Actress Riho Yoshioka attended the Senjin Festival for the Netflix series "Ikusagami" held at Sensoji Temple (Taito Ward, Tokyo) on November 13th. Appearing in a black one-shoulder dress that showed off her beautiful skin, Yoshioka captivated the audience with her smile and greeting, "Good evening, everyone. It's cold, isn't it?"
Yoshioka couldn't hide her surprise when she said about the film, "I watched it all in one go today, and I was like, 'Does this person die here?' An incredible cast of actors dies in an instant. I had to rewind and watch it several times."
The event was also attended by Junichi Okada, Yumia Fujisaki, Kaya Kiyohara, Masahiro Higashide, Shota Sometani, Taichi Saotome, Yuya Endo, Kazunari Ninomiya Taiiku Okazaki , Hiroshi Tamaki, Hideaki Ito, and director Michihito Fujii.
"Ikusagami" is a live-action adaptation of the "Ikusagami" series, a samurai battle royale novel by Naoki Prize-winning author Shogo Imamura. The story is set in the Meiji era, when the era of the samurai came to an end. In the live-action version, 292 skilled warriors gather at Tenryu-ji Temple in Kyoto late at night in the year 11 of the Meiji era, with the opportunity to win a huge prize. They are told the rules of the game: each person must compete to grab the wooden cards they have been given, and whoever makes it to Tokyo will receive the prize. The protagonist, Shujiro Saga (played by Okada), decides to participate in the game in order to save his wife and child from illness... and so the story unfolds.
