Western Live-Action Golgo Movies On the Way • Anime UK News

News emerged at the Toronto International Film Festival that the production company Davis Film, the studio behind the movie adaptations of Crying Freeman, Silent Hill, and the Resident Evil series, has announced it has picked up the film rights for Takao Saito’s hard-boiled and violent assassin manga Golgo 13 from LEED Publishing.

Golgo 13’s story focusses on an elite assassin named Duke Togo who is without peer in his profession. It is one of the longest-running manga sagas ever, debuting in 1968 in Shogakukan’s Big Comic magazine and still being serialized to this day. This is not the first adaptation of the story as there are two live-action films, one starring Ken Takakura in 1973 and another starring Sonny Chiba in 1977 as well as multiple anime adaptattions including a series and movie, the latter that was broadcast in the UK.

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