Touken Ranbu

is a 2019 Japanese fantasy film adaptation of a video game series of the same name. The cast from Stage: Touken Ranbu reprise their roles in the film. Distributed by Toho and Universal Pictures, the film was directed by Saiji Yakumo and written by Yasuko Kobayashi, and was released in Japan on January 18, 2019. The theme song of the film is "UNBROKEN" by Takanori Nishikawa feat. Tomoyasu Hotei. The film follows a group of sword warriors, known as "Touken Danshi", as they attempt to stop an enemy faction known as the Time Retrograde Army from interfering with the Honnō-ji Incident. Plot It is the year 2205 AD. A faction known as the Time Retrograde Army (TRA) are staging attacks on the past in order to change the course of history. In order to prevent this from happening, the Government of Time has recruited people known as Saniwa, who have the ability to breathe life into inanimate objects, to summon sword warriors known as "Touken Danshi", historical Japanese swords in the form of human bodies. In response to an attack by the TRA in the year 1582 AD to prevent the Honnō-ji Incident, the Saniwa sends a team of six Touken Danshi: Mikazuki Munechika, Yamanbagiri Kunihiro, Yagen Toushirou, Heshikiri Hasebe, Fudou Yukimitsu, and Nihongou, to defeat the TRA. The TRA attacks Akechi Mitsuhide's army while Oda Nobunaga retreats to his room to commit seppuku. Nobunaga’s vassal, as well as the former master of Fudou Yukimitsu, Mori Ranmaru, is killed while protecting Nobunaga. Mikazuki dispatches the enemies outside of Nobunaga’s room and allows Nobunaga to commit seppuku as the Honnō-ji temple burns down. History proceeds as intended, and the news reaches a distraught Toyotomi Hideyoshi.