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新訳紅桜篇)\n\n**Gintama: The Movie** (劇場版 銀魂 新訳紅桜篇, *Gekijōban Gintama: Shin'yaku Benizakura-hen*) is a 2010 Japanese animated film by Sunrise that restructures the well-received television episode \"Benizakura Arc\" with a new interpretation. It was the first theatrical film based on the *Gintama* TV anime series, itself adapted from Hideaki Sorachi's science-fiction period comedy manga serialized in [Weekly Shōnen Jump](https://www.edgepedia.org/weekly-shonen-jump) from 2003, and it was distributed in Japan by [Warner Bros. Pictures](https://www.edgepedia.org/warner-bros-pictures) on April 24, 2010.[1](https://jfdb.jp/title/2446) • [2](https://www.wowow.co.jp/detail/112940/-/01) • [3](https://eiga.com/movie/55067/)\n\n| Key fact | Detail |\n|---|---|\n| Japanese release | April 24, 2010, distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures; home video released by Aniplex[4](https://www.sunrise-inc.co.jp/work/detail.php?cid=289) |\n| Source material | A new-interpretation restructuring of the TV episode \"Benizakura Arc\" (紅桜篇)[1](https://jfdb.jp/title/2446) |\n| Director and studio | Shinji Takamatsu, Sunrise; supervising director Yoichi Fujita, script by Akatsuki Yamatoya, character design by Shinji Takeuchi[4](https://www.sunrise-inc.co.jp/work/detail.php?cid=289) |\n| Runtime | 96 minutes per the Japanese Film Database; the Australian classification record lists 91 minutes[1](https://jfdb.jp/title/2446) • [5](https://www.classification.gov.au/titles/gintama-movie-new-translation-benizakura-arc) |\n| Opening performance | 90 screens nationwide; 160,000 admissions and about ¥200 million in the first two days, debuting at #4 on the attendance ranking[6](https://sunrise.fandom.com/ja/wiki/%E5%8A%87%E5%A0%B4%E7%89%88_%E9%8A%80%E9%AD%82_%E6%96%B0%E8%A8%B3%E7%B4%85%E6%A1%9C%E7%AF%87) |\n| Final box office | ¥1.07 billion in Japan, 28th among 2010's Japanese films[7](https://www.eiren.org/toukei/2010.html) |\n| Main voice cast | Tomokazu Sugita, Daisuke Sakaguchi, and Rie Kugimiya[1](https://jfdb.jp/title/2446) |\n| Theme song | \"Bakuchi Dancer\" by DOES[8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQd7ww_46zM) |\n\n## Spoilers\n\n### Story and setting\n\nThe film is set in an alternate end-of-Edo-period Japan in which, instead of the black ships, spaceships arrived carrying the Amanto (天人), invaders from space. After decades of war between the aliens and the people of Earth, Amanto civilization took root in Edo. A sword ban imposed by the Amanto left the silver-haired samurai Sakata Gintoki without his blade, and he now runs the Yorozuya odd-jobs shop, resolving the town's various troubles.[3](https://eiga.com/movie/55067/)\n\nThe plot centers on a killer stalking Edo with the cursed sword Benizakura (紅桜), a demonic weapon that houses an artificial intelligence, parasitizes its wielder, and evolves by accumulating combat data. The Joui patriot Kotaro Katsura disappears after being cut down by the blade, and at the request of his companion Elizabeth, the Yorozuya members Gintoki, Kagura, and Shinpachi search for him. The sword's wielder turns out to be Takasugi Shinsuke, Gintoki's former comrade from the war years, who has revived the strongest fighting band, the Kiheitai, and now turns his blade against Gintoki and Katsura as well.[4](https://www.sunrise-inc.co.jp/work/detail.php?cid=289) • [1](https://jfdb.jp/title/2446)\n\nThe Benizakura arc was a popular episode of the television series, and the film reconfigures it with a new interpretation while keeping the setting of an Edo whose values have been transformed by the alien occupation.[1](https://jfdb.jp/title/2446)\n\n## Production\n\nSunrise produced the film with Shinji Takamatsu as director and Yoichi Fujita as supervising director. Akatsuki Yamatoya wrote the screenplay, and Shinji Takeuchi handled character design and overall animation direction. The producers were Fukashi Azuma and Hiromitsu Higuchi.[4](https://www.sunrise-inc.co.jp/work/detail.php?cid=289) • [5](https://www.classification.gov.au/titles/gintama-movie-new-translation-benizakura-arc)\n\nProducer Hiromitsu Higuchi later recalled that producing the film while keeping the TV series running in parallel was difficult, since the movie was made by a separate staff from the television team.[9](https://wavemotioncannon.com/2017/08/28/gintama-looking-back-and-thanks-producer-hiromitsu-higuchi-animage-july-2017/)\n\n## Release and box office\n\nThe film opened on April 24, 2010 on 90 screens nationwide, with sold-out first days across the country. In its first two days it drew 160,000 admissions and about ¥200 million, debuting at fourth place on the attendance ranking, and business continued through the Golden Week holiday. By June 7, when the release had expanded to 66 additional screens, Warner Bros. announced that box office receipts had passed the ¥1 billion mark.[6](https://sunrise.fandom.com/ja/wiki/%E5%8A%87%E5%A0%B4%E7%89%88_%E9%8A%80%E9%AD%82_%E6%96%B0%E8%A8%B3%E7%B4%85%E6%A1%9C%E7%AF%87) • [10](https://www.cinematoday.jp/news/N0024931)\n\nThe final Japanese gross was ¥1.07 billion, placing the film 28th among all Japanese releases of 2010.[7](https://www.eiren.org/toukei/2010.html) [Box Office Mojo](https://www.edgepedia.org/box-office-mojo) records a Japanese gross of $10,405,400 and a small Taiwanese release on October 16, 2010, for a worldwide total of $10,453,259.[11](https://www.boxofficemojo.com/releasegroup/gr250302981/) In Pia's satisfaction survey of films opening April 23 and 24, 2010, the film ranked first, with the magazine noting its popularity among women as well as men.[12](https://ticket-news.pia.jp/pia/news.do?newsCd=201004260005) Internationally, the film screened at the Fantasia International Film Festival in July 2010,[13](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1636780/releaseinfo/) and the Australian Classification Board rated the DVD MA 15+ for strong animated violence in May 2012.[5](https://www.classification.gov.au/titles/gintama-movie-new-translation-benizakura-arc)\n\n## Home video and later films\n\nAniplex released the DVD on December 15, 2010; the limited-edition DVD sold 96,000 copies in its first week and debuted at number one on Oricon's overall weekly DVD chart. A Blu-ray edition followed on June 26, 2013.[14](https://www.oricon.co.jp/news/83234/full/) • [15](https://www.aniplex.co.jp/gintama/theater/)\n\nThe film was followed by further theatrical *Gintama* anime films listed by Aniplex: *Gekijōban Gintama Kanketsu-hen: Yorozuya yo Eien Nare* (2013) and *Gintama: The Final* (2021).[15](https://www.aniplex.co.jp/gintama/theater/) • [16](https://www.bandainamco.co.jp/cgi-bin/releases/index.cgi/press/9828?entry_id=6873) A new theatrical film, *Shin Gekijōban Gintama: Yoshiwara Dai Enjō* (released internationally as *Gintama: Yoshiwara in Flames*), a remake of the [Yoshiwara](https://www.edgepedia.org/yoshiwara) arc covering episodes 139 to 146 marking the anime's 20th anniversary, was released in Japan on February 13, 2026.[17](https://as.com/meristation/manga-y-anime/uno-de-los-animes-mas-populares-de-la-historia-regresa-en-2026-con-un-remake-en-forma-de-pelicula-f202512-n/) • [18](https://www.aniplex.co.jp/lineup/gintama_yoshiwara/) That film debuted at second place on the weekend attendance ranking, against the fourth-place opening of the Benizakura film in 2010.[19](https://press.moviewalker.jp/news/article/1327142/)\n\n## References\n\n1. [JFDB - 劇場版 銀魂 新訳紅桜篇 (Japan Film Database)](https://jfdb.jp/title/2446)\n2. [劇場版　銀魂　新訳紅桜篇 | 映画 | WOWOWオンライン](https://www.wowow.co.jp/detail/112940/-/01)\n3. [劇場版　銀魂　新訳紅桜篇 : 作品情報 - 映画.com](https://eiga.com/movie/55067/)\n4. [劇場版 銀魂 新訳紅桜篇｜作品紹介｜サンライズ (Sunrise official work page)](https://www.sunrise-inc.co.jp/work/detail.php?cid=289)\n5. [GINTAMA THE MOVIE: NEW TRANSLATION BENIZAKURA ARC | Australian Classification](https://www.classification.gov.au/titles/gintama-movie-new-translation-benizakura-arc)\n6. [劇場版 銀魂 新訳紅桜篇 | サンライズ Wiki | Fandom](https://sunrise.fandom.com/ja/wiki/%E5%8A%87%E5%A0%B4%E7%89%88_%E9%8A%80%E9%AD%82_%E6%96%B0%E8%A8%B3%E7%B4%85%E6%A1%9C%E7%AF%87)\n7. [過去興行収入上位作品 2010年, 一般社団法人日本映画製作者連盟 (Eiren)](https://www.eiren.org/toukei/2010.html)\n8. [『銀魂 -新訳紅桜篇-』劇場版 予告 (official trailer, YouTube)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQd7ww_46zM)\n9. [Gintama Looking Back and Thanks: Producer Hiromitsu Higuchi (Animage, July 2017), Wave Motion Cannon](https://wavemotioncannon.com/2017/08/28/gintama-looking-back-and-thanks-producer-hiromitsu-higuchi-animage-july-2017/)\n10. [アニメ映画『劇場版銀魂』が10億円超え！, シネマトゥデイ](https://www.cinematoday.jp/news/N0024931)\n11. [Gintama: The Movie - Box Office Mojo](https://www.boxofficemojo.com/releasegroup/gr250302981/)\n12. [〖ぴあ満足度〗「こんなに笑ったアニメは初めて」…『劇場版 銀魂 新訳紅桜篇』がトップに, チケットぴあ](https://ticket-news.pia.jp/pia/news.do?newsCd=201004260005)\n13. [Gintama: The Movie (2010) - Release info - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1636780/releaseinfo/)\n14. [銀魂＆ハルヒ、人気アニメ劇場版がDVD、BD共に総合首位, ORICON NEWS](https://www.oricon.co.jp/news/83234/full/)\n15. [商品情報｜「銀魂」Blu-ray&DVD/CD情報公式サイト, アニプレックス](https://www.aniplex.co.jp/gintama/theater/)\n16. [【「銀魂 新作アニメ特別編」dTV 配信概要】, バンダイナムコ](https://www.bandainamco.co.jp/cgi-bin/releases/index.cgi/press/9828?entry_id=6873)\n17. [Uno de los animes más populares de la historia regresa en 2026 con un remake en forma de película, MeriStation (AS)](https://as.com/meristation/manga-y-anime/uno-de-los-animes-mas-populares-de-la-historia-regresa-en-2026-con-un-remake-en-forma-de-pelicula-f202512-n/)\n18. [新劇場版 銀魂 -吉原大炎上- | アニプレックス](https://www.aniplex.co.jp/lineup/gintama_yoshiwara/)\n19. [『ほどなく、お別れです』がV2達成！…『新劇場版 銀魂 -吉原大炎上-』, MOVIE WALKER PRESS](https://press.moviewalker.jp/news/article/1327142/)\n\n---\n*Topic: Encyclopedia › Arts and culture › Screen and stage › Film and television › Films and standalone screen works › Films by genre, form, and subject › Animated and short films › Japanese anime features › Released 1999 to 2013*\n\n*Initially written Oct 3, 2026 · Reviewed: Oct 3, 2026; Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 3, 2026; Oct 25, 2026; Nov 1, 2026 · Last review: Oct 25, 2026*\n\n*Copyright 2026 EdgeChat AI, a subsidiary of Biostate AI.*\n\nLicense: Edgepedia Community License 1.0, https://www.edgepedia.org/edgepedia/license\n", "same_as": [], "url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/gintama-the-movie", "markdown_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/gintama-the-movie.md", "license": { "name": "Edgepedia Community License 1.0", "url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/edgepedia/license", "summary": "Free with credit, commercial use included. AI training is open to everyone. 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