The official website for the live-action film of Yasuhisa Hara’s Kingdom manga announced on Friday that the film will have a sequel.
The first film opened in Japan in April 2019 and sold 506,861 tickets to earn 690,219,500 yen (about US$6.17 million) in its first three days.
The film later sold a total of 4.11 million tickets for 5,471,938,400 yen (about US$50.42 million), and eventually earned a cumulative total of 5.73 billion yen (about US$53.2 million).
Hara’s historical manga began with the slave boy Xin and his dream of becoming a great general for the state of Qin.