A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Premiere:
July 2, 2017
# of Seasons: 1
# of Episodes: 13
Finale:
September 24, 2017
Original Title:
活撃 刀剣乱舞
Alternate Titles:
Katsugeki! Touken Ranbu
Katsugeki! Tōken Ranbu
活撃 刀剣乱舞
Genres:
Action & Adventure | Animation | Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Production Companies:
ufotable
Countries:
JP
The year is 1863 as the tumultuous samurai era is coming to an end, Japan is split between the pro-shogunate and anti-shogunate factions. The fate of the world is threatened as an army of historical revisionists are sent from the future to alter the course of history. In order to bring these forces down and protect the real history, two sword warriors, spirits who are swords brought to life by Saniwa (sage), rush to Edo. The polite and thoughtful Horikawa Kunihiro and the short tempered yet skillful Izuminokami Kanesada, who served the same master, confront the invading army along with a lively gang of other warriors including Mutsunokami Yoshiyuki, Yagen Toushirou, Tombokiri, and Tsurumaru Kuninaga. As the fate of history lies in these hero's hands, what meets the blade is yet to be uncovered...
Click each video panel to show or hide.
Although TheMovieDB might provide a key to a YouTube video, there is no guarantee that the video might be present at YouTube.
3D Director:
Kazuki Nishiwaki
Art Direction:
Koji Eto
Character Designer:
Yuka Shiojima
Miyuki Ishizuka
Yukako Serai
Kayo Kizawa
Rio
Moe Tsuzuki
Toko Uchimura
Miki Yamazaki
Director of Photography:
Yuichi Terao
Editor:
Manabu Kamino
Original Music Composer:
Hideyuki Fukasawa
Producer:
Hikaru Kondo
Production Manager:
Ryu Suzuki
Series Director:
Toshiyuki Shirai
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.