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23 October 1992 (USA) moreTagline:
He shoots...he scores...he'll blow you away!Plot:
The action packed life of the professional assassin Golgo 13 (AKA Duke Togo). This guy makes James Bond look like Maxwell Smart. full summary | add synopsisUser Comments:
One of the defining films of the 80's, regardless of it being an animation. more (19 total)Cast
(Credited cast) | Kiyoshi Kobayashi | ... | Gen. T. Jefferson |
| Tetsurô Sagawa | ... | Golgo 13 |
| Gorô Naya | ... | Leonard Dawson |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| John Dantona | ... | Bishop Moretti (voice: English version) |
 | Carlos Ferro | ... | Thomas Waltham (voice: English version) |
| Michael Forest | ... | E. Young (voice: English version) |
| Eddie Frierson | ... | Gold (voice: English version) |
| Toshiko Fujita | ... | Cindy / Dr. Zed |
| Milt Jamin | ... | Albert (voice: English version) (as Milt James) |
| Steve Kramer | ... | Paco (voice: English version) |
| Joyce Kurtz | ... | Cindy (voice: English version) |
| Kerrigan Mahan | ... | Pablo, Silver (voice: English version) |
| Edward Mannix | ... | Gen. Jefferson (voice: English version) (as Ed Mannix) |
 | Michael McConnohie | ... | Leonard Dawson (voice: English version) |
| Diane Michelle | ... | Rita (voice: English version) |
| Karlyn Michelson | ... | Emily (voice: English version) |
| Edie Mirman | ... | Laura (voice: English version) |
| Reiko Mutô | ... | Laura Dawson |
| Tony Oliver | ... | Robert Dawson (voice: English version) |
| David Povall | ... | F. Garvin (voice: English version) |
| Mike Reynolds | ... | Lt. Bob Bragen (voice: English version) |
| Gregory Snegoff | ... | Duke 'Golgo 13' Togo / Snake (voice: English version) (as Greg Snegoff) |
| Kumiko Takizawa | ... | Rita |
| Jeff Winkless | ... | Informant (voice: English version) |
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View content advisory for parentsRuntime:
UK:91 min | USA:95 minCountry:
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The CG sequence with the skeletons featured on the DVD was originally omitted from the VHS versions released in the US, for reasons unknown. moreGoofs:
Factual errors: The Ford dealership Rita runs in San Francisco displays models (including the modified Ford Laser hatchback Duke Togo uses in his getaway) that were for the European market only. The only exception is the Ford Thunderbird Rita drives to pick up Duke Togo from the airport. moreQuotes:
Leonard Dawson: Silver and Gold, finish it off. I want him dead and I want him dead now! moreFAQ
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Of all of the conventions that appear in many of the retro action films, it is The Professional: Golgo 13 that mixes them all into one package.
There is the lone quiet hero, his cliched womanising, a group of codenamed mercenaries each with unique skills and mysterious histories, a man in opposition to Duke who hates him purely, and over the top action sequences throughout.
And although this is what many people would just think of as an animation, there are performances that actually seem as though they are real. We feel Golgo's loneliness and Leonard Dawson's hate and his daughter in law's pain.
It is the art of the film that really is portrayed amazingly throughout. The scene in which Duke's car speeds along the beach, or when Gold and Silver (Two of the hired mercenaries) attack him in Dawson's office building near the climax of the film are genius. It is the simplicity of the art that shows what needs to be shown and keeps the story linear, instead of making a muzzled storyline as in other action films.
This film doesn't try to make itself more than what it is. It knows that it is an action film and uses this as the foundation to work with, instead of making out it is some sort of psychological examination of killers like so many Hollywood films. It just is what it is, and does this well.
Just another note: The scene in which Gold and Silver are introduced and their violent histories are without a doubt one of the greatest and chilling scenes in cinema history.