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The teaser also highlights Kiryu’s iconic dragon tattoo being applied, alongside brief scenes from the show.

Another big announcement was made:House of Ninjas’Kento Kaku will be portraying Akira “Nishiki” Nishikiyama.

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Kaku discussed the challenge of portraying complex relationships, particularly between Kazama and Nishiki.

I really fell in love with every character.

So yeah, I’d say relationship."

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And I think of the 1995 line as the emotional engine of the story.

Then 2005 is showing how power can corrupt.

And we felt like we needed both to have a successful story."

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And also, I had to carefully portray how they changed so much.

So for 1995, I am for more how this is emotional and instinctive portrayal.

And for 2005, I am for stripped down and hard to read expressions.

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That’s what I focus on the most."

So we talked a lot and we talked how to elevate this show.

And that’s what we talked about, privacy life.

And yeah, finally we are getting like brothers in life."

So we went there and trained with the professional for five days a week.

And it started from, not only did I do fighting choreography, I trained for that.

I gained weight and did the weight lifting as well."

“But at the same time, there’s a ten-year gap of him being in jail.

So it took about eight months to actually get in shape to do the show.”