{"id":47992,"date":"2025-05-15T11:59:07","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T02:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=47992"},"modified":"2025-05-15T12:00:36","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T03:00:36","slug":"japans-toei-denies-signing-deal-for-samurai-movie-about-yasuke-nothing-decided-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/japans-toei-denies-signing-deal-for-samurai-movie-about-yasuke-nothing-decided-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s Toei denies signing deal for samurai movie about Yasuke. Nothing decided yet\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Last month, Western media reported that Japanese film giant Toei signed a deal with South African company Pambili for the co-production of a historical epic feature film tentatively titled Yasuke \u2013 Way of the Butterfly. According to Toei, this information is not accurate (as reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sankei.com\/article\/20250514-CBYLIUQK7RE7LGKDAK2OFR4G5U\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Sankei News<\/a>).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking to shareholders at a conference held on May 14, Toei\u2019s executive vice president Koichi Wada explained that Toei did receive a proposal from a South African company for a historical movie about Oda Nobunaga\u2019s retainer Yasuke, but denied signing a deal or starting production. He clarified that this is \u201cone of several proposals we have received from overseas and are considering.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Initial reports about the film\u2019s production cited that the deal was publicly announced in Los Angeles on April 10. This is when Toei held an event to promote its Toei Studios Kyoto. It seems like some discussion about the proposal for Yasuke \u2013 Way of the Butterfly happened then, but Toei still hasn\u2019t decided whether it will participate in production or not.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toei executive vice president Koichi Wada has debunked reports about a Yasuke movie being production, calling it &#8220;one of several proposals.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":47996,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,65],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-47992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-nongaming-news","tag-japan-related-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Japan\u2019s Toei denies signing deal for samurai movie about Yasuke. 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