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 locating a hidden cache of gold.
The new series will also see a mix of new and returning film characters, with additions of actors Hiroyuki Ikeuchi (Limbo), Maryjun Takahashi (Fly Me To The Saitama II), Yuki Sakurai (Ichikei’s Crow), and Akihisa Shiono (Kizoku Korin: Prince of Legend).
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