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2nd Live-Action Golden Kamuy Film's Teaser Reveals Title, March 13 Debut

The official staff for the live-action Golden Kamuy films announced in a teaser trailer on Monday that the second film is titled Golden Kamuy: Abashiri Kangoku Shūgeki-hen (Golden Kamuy: Attack on Abashiri Prison Arc) and will open on March 13. The staff also revealed the cast, the staff list, and a key visual.

Kento Yamazaki reprises his role as Saichi Sugimoto and Anna Yamada as Asirpa.

Other cast members include:

• Gordon Maeda
• Yūma Yamoto
• Asuka Kudō
• Shuntarō Yanagi
• Ryohei Otani
• Taishi Nakagawa
• Kazuki Kitamura
• Hiroyuki Ikeuchi
• Arata Iura
• Hiroshi Tamaki
• Hiroshi Tachi

Kenji Katagiri directs the film at Credeus based on a script by returning writer Tsutomu Kuroiwa. Yutaka Yamada is also back to compose the music, Hiroshi Nakagawa and Debo Akibe serve as Ainu culture and language supervisors.

The first live-action Golden Kamuy film opened in Japan in January 2024 and topped the Japanese box office in its first weekend. The film sold 356,000 tickets for 533,848,690 yen (about US$3.69 million) in its first three days.

Netflix began streaming the first film on May 19.

Shigeaki Kubo directed the first film at production company CREDEUS. Tsutomu Kuroiwa wrote the script. Yutaka Yamada composed the music. Hiroshi Nakagawa and Debo Akibe are credited as Ainu culture advisors.

Kenji Katagiri, Ken Ochiai, and Yōsuke Satō joined the film's director Kubo on directing the follow-up live-action series. Similarly, Yoshiaki Dewa joined the film's composer Yamada for the series. Japanese rock group ACIDMAN performed the theme song "Kagayakerumono" (Those Who Shine).

Satoru Noda launched the manga in Shueisha's Young Jump magazine in 2014, and ended it in April 2022. The manga has inspired four anime seasons, and production of the anime's final arc has been green-lit.

Sources: TOHO animation's YouTube channel, Comic Natalie