As announced earlier, One Piece Film: Gold will hit Japanese theaters on July 23, 2016. One Piece creator Eiichiro Oda will reprise his role as the executive producer of the movie. The film will be directed by Hiroaki Miyamoto, who also worked on Baron Omatsuri and the Secret Island as the assistant director, and it will be written by Tsutomu Kuroiwa, who wrote the live action Liar Game: The Final Stage and Liar Game: Rebornfilms,as well as the live-action Black Butler film. We featured aninterview with Hiroaki Miyamoto in February 2014 conducted by the official One Piece website.