Takeshi Kaneshiro played Samonosuke Akechi in Onimusha: Warlords, while subsequent installments used Yūsaku Matsuda (who died of bladder cancer in 1989 at the age of 40) and Jean Reno as face ...

Onimusha 2: Samurai's Destiny featured the likeness of the late actor Yūsaku Matsuda, while the first and third Onimusha titles use the likeness of Takeshi Kaneshiro, ...

For the first Onimusha, as well as Onimusha 3: Demon Siege, Samanosuke Akechi was played by heartthrob arthouse actor-singer Takeshi Kaneshiro. Takeshi Kaneshiro is very much still alive and well ...

Takeshi Kaneshiro played Samonosuke Akechi in Onimusha: Warlords, while subsequent installments used Yūsaku Matsuda (who died of bladder cancer in 1989 at the age of 40) and Jean Reno as face ...

The Onimusha series has also made use of living actors, including Takeshi Kaneshiro and French actor Jean Reno, to portray in-game characters.

When the Onimusha: Warlords remaster was released back in 2018, the original model and voice for Samanosuke, Takeshi Kaneshiro, came back to re-record his lines.

At just 31 years old, Takeshi Kaneshiro is one of Asian cinema's fastest rising superstars. Half-Taiwanese and half-Japanese, he hit the big time as a teen pop idol in the early 1990s, then ...

Nobunaga Oda has come back to unlife as the Demon Lord, and Samanosuke Akechi is there to stop him. As the final battle begins, a portal suddenly whisks Samanosuke away. Present day Paris suddenly ...

Netflix’s anime adaptation of Onimusha airs on November 2nd, and the streaming company has just released a new trailer to get you hyped for it. Directed by Takashi Miike (Audition, Ichi The ...

Takeshi Kaneshiro, who debuted as a singer in Taiwan in 1992, has not appeared on the big screen since 2017, has no official social media and no one knows where he lives but he remains as ...

At just 31 years old, Takeshi Kaneshiro is one of Asian cinema's fastest rising superstars. Half-Taiwanese and half-Japanese, he hit the big time as a teen pop idol in the early 1990s, then ...