“Golden Kamuy” live action movie to be made

It was announced on the Shueisha Online on the 19th that the popular manga/anime series “Golden Kamuy” will be made into a live-action movie, with a date to be announced in the future.

It was also announced that the 29th volume of “Golden Kamuy” will be released today.

Noda’s award winning manga series “Golden Kamuy” won the 9th Manga Taisho award and with 29 volumes currently printed in Japan. A planned volumes 30 and 31 will be released in June and July. The final chapter will be published on the 28th.

The series revolves around a soldier named Sugimoto Saichi who fought in the Russo-Japanese War in 1904 and survived with savagery and toughness. And because of his braveness, he is known as “Immortal Sugimoto”.

Because his best friend asked him before his death on the battlefield for Sugimoto to take care of his wife and children, Sugimoto hears of a story about hidden Ainu gold (the Ainu are the indigenous people of Japan). One man killed the Ainu hiding the gold and stole around Y80,000 and buried the gold somewhere in Hokkaido.

While the man was caught and thrown into Abashiri prison, he was sentenced to death and the map of where the gold was hidden was tattooed on the backs of 24 prisoners.

This was told to Sugimoto by a drunken man. When Sugimoto finds the man killed by a bear, he notices that he had a tattoo all over his back and that the story must be true.

But when the bear goes for an attack on Sugimoto, he is saved by an Ainu girl named Asirpa, a daughter of one of the Ainu men who was killed by those hunting for Ainu gold.

But as Sugimoto and Asirpa team up to find the gold, many dangerous hunters including the deadly 7th Division of the Imperial Japanese Army led by Lt. Tsurumi.