There has been a rumor that 48-year-old actor Jiro Sato, who was cast as Henpeita Takechi in the first film, will play the main heroine Kagura in the upcoming second Gintama live-action film instead of the first film’s 19-year-old Kanna Hashimoto.
Partly because it was officially announced on December 17 that he will join the second film as a different character, and he has admitted the possibility to play Kagura since then.
Believe or not, director Yuichi Fukuda posted a photo of Sato trying on Kagura’s costume yesterday.