It was announced during the Netflix Tudum Japan event on Sunday that an anime version of the Onimusha video game series will be available on Netflix.

The series will be directed by renowned filmmaker Takashi Miike, who is most known for his live-action films Ichi the Killer, Blade of the Immortal, Crows Zero, and JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable.

The series is being directed by Shin’ya Sugai (Shikizakura, Dragon’s Dogma).

For the role of Miyamoto Musashi in the series, the late, well-known actor Toshir Mifune (Rashomon, Seven Samurai) will serve as a model.

Onimusha Sengoku-era survival action game series was introduced by CAPCOM in 2001. The games in the series relate tales from the Sengoku period while including paranormal aspects. Onimusha: Warlords, the most recent game in the collection, was remastered and published in January 2019.

The Onimusha: Dawn of Dreams computer-animated film from 2006 was influenced by the game series. The movie combines the computer-generated animation from the Onimusha: Dawn of Dreams PlayStation 2 game with new animated segments.