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Live-Action Golden Kamuy Series Casts Kazuki Kitamura
posted on by Anita Tai
The official X (formerly Twitter) account for the live-action adaptations of Satoru Noda's Golden Kamuy manga announced on Saturday that Kazuki Kitamura is joining the cast of the live-action series Golden Kamuy -Hokkaido Irezumi Shūjin Sōdatsu-hen- (Golden Kamuy: The Battle for the Hokkaido Tattooed Prisoners Arc).
Kitamura plays Inudō, the warden of Abashiri Prison who has a personal grudge against Toshizō Hijikata.
The nine-episode series will premiere on WOWOW on October 6 at 10:00 p.m. JST. The series will have the cast and staff from the manga's recent live-action film, and it will continue the film's story.
Kenji Katagiri, Ken Ochiai, and Yōsuke Satō join the film's director Shigeaki Kubo on directing the series. Similarly, Yoshiaki Dewa is joining the film's composer Yutaka Yamada for the series.
The series will feature a different theme song artist for every episode.
The film opened in Japan on January 19 and topped the Japanese box office in its first weekend. The film sold 356,000 tickets for 533,848,690 yen (about US$3.62 million) in its first three days.
Shigeaki Kubo directed the film at production company CREDEUS. Tsutomu Kuroiwa wrote the script. Yutaka Yamada composed the music. Hiroshi Nakagawa and Debo Akibe are credited for Ainu supervision.
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: Live-action Golden Kamuy film's X/Twitter account, Comic Natalie
