The staff for the live-action film of Hiroaki Samura’s Blade of the Immortal “neo period drama” manga unveiled new stills of actress Hana Sugisaki in costume as Rin Asano on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Dark Horse Comics published the Blade of the Immortal manga in North America, and plans to rerelease it in omnibus form.
Sugisaki (When Marnie Was There, live-action Humanoid Monster Bem, Tsukuroi Tatsu Hito) plays heroine Rin Asano.
Samura launched the Blade of the Immortal manga in Kodansha’s Monthly Afternoon magazine in December of 1993, and he completed the series in 2012.