Capcom has announced that the protagonist of Onimusha: Way of the Sword, Miyamoto Musashi, will be modeled after the late Japanese actor Toshiro Mifune. Mifune, renowned for his roles in classic samurai films such as Seven Samurai and Yojimbo, passed away in 1997. Capcom has obtained the rights to his likeness through Mifune Productions, the company he founded in 1962.

This collaboration follows Mifune’s digital resurrection in the Onimusha anime series released on Netflix in late 2023.

“The protagonist of this game is a fierce young samurai, constantly moving from one bloody and gritty fight to the next,” the game’s official website reads. “To cement this image of a striking samurai, Capcom has turned to none other than the late, iconic Japanese samurai movie legend Toshiro Mifune to star as the face model for this rendition of Miyamoto Musashi.”

Onimusha as a video game series is no stranger to using actors, both dead and alive, for its protagonists. Takeshi Kaneshiro played Samonosuke Akechi in Onimusha: Warlords, while subsequent installments used Yūsaku Matsuda who passed away from bladder cancer in 1989 at the age of 40 and Jean Reno as face models for its protagonists.

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