2025’s 43rd issue of Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump magazine revealed that Sakamoto Days is getting a live-action film adaptation. The Sakamoto Days live-action film is planned to premiere in Japan during Golden Week (late-April to early-May) in 2026.
Sakamoto Days Part 2 premiered on July 14 on Netflix. Rock band Kroi performs the opening theme song “Method,” and go!go!vanillas perform the ending theme song “Dandelion.”
Masaki Watanabe directs the ongoing anime at TMS Entertainment. Taku Kishimoto oversees the series scripts, and Yō Moriyama is the character designer. Kōki Uchiyama plays the role of Gaku in Sakamoto Days Part 2 alongside Hisako Kanemoto as Nao Toramaru, Tomoaki Maeno as Jōichiro Kaji, and Tatsumaru Tachibana as Shinaya.
The cast from Sakamoto Days Part 1 includes:
- Tomokazu Sugita as Taro Sakamoto
- Nobunaga Shimazaki as Shin Asakura
- Ayane Sakura as Lu Shaotang
- Nao Tōyama as Aoi Sakamoto
- Hina Kino as Hana Sakamoto
- Ryōta Suzuki as Heisuke Mashimo
- Miyari Nemoto as Piisuke
- Yūko Kaida as Dump
- Chiaki Kobayashi as Apart
- Ryōta Takeuchi as Minimalist
- Kōsuke Toriumi as Saw
- M.A.O as Akira Akao
- Mamiko Noto as Rion Akao
- Daiki Yamashita as Mafuyu Seba
- Satoshi Hino as Kanaguri
23 volumes of Yuuto Suzuki’s Sakamoto Days manga have been released in Japan thus far, with 18 being available in English right now through VIZ Media. Here’s an overview of the first volume from VIZ Media:
Time has passed peacefully for Sakamoto since he left the underworld. He’s running a neighborhood store with his lovely wife and child and has gotten a bit…out of shape. But one day a figure from his past pays him a visit with an offer he can’t refuse: return to the assassin world or die!
