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GOLDEN KAMUY: THE HUNT OF PRISONERS IN HOKKAIDO: Netflix Slates February Debut For Hit Sequel Series

Kento Yamazaki is giving me life this year, personally. The man is a star of multiple franchises including the live-action Golden Kamuy film from director Shigeaki Kubo, as well as its sequel series which debuted last year on WOWOW… AND a feature film continuation as I reported last month. The first film streamed on Netflix and so I can only imagine the upcoming feature will arrive all the same in due time. Meanwhile, the WOWOW series that followed is happily being included in the streamer’s catalogue beginning February 6 with Golden Kamuy: The Hunt Of Prisoners In Hokkaido, with Yamazaki and actress Anna Yamada among the roster of new and returning cast. The intense scramble for the tattooed skins finally begins! The latest trailer introduces several new characters who join the series, which dives into the heart of the story. Live and shine in this thrilling survival battle for hidden […]

Toho Announces GOLDEN KAMUY Sequel

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Toho has announced a sequel to Shigeaki Kubo’s latest Meiji-era manga adaptation, Golden Kamuy. The film was adapted for the screen by Tustomu Kuroiwa and featured a cast led by Kento Yamazaki and Anna Yamada, and released in Japan cinemas back in January. Based on Satoru Noda’s award-winning Seinen manga out of Weekly Young Jump which ran from 2014 through 2022, Kubo’s Golden Kamuy hails from Credeus, Inc., the production label behind the Yamazaki-led Kingdom trilogy. Golden Kamuy is set during the aftermath of the Russo-Japanese War, and 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. The inaugural film went on to a wider release via Netflix the following May, […]

GOLDEN KAMUY Review: A Gem That Fuels The Hunt For More In Shigeaki Kubo’s New Action Epic

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5.5 min. read Manga and anime adaptations are hard to make for live-action film presentations. Difficult however they may be, they’re far from impossible, and there are plenty of examples to find online. This platform has covered quite a few of them too, and to add, that stretch continues with Shigeaki Kubo’s new flick, Golden Kamuy. Now streaming on Netflix, the film based on Satoru Noda’s Weekly Shonen Jump manga brings actor Kento Yamazaki back into the fold with a script by Kingdom franchise scribe Tsutomu Kuroiwa. The casting of Anna Yamada also lends to the atmospheric depth of Hokkaido with a circumspect treatment on the indigenous Ainu people of North Japan during the late Meiji period. For this, our story is set at the tail-end of a bloody battle during the Russo-Japanese war. Saichi Sugimoto is one of the 1st division’s fiercest soldiers, having time-and-again survived wounds that would […]

Teaser: GOLDEN KAMUY Sequel Series Lands Fall Premiere On Japan’s WOWOW

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Shigeaki Kubo’s latest manga adaptation, Golden Kamuy, has a new series in the works, and there’s a teaser online as well. The show will succeed the events of the movie which opened in January from Toho, and with Kubo joined by directors Kenji Katagiri, Ken Ochiai, and Yosuke Sato to direct their own episodes. Hailing from Credeus, Inc., the production label behind the Kento Yamazaki-led Kingdom trilogy from director Shinsuke Sato, Kubo’s 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 (Kento Yamazaki), a celebrated Imperial war hero who, along with an indigenous Ainu hunter named Asirpa (Anna Yamada), finds himself at the center of a mystery involving a band of prison escapees beholden to tattoos of a ciphered map […]

GOLDEN KAMUY Takes You Behind The Scenes With Kento Yamazaki As A Soldier In Training

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I haven’t seen Shigeaki Kubo’s new movie Golden Kamuy as it’s only just released in Japan theaters last month. Still, the distributors over there were kind enough to release a behind-the-scenes featurette showing lead actor Kento Yamazaki training for the lead role of a legendary late-Meiji era soldier. That meant reteaming with the ever accountable Yuji Shimomura, longstanding in the field of Japanese stunts and action on film and having collaborated with Yamazaki already on Shinsuke Sato’s Kingdom franchise and Netflix series “Alice In Borderland”. Serving as action director on Golden Kamuy, clearly it’s a partnership that provides both with plenty of experience with each other in the rigorous training, prep and teamwork to make the on-screen action possible. And not for nothing either. A reel like this is especially worth checking out as exemplary for the kind of rehearsals committed actors like Yamazaki are readily engaged in, especially with […]

GOLDEN KAMUY Official Teaser Signals ‘High & Low’ Director’s Latest With Kento Yamazaki In 2024!

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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 […]