The production team behind Sekiro: No Defeat, the upcoming anime film based on FromSoftware’s acclaimed game Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, released a new clip on Thursday. The footage highlights a fierce sword duel between Wolf and Genichiro Ashina, offering fans their most detailed look yet at the film’s action.
Full Game Cast Returns
The anime reunites the original Japanese voice cast from the game, with the following actors reprising their roles:
- Daisuke Namikawa as Sekiro
- Miyuki Satō as Kuro
- Kenjirō Tsuda as Genichiro Ashina
- Jin Urayama as Sculptor
- Shizuka Itō as Emma
- Akimitsu Takase as Hanbei
- Takaya Hashi as Owl
- Tetsuo Kanao as Isshin Ashina
Staff
Kenichi Kutsuna is directing the film at studio Qzil.la, with Takuya Satou handling the screenplay. Takahiro Kishida, known for Durarara!!, is serving as character designer, and Shūta Hasunuma is composing the score.
Additional staff includes:
- Assistant Director: Shunsuke Fukui
- Chief Animation Director: Kaito Mogi
- Action Animation Director: Takashi Mukouda
- Art Director: Yūji Kaneko
- Color Key Artist: Azusa Sasaki
- Compositing Director of Photography: Keisuke Nozawa
- Editor: Yoshinori Murakami
- Sound Director: Yasushi Nagura
- Producer: ARCH
- Liquid Art: Atsushi Harata
- Color Grading: Tatsuya Fukumoto
- Sound Effects: Kiyotaka Kawata
- Pre/Post Production: Studio Betta
Theme Song, Festival Screening, and Streaming
The film’s theme song is “Blu”, taken from legendary composer Ryuichi Sakamoto‘s album The Best of ‘Playing the Orchestra 2014’.
The film screened out of competition at this year’s Annecy International Animation Film Festival. Crunchyroll will exclusively stream the anime worldwide in 2026, excluding Japan, China, Korea, Russia, and Belarus.
In August 2025, the production team issued an official statement confirming that no AI was used in the making of the anime.
About Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
Directed by Hidetaka Miyazaki and published by Activision, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice is a third-person action-adventure game set in a reimagined late-1500s Sengoku-era Japan. Players take on the role of a disgraced, one-armed warrior who must rescue his young lord — a descendant of an ancient bloodline — and take revenge on his nemesis, using a combination of stealth, ninja abilities, and deadly prosthetic tools.
The game launched on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC via Steam in March 2019, selling over 2 million copies worldwide in under 10 days.
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