Franchise
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.
NRIn a reimagined postwar Japan, powerful swordsmen gather around the Yatsumedo restaurant and become entangled in a martial tournament organized under the shogunate.
Bakuken: Shogun Imperial Match
2021
NRIn modern Tokyo, swordsmen reincarnated across a century become involved in a violent struggle after a man once known as Oda Nobunaga is attacked.
Bakuken: Tokyo Resurrection Deathmatch
2022
NRIn 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.
Bakuken: Tokyo Resurrection Deathmatch - Rematch
2023
NRAs 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.
Bakuken: The Genpei Final Battle
2023
NRIn 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.
Bakuken: Imperial Fantasy Corps
2024
NRA Bakuken stage production centered on the Shinsengumi, continuing the alternate-history sword-fighting anthology created by Yoko Taro and Ichidai Matsuda.
Bakuken: Blades of Doubt of the Shinsengumi
2025
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.
Bakuken: Honnoji Temple Annihilation Chronicles
2026
