Barnes & Noble

A pulp crime story executed with enough style to make Elmore Leonard jealous, Golgo 13: The Professional (1983) is the animated adventure of Duke Togo -- code name Golgo 13 -- the ultimate hard-boiled assassin. Cool and calculated, Togo charges outrageous fees but always hits his target. In this case the target is the son of a notorious industrial tycoon. Hunting a man with powerful friends, Togo soon finds everyone around him turning up dead. The only living exception is the target's beautiful daughter, who takes a more than friendly liking to Togo, initiating a deadly plot twist. An anime mainstay based on the popular comic book character, Golgo 13: The Professional is on a cinematic par with many live-action films of the genre and, with its creative animation techniques, set a standard for all anime to follow. Tony Nigro

All Movie Guide

Duke Togo is Golgo 13, a stone-faced, stone-cold killer for hire. Utterly amoral and usually expressionless, he is known for always getting the job done, even against impossible odds. Which is precisely what he does when he cleanly kills the son of a wealthy industrialist named Lawson on a crowded yacht with a single bullet. Duke takes on another contract against a Sicilian Mafia boss, while Lawson targets Duke to avenge the killing of his son. Thus begins a chain reaction of murder and revenge as Duke fends off the Mafia and corrupt U.S. government agents, all the while having to deal with an increasingly bizarre array of Lawson's assassins. As he battles his way to the top of Lawson's corporate tower, the wife of the slain Lawson has to wonder: Why is her father-in-law obsessed with hunting down Duke, rather than the person who hired him? ~ Emru Townsend, All Movie Guide

Animerica

It may well be anime's equivalent of Jean-Pierre Melville's 1967 Le Samouraï; a hyper-stylized character assassination of modern society as seen through a carefully polished target sight. Patrick Macias

Product Details

• UPC: 638652113603
• Source: URBAN VISION
• Sound: Dolby Digital Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround
• Language: English, Japanese
• Subtitles: English
• Time: 1:30:00
• Sales Rank: 20,736

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