Sengoku BASARA: Samurai Kings (2009): cast, story & where to watch

Released in 2009, Sengoku BASARA: Samurai Kings is an animation, action & adventure and war & politics series.

What it’s about. During the Sengoku period, there are many factions constantly at war. One of these is led by a one-eyed man named Date Masamune and another by the imposing Takeda Shingen. The latter has a fiercely loyal subordinate named Sanada Yukimura who goes head to head against Date Masamune multiple times, but the battles between them tend to get interrupted. One such battle occurs when both men try to go after another leader named Imagawa, and they’re forced to break off their heated duel when Imagawa attempts to flee the scene with his body doubles. Yukimura and Masamune go after separate Imagawas, but all of the doubles are killed by a third party, and when their paths cross again, they are in front of the menacing Oda Nobunaga and his army. It was Nobunaga’s subordinates that killed those body doubles, and Nobunaga himself proceeds to kill the real Imagawa with a shotgun blast to the head.

Who’s in it. Sengoku BASARA: Samurai Kings stars Kazuya Nakai as Date Masamune (voice), Soichiro Hoshi as Sanada Yukimura (voice), Norio Wakamoto as Oda Nobunaga (voice) and Hiroki Shimowada as Mori Ranmaru (voice), among others.

How it landed. With an audience score of 6.2/10, Sengoku BASARA: Samurai Kings has drawn a solid, mixed-to-positive response.

Where to watch. In AU you can rent or buy it from Apple TV Store. See the full, country-by-country breakdown on our where to watch Sengoku BASARA: Samurai Kings page.

If you liked it. Fans of Sengoku BASARA: Samurai Kings tend to enjoy Rick and Morty, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Attack on Titan and Attack on Titan: No Regrets.