Toho Announces GOLDEN KAMUY Sequel
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, with a sequel series announced back in March that ran for nine episodes from Japanese broadcaster WOWOW in October. Kuroiwa also wrote the series for Kubo who shared directing duties with Kenji Katagiri, Ken Ochiai, and Yosuke Sato.
2024 was a big year for Yamazaki after Golden Kamuy, with the April release of Onmyoji Zero from director Shimako Sato from Warner Bros. Japan. Yamazaki was also feted at the 23rd edition of the New York Asian Film Festival with The Best From the East Award, adding to the ceremony of Shinsuke Sato’s fourth installment of Kingdom: Return Of The Great General from Toho, which bowed in Japan in July.
The award-winning actor will next appear in Yuichi Fukuda’s upcoming action comedy adaptation, Under Ninja, as well as the highly-anticipated third season of Netflix sci-fi survival thriller series, “Alice In Borderland”.
Details on the Golden Kamuy movie sequel remain pending. Check out the announcement below, and feel free to look at my review of the first film.
