Golgo 13 (Golgo 13: The Professional)

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English: Golgo 13: The Professional

Synonyms: Golgo 13: The Professional

Japanese: ゴルゴ１３

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Type: Movie

Episodes: 1

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: May 28, 1983

Producers: Tokyo Movie Shinsha

Licensors: Discotek Media, Urban Vision

Studios: None found, add some

Source: Manga

Genres: Action, Military, Adventure, Drama, Seinen

Duration: 1 hr. 30 min.

Rating: R+ - Mild Nudity

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Ranked: #3987²

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Popularity: #3961

Members: 8,582

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After assassinating the son of business tycoon Leonard Dawson, Golgo 13 finds himself prey to the CIA and the U.S. Army, whom Dawson has personally hired to kill the assassin. As days pass by, Dawson slowly loses his sanity as he continues to plot every attempt to kill Golgo 13 even without caring about who hired the assassin to kill his son.

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Golgo 13: The Professional was one of the first anime to incorporate 3D computer graphics—a relatively new technology at the time.

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Adaptation:	Golgo 13
Sequel:	Golgo 13: Queen Bee, Golgo 13 (TV)

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Togo, Duke

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Sagawa, Tetsurou
Japanese

Dawson, Leonard

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Naya, Gorou
Japanese

Albert

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Kitamura, Kouichi
Japanese

Pablo

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Aono, Takeshi
Japanese

Snake

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Paco

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Bragan, Lt. Bob

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Dawson, Laura

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Mutou, Reiko
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Rita

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Takizawa, Kumiko
Japanese

Gold

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Macek, Carl

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Dezaki, Osamu

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Aki, Youko

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Tsuno, Gouji

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"Pray for You (プレイ・フォー・ユー)" by Cindy Wood

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"Golgo 13 and I (ゴルゴ13 and I)" by Cindy Wood

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Sep 23, 2009

1 of 1 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 7

Archaeon (All reviews)

84 people found this review helpful

I'm amazed that there's no review for this movie, especially as Golgo 13 is pretty well known in anime circles. But then again, anime that are over 25 years old don't seem to get much love these days, no matter how good or bad they are.

Golgo 13: The Professional was released in 1983, a full 7 years after the manga by Saito Takao ended serialisation. During it's run the manga saw phenomenal success in both Japan and the rest of the world, with over 200 million sales in various formats. The series was adapted into two live action movies in 1973 and 1977, both of read more

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Dec 1, 2009

1 of 1 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 9

D5 (All reviews)

17 people found this review helpful

As a person new to anime, Golgo 13: The Professional was one of the most recommended movies. It ranked in the top 5, along with Ninja Scroll, and later, Ghost in the Shell, Akira, Vampyre Hunter D, and other classics.

Over time, the graphics have come to appear a bit dated, so i would only give it 8/10 for graphics (unlike Ghost In The Shell, there doesn't seem to be a remake coming), but this is mostly in the CG sequences and, considering limits of the time, overall, it is still well presented.

However, the reason why I came to like this movie is because of read more

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Dec 5, 2015

1 of 1 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 10

herbeey (All reviews)

11 people found this review helpful

Trashy 80s action! Relentlessly visually innovative! Fun to laugh at!

Golgo 13 is the longest running manga ever. He's the Japanese James Bond, sort of. He's an assassin who tends to kill people in impossibly skillful and unpredictable ways, usually with just one shot, he's the ultimate sex machine even though he barely moves and keeps the same stern expression he always has... which is hilarious. Especially because of those trademark colossal stern eyebrows. He's cool. Too cool. Emotionless, meticulous, unchanging and amoral. He's the hyper masculine ideal. His codename is Golgo 13 but the name he goes by from day to day is Duke Togo, which seemingly everyone knows, kinda defeating the point of a fake name. Heh.

Anyway, the point of Golgo 13 is that he is unchanging. He is a fact. Whilst it's great to see how he completes his jobs, the main point of Golgo 13 is the effect he has on other people. Take the main antagonist in this film - Golgo is unchanging and emotionless whilst this character is driven by sheer emotion provoked by Golgo's actions. This film will seem pretty disjointed if you don't know the basic premise - that the antagonist's son is killed at the start of the film and as Golgo goes from job to job he is pursued by agents of the antagonist.

Know this. Golgo 13: The Professional has the most relentlessly innovative interesting visuals I've ever seen in an anime... Now, this is disputable, but I'd say moreso than even Mind Game. The sheer number of things they do with light is astonishing. ASTONISHING. The anime industry has adopted cgi which this was the first anime to use, and the postcard technique where animation turns into drawn stills was pioneered here. When the cgi comes, try to get into the mentality that you've never seen cgi in an anime before. It is awesome. I know it isn't awesome from our perspective, but just pretend that it's awesome and you'll have a blast.

This film is obsessed with reflections, presumably because the antagonist is the mirror image of Golgo, at least in the emotional department. It's a game in and of itself just to look out for the countless mirror-esque reflections shown onscreen. Whatever you do, DON'T MAKE IT A DRINKING GAME. YOU WILL NOT WIN.

This is a great film to laugh at. Gold and Silver alone are worth the ticket price. All the villains are great fun.

The music is fantastic as well. Lots of smooth jazz and otherwise just perfect music to make everything seem oh so cool.

This is a truly special and unique anime. That being said, the other anime film and tv series are definitely worth a watch too if you like this, but don't expect the same level of visual innovation.

THERE IS A GRATUITOUS RAPE SCENE. IT FINISHES AND THEN A WHILE LATER IT COMES BACK TO IT. I'M SORRY IT'S A GREAT ANIME APART FROM THAT.

(please do let me know yours feelings about this review via private message!)

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Mar 28, 2015

1 of 1 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 4

literaturenerd (All reviews)

14 people found this review helpful

Overview:

When you think of the most successful and best selling manga series of all time, you probably think of stuff like: One Piece, Bleach, Naruto, Dragonball, etc. However, there is a manga that has been running non-stop since the 1960s! That manga is Golgo 13, and it is basically unknown outside of Japan. Golgo is one of those series along with Lupin 3rd that is not just HUGE in Japan, but at the level of cultural icon, yet they are utterly irrelevant everywhere else outside of Japan. In Japan, Golgo has sold well over 200 million copies, which is more than Rurouni Kenshin, Yu Yu Hakusho, Attack on Titan, and Inuyasha...combined! Is the anime movie of this highly successful manga any good? Not really.

Golgo is a badass assassin who kills without mercy and sleeps with all the ladies. He is a smooth, sociopathic killing machine. However, Golgo never evolved outside a crude ripoff of James Bond in 50 freaking years. He is never given a background even in the manga, so it goes without saying that you learn NOTHING about the guy in the movie. It would be OK if only certain details were kept ambiguous like where he was born, how he became an assassin, why he became an assassin, but we don't even know his basic likes and dislikes, let alone his character motivation. Golgo may be GAR, but he is possibly the most flat, one dimensional character in anime history. For many viewers, this kind of makes Golgo a tad boring. We know he's going to win. We know he's going to kill his target without getting a scratch on him and he isn't going to feel bad for killing him. Eventually even something as awesome as sniping people in the head gets stale and redundant.

The plot is that Golgo kills the son of a very wealthy man, who had a mysterious hit order placed on him. The wealthy father than sends legions of guys after Golgo only for Golgo to easily kill them all. The plot in this movie is honestly pretty simplistic, apart from having one of the absolute STUPIDEST twist endings in anime history. I won't spoil it, but even M. Night would say that was head bashingly retarded!

To be honest, Golgo 13 doesn't even have the cheesy 1980s charm to it that Violence Jack has. It is honestly quite boring. Seriously. A movie about a hitman popping people in the fucking head is boring! If you want to see a Golgo movie, I would check out the live action version with Sonny Chiba! Why? Because Sonny Chiba makes everything better! He rips people's balls off, has a black belt in Ninjutsu, and has eyebrows even bushier than Leonid Brezhnev's! Golgo 13 the anime movie is a mediocre waste of time, but it is never a waste of time to see what kind of over the top performance good ol Shinichi Chiba will turn in!

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