in december 2006, director christophe gans said that he had "onimusha" lined up to film. the film, budgeted at over $70 million, was to begin production in china in february 2008 for a december 2009 release. it was reported that takeshi kaneshiro would be in the movie, reprising his role as samanosuke. hadida had to delay the filming of "onimusha", which has resulted in the film's japanese cast working on other film projects during the delay, and being unavailable to start filming "onimusha". these factors meant that gans would direct an adaptation of leo perutz's novel "the swedish cavalier" first. satomi ishihara and tsuyoshi ihara remained attached to the project. however, there has been no further news regarding this film.