
Collection
Bakuken Stage Collection
A collection of stage productions from the Bakuken series, written by Yoko Taro and directed by Ichidai Matsuda. Blending alternate history, supernatural conflict, reincarnated warriors, and elaborate sword-fighting, the series reimagines legendary figures and decisive events from Japanese history across settings such as the shogunate, modern Tokyo, the Genpei War, the Taishō era, the Shinsengumi, and the Honnō-ji Incident.
Timeline
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Bakuken: Shogun Imperial Match3/24/2021 0.0In a reimagined postwar Japan, powerful swordsmen gather around the Yatsumedo restaurant and become entangled in a martial tournament organized under the shogunate.
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Bakuken: Tokyo Resurrection Deathmatch2/23/2022 0.0In modern Tokyo, swordsmen reincarnated across a century become involved in a violent struggle after a man once known as Oda Nobunaga is attacked.
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Bakuken: Tokyo Resurrection Deathmatch - Rematch3/1/2023 0.0In the darkness of modern Tokyo, a man once called Oda Nobunaga is killed, forcing swordsmen reincarnated after a hundred years to confront what awaits them in the present.
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Bakuken: The Genpei Final Battle9/14/2023 0.0As the Genji face destruction by the Heike, Abe no Seimei and Kiichi Hogen enter the conflict while a Portuguese merchant named Michael offers a mysterious deal to both sides.
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Bakuken: Imperial Fantasy Corps12/19/2024 0.0In the Taisho era, Imperial Army Major Yoshifuru Akiyama summons swordsmen from the Sengoku period and forms them into an assassination unit, setting Nobunaga’s new ambitions in motion.
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Bakuken: Blades of Doubt of the Shinsengumi12/4/2025 0.0A Bakuken stage production centered on the Shinsengumi, continuing the alternate-history sword-fighting anthology created by Yoko Taro and Ichidai Matsuda.
- 7Bakuken: Honnoji Temple Annihilation Chronicles12/3/2026 0.0
A new chapter in the Bakuken stage series, reimagining the Honnō-ji Incident within the franchise’s alternate-history world of legendary swordsmen. Further story details have yet to be announced.