In the year 2020, when Covid-19 is rapidly spreading around the world, chaos ensues and people's daily lives are completely upended. A virus outbreak suddenly occurs at the prime minister's office in Japan. This leads to the prime minister's sudden death. The Japanese government then puts in place an unprecedented plan, which is to bring back the greatest leaders from Japan's past through AI holograms and form a super cabinet with them. These famous individuals include Ieyasu Tokugawa, Ryoma Sakamoto, Nobunaga Oda, and Hideyoshi Toyotomi. People are stunned and at the same time go crazy over the endless execution of policies by this new legendary cabinet. Risa Nishimura wants to become an announcer and currently works as a TV reporter for a broadcasting station. She approaches a government spokesperson, Ryoma Sakamoto, for an exclusive scoop. Due to an unexpected case, she realizes that something is going on behind this cabinet.
Acting
GACKT chewing scenery as hologram Nobunaga
Production
AI cabinet room looks like evil Apple Store
Writing
Who pitched 'COVID + time-travel warlords' and kept their job
Director
Hideki Takeuchi
Minami Hamabe
Risa Nishimura
Eiji Akaso
Ryoma Sakamoto
GACKT
Nobunaga Oda
Masahiro Takashima
Yoshimune Tokugawa
Noriko Eguchi
Masako Hojo
Tetsuhiro Ikeda
Tsunayoshi Tokugawa
Shinya Kote
Yoshimitsu Ashikaga
Mijika Nagai
Shotoku Prince
Arisa Mizuki
Shikibu Murasaki
Naoto Takenaka
Hideyoshi Toyotomi
Mansai Nomura
Ieyasu Tokugawa
Takuma Otoo
Mitsunari Ishida
Koji Yamamoto
Toshizo Hijikata
Zen Kajihara
Keiichi Morimoto
Suguru Adachi
Takuya Yoshida
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Japan's 2020s 'historical figure reincarnation' boom peaked with this and several manga—collective national stress response, arguably.
GACKT has played Nobunaga multiple times across games and film; this may be his fourth iteration. The man has a type.
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