Netflix Reveals Golden Kamuy Live-Action International Trailer & Release Date

April 24, 20243 Mins Read

On Jan. 19, 2024, the live-action movie adaptation of Golden Kamuy was released in theaters in Japan. A few months after its domestic release, the mature-rated historical action series will soon be available worldwide on Netflix.

In a new trailer uploaded by Netflix Asia, the live-action Golden Kamuy movie will make its international premiere on Netflix on May 19, four months after its initial Japanese release. The film is based on the Weekly Young Jump series by Japanese manga artist Satoru Noda. Shigeaki Kubo is the live-action film director, with Tsutomu Kuroiwa in the writer’s chair and Yutaka Yamada as the movie composer. Hiroshi Nakagawa and Deko Akibe are credited for the film’s Ainu supervision, while CREDEUS is listed as the production company. The new trailer can be seen below, along with stills from the movie.

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The film’s main cast members are as follows:

Kento Yamazaki as Saichi Sugimoto
Anna Yamada as Asirpa
Yûma Yamoto as Yoshitake Shiraishi
Gordon Maeda as Hyakunosuke Ogata
Ryôhei Ohtani as Genjirô Tanigaki
Shuntarô Yanagi as Yôhei / Kôhei Nikaido
Katsuya Takagi as Tatsûma Ushiyama
Katsumi Kiba as Shinpachi Nagakura
Hisako Ôkata as Huci
Makita Sports as Takechiyo Gotô
Asuka Kudô as Hajime Tsukishima
Debo Akibe as Asirpa’s great uncle
Hiroshi Tamaki as Tokushirô Tsurumi
Hiroshi Tachi as Toshizô Hijikata
Keisuke Horibe as Kouji Wada

Crunchyroll, which streams the anime adaptation of Golden Kamuy, lists an official description that reads, “The story takes place in the mighty Northern field of Hokkaido, the time is in the turbulent late Meiji Era. A post-war soldier Sugimoto, aka, ‘Immortal Sugimoto’ was in need of large sums of money for a particular purpose…. What awaited Sugimoto, who stepped into Hokkaido’s Gold Rush with dreams of making a fortune, was a tattoo map leading to a hidden treasure based on hints inscribed on the bodies of convicts in Abashiri Prison?! The magnificent nature of Hokkaido vs vicious convicts and the meeting with a pure Ainu girl, Ashiripa!! A survival battle for a hidden treasure hunt begins!”

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Golden Kamuy Will Also Release a Live-Action TV Series and Final Anime Season

Following the film’s successful theatrical run in Japan, a live-action TV series of Golden Kamuy featuring the same movie cast will premiere in the fall and pick up where the story left off. There are currently four seasons of the Golden Kamuy anime. A final season to conclude the series was confirmed in June 2023.