Golden Kamuy: Karafuto Pursuit Arc Adds Ayana Shiramoto and Hiroto Ōshita

The official website for Golden Kamuy: Karafuto Pursuit Arc (Golden Kamuy: Karafuto Tsuiseki-hen) announced two more cast members on Monday. It also unveiled a new key visual for the live-action series based on Satoru Noda’s manga.

Ayana Shiramoto will portray Sofia Golden Hand, and Hiroto Ōshita will play Kirawus. The series begins streaming on WOWOW on January 24.

The production also shared another promotional image. Its staff includes returning crew members and two new additions:

• Directors: returning director Kenji Katagiri and new director Masaaki Yoshimura.
• Scriptwriter: Tetsuo Kamata, who also wrote the live-action BLUE LOCK film.
• Music: returning composers Yutaka Yamada and Yoshiaki Dewa.
• Ainu language and cultural advisers: returning advisers Hiroshi Nakagawa and Debo Akibe.
• Production: CREDEUS, returning for the new series.

The first live-action Golden Kamuy film opened in Japan in January 2024, topping the Japanese box office in its opening weekend. It sold 356,000 tickets and earned 533,848,690 yen, about US$3.44 million at the source’s current conversion, in its first three days.

Netflix began streaming that film in May 2024. Its main production credits were:

• Director: Shigeaki Kubo at CREDEUS.
• Script: Tsutomu Kuroiwa.
• Music: Yutaka Yamada.
• Ainu culture advisers: Hiroshi Nakagawa and Debo Akibe.

The follow-up live-action series, Golden Kamuy -The Hunt of Prisoners in Hokkaido-, debuted in October 2024. Netflix added it in February 2025.

Kenji Katagiri, Ken Ochiai, and Yōsuke Satō joined Kubo as directors for that series. Yoshiaki Dewa joined Yamada on music, and Japanese rock group ACIDMAN performed “Kagayakerumono” (Those Who Shine), its theme song.

The second live-action film, Golden Kamuy: Attack on Abashiri Prison (Golden Kamuy: Abashiri Kangoku Shūgeki-hen), opened in Japan on March 13 at No. 3. Netflix began streaming it on July 13. The film’s account also shared a promotional image.

Kento Yamazaki returned as Saichi Sugimoto, alongside Anna Yamada as Asirpa. Three actors joined the film’s cast:

• Yū Inaba as Tokishige Usami.
• Sōkō Wada as Toshiyuki Kadokura.
• Tetta Sugimoto as Anji Toni.

Katagiri directed the second film at CREDEUS, with Kuroiwa returning to write the script. Yamada returned as composer, and Nakagawa and Akibe served as Ainu culture and language supervisors.

Rock band 10-FEET performed its theme song, “Kowarete Kieru made” (Until It Breaks and Disappears).

Noda launched Golden Kamuy in Shueisha’s Young Jump magazine in 2014 and ended it in April 2022. The manga inspired four anime seasons.

The anime’s final arc premiered on January 5. It will continue this winter with the climactic “Runaway Train” arc.