Sekiro: No Defeat Shares New Battle Footage
The film opens in Japan on September 4 for a three-week run, with Crunchyroll handling streaming in select regions in 2026.
Staff released a battle scene clip from Sekiro: No Defeat on Friday. The anime adapts FromSoftware's Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, with the game's Japanese cast returning.
The team behind Sekiro: No Defeat released a battle scene clip on Friday. The anime film adapts FromSoftware's Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice game.
Japanese theaters will show the film for three weeks beginning September 4.
Crunchyroll will stream it exclusively in 2026 worldwide, except in Japan, China, Korea, Russia, and Belarus. The film also screened outside competition at this year's Annecy International Animation Film Festival.
The game's Japanese voice actors return in their original roles:
- Daisuke Namikawa as Sekiro
- Miyuki Satō as Kuro
- Kenjirō Tsuda as Genichiro Ashina
- Jin Urayama as Sculptor
- Shizuka Itō as Emma
- Akimitsu Takase as Hanbei
- Takaya Hashi as Owl
- Tetsuo Kanao as Isshin Ashina
The main production team includes:
- Director: Kenichi Kutsuna at Qzil.la
- Screenwriter: Takuya Satou
- Character designer: Takahiro Kishida (Durarara!!)
- Music composer: Shūta Hasunuma
Other staff members are:
- Assistant director: Shunsuke Fukui
- Chief animation director: Kaito Mogi
- Action animation director: Takashi Mukouda
- Art director: Yūji Kaneko
- Color key artist: Azusa Sasaki
- Compositing director of photography: Keisuke Nozawa
- Editor: Yoshinori Murakami
- Sound director: Yasushi Nagura
- Producer: ARCH
- Liquid art: Atsushi Harada
- Color grading: Tatsuya Fukumoto
- Sound effects: Kiyotaka Kawata
- Pre-production and post-production: Studio Betta
The theme song is composer Ryuichi Sakamoto's “Blu,” taken from his album The Best of 'Playing the Orchestra 2014'.
In an official statement released in August 2025, the staff confirmed that the anime's production used no AI.
Publisher Activision describes Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice as a single-player, third-person action-adventure game with RPG elements. Hidetaka Miyazaki directed the game, which Activision published.
Players control a hardened warrior seeking to rescue his master, a young lord descended from an ancient bloodline, and avenge himself against his greatest enemy.
The setting reimagines Japan's late-1500s Sengoku era, a bloody, brutal period of relentless struggles between life and death. Its protagonist, the “one-armed wolf,” is a disgraced, disfigured warrior saved from near death.
Players confront towering enemies using lethal prosthetic tools and powerful ninja skills. Combat combines stealth, vertical movement, and bloody, direct clashes.
The game's promotional description urges players to pursue revenge, reclaim their honor, and devise ingenious ways to kill.
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice arrived on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC through Steam in March 2019. Worldwide sales exceeded 2 million copies in fewer than 10 days.
Source: ANN
