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Golgo 13 Assignment Kowloon ゴルゴ13 九竜の首 (1977)
About this film
Golgo 13: Kowloon Assignment (1977) Hola, a big-budge kung fu/action movie today, something quite a bit different than the usual slapdash chopsocky fare I usually review in this genre. Not as much silliness to poke fun at, therefore, but still worth the effort to detail for no other reason that it's quite a rare movie in English markets. Here we go. Our hero (anti-hero, really) is "Golgo 13", an iconic hitman character from a variety of Japanese comics, movies, and animae. He's a mysterious hired assassin, the best of the best, and a tortured soul every bit as complicated as James Bond or Jason Bourne. The Golgo 13 nickname comes from the 13th man at Golgotha selling out Jesus (look it up). He's played perfectly by 38-year old Sonny Chiba, one of those legendary martial arts movie stars that all kung fu fans know quite well (I've reviewed him before in Sister Street Fighter and Shogun's Ninja ). Golgo 13's appearance is set in established canon through a decade of comic books--dark skin, short hair, long sideburns, cold steely eyes, and a penchant for well-cut suits and Western leather shoes. He's not a big man (Chiba himself was only 5'9" and maybe 160 pounds), but he exudes a dan…
Directors & creators
KonCATIII
Subjects
Viva Chiba