Director Shigeaki Kubo of HiGH&LOW franchise fame is a name I, and others among my mutuals have come to love and appreciate over the last eight years or so. His latest return to the big screen comes by way of Toho nowadays as fans of actor Kento Yamazaki can now look toward January 19 for the Japan release of the new survival action thriller, Golden Kamuy.
Hailing from Credeus, Inc., the production label behind the Yamazaki-led Kingdom trilogy from director Shinsuke Sato, Golden Kamuy is based on Satoru Noda’s award-winning Seinen manga out of Weekly Young Jump which ran from 2014 to last year. The story, set in the aftermath of the Russo-Japanese War, sees Yamazaki in the role of Sugimoto, a celebrated Imperial war hero who, along with an indigenous Ainu hunter named Asirpa, finds himself at the center of a mystery involving a band of prison escapees beholden to tattoos of a ciphered map locating a hidden cache of gold.
One Piece Film: Red and Kingdom trilogy writer Tsutomu Kuroiwa adapted the screenplay. Golden Kamuy also stars Anna Yamada (What She Likes), Gordon Maeda (Tokyo Revengers franchise), Yuma Yamoto (G-Men), Asuka Kudo (Haken Anime), Shuntaro Yanagi (Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead), Ryohei Otani (Mask Ward), Katsuya (Bad City), Katsumi Kiba (The Mohican Comes Home), Hisako Okata (Plan 75), Makita Sports (Prior Convictions), Debo Akibe (Ainu Mosir), Hiroshi Tamaki (Kingdom 2 & 3), and Hiroshi Tachi (Fullmetal Alchemist 2 & 3).
Catch the teaser below!
