by Actor Go Atsushi Maeda has decided to appear in the live-action movie (released on January 19, 2024) of the popular manga “Golden Kamuy” (Kin Kamu). He will play the role of Hyakunosuke Ogata and will co-star with Kento Yamazaki (Tatsusaki), who plays the main character Saichi Sugimoto, and Anna Yamada, who plays Asirpa.
The other cast members are Yuma Yamoto as Yutaka Shiraishi, Asuka Kudo as Motoi Tsukishima, and Shuntaro Yanagi as Kohei Nikaido/Yohei. ), Ryohei Otani as Genjiro Tanigaki, Katsuya as Tatsuma Ushiyama, Katsumi Kiba as Shinpachi Nagakura, Hisako Ogata as Fuchi, Makita Sports as Takechiyo Goto, Debo Akibe as Grand Uncle, and Tokushiro Tsurumi. Hiroshi Tamaki will play the role of Hiroshi Tamaki, and Hiroshi Tachi will play the role of Toshizo Hijikata.
The staff is directed by Shigeaki Kubo, who is known for movies such as “HiGH & LOW THE WORST,” and the script is written by Tsutomu Kuroiwa, who has demonstrated his skills in numerous blockbuster films such as the “Kingdom” series, and the music has also participated in the “Kingdom” series. Yutaka Yamada is in charge.
In addition, Chiba University Professor Emeritus Hiroshi Nakagawa, who supervised the Ainu language in the original and anime series, participated, and Debo Akibe, who also participated as a cast, supervised the Ainu culture and produced the “Kingdom” series. CREDEUS is in charge.
The promotional video, released for the first time, is a dynamic main video that pursues the world view of the work and takes large-scale locations in Hokkaido and across the country. A man in a military cap with a 1930s infantry rifle walking through the snowy mountains, a maker (a short sword used by the Ainu people) in the small hand of a girl, and a man with a mysterious tattoo appears.
Sugimoto (Yamazaki), Asirpa (Yamada), Ogata (Maei), Shiraishi (Yamoto), Tsurumi (Tamaki), Hijikata (Tachi) and other cast members bring the story to life with their realistic expressions and every move. You can also see action scenes that use Yamazaki’s high physical ability in the explosion scene and the deadly battle in the snowy field where bodies collide.
“Golden Kamuy” is set in Hokkaido during the Meiji era and follows Saichi Sugimoto, a former military man who survived the deadly Russo-Japanese War to obtain a large sum of money left behind by an Ainu man, and an Ainu girl named Asirpa. It is a story of working together and dreaming of getting rich quickly.
The original manga was serialized in Weekly Young Jump'' from 2014 to 2022. It became a famous work that won numerous manga awards, including theManga Award 2016,” and the cumulative circulation of the comics exceeded 25 million copies. It has also been made into a TV anime (season 1 from April 2018 to June 2018, season 2 from October 2018 to December 2018, season 3 from October 2020 to December 2020, season 4 from October 2022 to June 2013).
I loved Ogata in the original, so it was an honor to play him. I wish I could breathe life into it while making the most of manga’s charm.
Everyone’s realistic and highly reproducible characters, the locations and sets that appear in the original work, and the shooting in the great outdoors, such as snowy mountains, all have the world view of “Golden Kamuy,” and it seems they naturally lived as Ogata. However, the charm of Hyakunosuke Ogata still needs to be added to this. I’m hoping for a sequel now. Please stay tuned.
