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Golden Kamuy Live-Action Welcomes Keisuke Horibe

The film is scheduled to premiere on January 19.

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On Friday, the official Twitter account for the Golden Kamuy live-action movie announced that Keisuke Horibe will play the role of Kōji Wada in the film.

The film is scheduled to premiere on January 19.

The cast for the film includes:

  • Kento Yamazaki as Saichi Sugimoto
  • Anna Yamada as Asirpa
  • Gordon Maeda as Hyakunosuke Ogata
  • Yuma Yamoto as Yoshitake Shiraishi
  • Asuka Kudo as Hajime Tsukishima
  • Shuntaro Yanagi as Yohei and Kohei Nikaido
  • Ryohei Otani as Genjiro Tanigaki
  • Katsuya as Tatsuma Ushiyama
  • Katsumi Kiba as Shinpachi Nagakura
  • Hisako Okata as Huci
  • Makita Sports as Takechiyo Goto
  • Debo Akibe as Asirpa’s great-uncle
  • Hiroshi Tamaki as Tokushiro Tsurumi
  • Hiroshi Tachi as Toshizo Hijikata

The staff includes:

  • Director: Shigeaki Kubo
  • Script : Tsutomu Kuroiwa
  • Music Composition: Yutaka Yamada
  • Ainu Supervision: Hiroshi Nakagawa and Debo Akiba
  • Procution Company: CREDEUS

The film is based on Shigeaki Kubo’s manga, Golden Kamuy. He published the manga in Shueisha’s Young Jump magazine in 2014 and completed its run in April 2022.

Golden Kamuy received its first anime adaptation in April 2018. Later in October 2018, the second season of the anime premiered.

The third season premiered in October 2020, and the first part of season four premiered in October 2022, airing only six episodes.

Production delayed the other episode due to the passing of a main staff member of the anime on November 1.

The anime then continued its broadcast on April 3 by rebroadcasting the first episode.

Anime has already been greenlit for its final arc.

Source: Twitter