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HBO Max<\/a> is set to bow \u201cSong of the Samurai,\u201d a live-action jidaigeki series rooted in one of Japan\u2019s most enduring manga franchises, on May 9.<\/p>\n

The show is drawn from \u201cChiruran: Shinsengumi Requiem,\u201d the long-running manga by Umemura Shinya, whose work on \u201cRecord of Ragnarok<\/a>\u201d earned him a global following after the title was adapted into a popular anime series. \u201cChiruran\u201d has sustained a devoted readership across more than a decade, with 36 collected volumes and upwards of three million copies sold. It has also spawned anime and stage adaptations over the years.<\/p>\n

The production brings together three major Japanese entertainment players: broadcaster TBS<\/a>,…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

HBO Max is set to bow \u201cSong of the Samurai,\u201d a live-action jidaigeki series rooted in one of Japan\u2019s most enduring manga franchises, on May 9. The show is drawn from \u201cChiruran: Shinsengumi Requiem,\u201d the long-running manga by Umemura Shinya, whose work on \u201cRecord of Ragnarok\u201d earned him a global following after the title was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2299091,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2299090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/HBO-Max-Acquires-Japanese-Period-Action-Drama-\u2018Song-of-the.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2299090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2299092,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299090\/revisions\/2299092"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2299091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2299090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2299090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2299090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}