The official website for Golden Kamuy: Abashiri Kangoku Shūgeki-hen (Golden Kamuy: Attack on Abashiri Prison Arc), the second live-action film based on Satoru Noda's Golden Kamuy manga, revealed on Friday that Yū Inaba will join the film's cast as Tokishige Usami.
The film will open on March 13.
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
- Ryōhei Ōtani
- 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, and 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 in May 2024.
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 were credited as Ainu culture advisers.
Kenji Katagiri, Ken Ochiai, and Yōsuke Satō joined the film's director Kubo on directing the follow-up Golden Kamuy -The Hunt of Prisoners in Hokkaido- 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). The live-action series debuted in October 2024, and Netflix added the series on February 6.
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: Golden Kamuy: Abashiri Kangoku Shūgeki-hen film's website, Comic Natalie