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Golgo 13: The Professional Review

For its time, this is a CLASSIC.
Even for these days, in my humble opinion, this is still an entertaining movie.

Made in 1983, Golgo 13 is an animated film based off the popular Japanese comic book character of the same name. The original comic debuted in a Japanese magazine in 1969. This should clear up misconceptions and assumptions when some "uninformed" people say that this animated film is some type of rip off of "Leon: The Professional", "The Bourne Identity", "The Punisher" etc..... Golgo 13 clearly was created in 1969 so this proves that the film is not any type of rip off. It started in 1969 and has sold over 200 million copies over its time. There's even been two live action movies made and one Nintendo video game based off this popular character.

Now on to the review: The movie itself is not the greatest action film ever made nor is it the greatest animated film. Don't go into this movie expecting "The Lion King" or "Princess Mononoke." However, the movie has some good action sequences, detailed artwork, and a decent plot. In my opinion this is simply a movie that aims to entertain. Its focus is NOT to make the viewer try and "think." An example of movies requiring the viewer to think too much would be films like "Ghost in the Shell" or "Akira", or even "Perfect Blue." This however seeks to entertain and bring Duke Togo's character to life in animated format.

Even though the film is not rated, the movie is absolutely for mature audiences. It definitely would get an R-rating if it was submitted to the MPAA. There is violence and sex and therefore, if either of those components offends you then you might want to look elsewhere for entertainment. Over all, I found this timeless classic to be entertaining for both fans of the original comic book series as well as still entertain those who are new to this character.

Golgo 13: The Professional Overview

On his 62nd birthday, oil baron Leonard Dawson witnesses the public assassination of his son and heir, Robert. From this point on, Leonard becomes obsessed with revenge on the hitman—code name: GOLGO 13. Dawson spares nothing to enlist the CIA, FBI, and U.S. military in an unrelenting manhunt for his son's killer. As GOLGO's survival depends on stopping Dawson himself, the hunter and the hunted chase each other in a breathless game of kill or be killed.

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Customer Reviews

Golgo 13 - The Blueprint for many movies - Jason Black -
Its quite apparent to any movie buff, that when you watched this many HollyWood movies stole ideas from this anime. Some very funny, very 70's sex scenes in this flick, and lots of action.

This is a good example of where Hollywood steals ideas!! - T. Davis - Chicago
Golgo 13 is a timeless mature anime classic that pulls NO punches. Very stylish artwork and the main character makes James Bond like like a straight-up PUNK!
If you like classic anime this is a MUST HAVE.
Legendary.

Underrated anime cult favorite! - John Lindsey - Socorro, New Mexico USA.

Well known Oil industrialist Leonard Dawson has recently celebrated his 60th birthday on a ship and his son Robert has been shot mysteriously. It seems the hitman who killed him is known as Golgo 13 who is a very mysterious and cunning assassin as he's a professional who is a bigtime ladies man and snappy dresser, Dawson is so furious over his son's death that he decides to hire some assassins on his own and even send out the FBI after Golgo 13 as our man must fight for his own life.

Exciting, sexy and violent Japanese animated action thriller is the best movie about the popular Manga character around. This one is definitely not a kid's animated movie due to graphic bloody violence, sex and language galore and the animation is very stunning for it's time including some early use of CGI before today's computer graphics. The storyline is very nice and does have some powerful moments like the climax with a superb music score, this is one of the most underrated anime movies ever.

This DVD contains both the English dubbed and Japanese Language with English Subtitles versions with extras like interview, still gallery, trailer and trailers to other Urban Vision Entertainment releases.

Also recommended: "Fist of the North Star", "Leon", "Urotsukidoji: Legend of the Overfiend", "Wicked City", "Vampire Hunter D 1 & 2", "Ghost in The Shell 1 & 2", "Nausicca: Valley of the Wind", "Akira", "Perfect Blue", "Spriggan", "Metropolis", "The Departed", "Goodfellas" and "Casino".

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