurai films.”
. official website It offers slightly more colors, explaining that Mifune’s face was used as a Musashusha Musashusha model while his actor Kenichiro Thomson. “The hero of this game is a fierce young samurai, still passing from one bloody and rough fight to the next. To strengthen this picture of a striking samurai, Capcom turned to the late, iconic Samurai Samurai film Toshiro Mifune to try as a face model for this version of Miyamoto Musashi. “
After the success of the actor, Mifune founded a production company that still exists today, which probably controls the employ of his similarity. I would love to know how scanty or willing to licensing the actor’s face. Did Capcom really have to give them tough sales?
We don’t see much fight in the herousha heroic trailer, but fencing immediately stands out as slower and heavier than many action games, including its own capcom. Musashi makes really deliberate swings, apparently with an emphasis on one -on -one duels. I will not employ the word realistic Here – one point Musashi fights with a gigantic demon, and in my favorite moment of the trailer, he tilts his full body weight to the sword to cut the guy half from Noggin to the Nut. But from this brief look I would say that fencing is guided by Sekiro much closer, or maybe the spirit of Tsushima than, say, combo hefty ninja Gaiden or Devil can cry. But I try to deduce many of about 30 seconds of material.
In retrospect, there were signs that Mifune would serve as a similarity to this restart of ONIMUSH. Capcom made the same trick Adaptation of the anime onimusha published in 2023 Starring Musashi. Proverbs to Redditor Born_Comfort_6258 for It calls it completely in December.
