Sentai Filmworks Snags the Gintama Anime Film

Joseph Luster February 10, 2012

Sentai Filmworks announcements keep on comin’, and the latest is the anime film Gintama: Shinyaku Benizakura-hen, or just Gintama – The Movie. Originally released in Japanese theaters in April 2010, the 95-minute feature will be available digitally soon, with plans to release it on DVD and Blu-ray later this year.

The fact that Sentai plans to release the film on Blu-ray lead many to believe it would receive a dub, which the distributor quickly confirmed. Sentai has also released Gintama‘s first 49 episodes across four collections, but those are sub-only.

The plot of the film is a retelling of one of the series’ arcs. Here’s Sentai’s synopsis:

Odd Jobs Gin has taken on a lot of odd work in the past, and when you’re a Jack of All Trades agency based in a feudal Japan that’s been conquered and colonized by aliens, the term “Odd Jobs” means REALLY ODD jobs. But when some more than slightly suspicious secrets from the shadows of OJG founder Gintoki Sakata’s somewhat shady former samurai past and a new pair of odd jobs collide, the action is bound to get so wild and demented that only a feature film will do it justice! So if you’ve had the good fortune to see Gintama, Japan’s most popular science fiction samurai series before, get ready for more of the same on an epic scale! And if you haven’t seen Gintama before, well, this is your quick and easy introduction to why Gintama (the series) is the hottest thing to hit the Land of the Rising Sun since a certain large, green reptile whose name we can’t use due to certain litigious lawyers! So sit down, strap yourself in and make sure you’re not wearing anything too tight or constricting as the junior half of OJG takes on the task of tracking down a tenacious terrorist while their silver-haired slickster of a partner seeks out a certain sword in the side-splittingly sillyGINTAMA- THE MOVIE!

And here’s the film’s Japanese trailer: