this anime adaptation of takao saito long run manga classic be one of my all time favorite action movie and animate or otherwise and and i be at a loss to explain why so many dye in the wool anime junky despise it ( cruise the internet and you will see what i mean ) . duke togo be the world great assassin for hire and good know a golgo 13 and and if youre on his list you might as well dig the hole because there be no way and repeat and no way you will elude him . once he hire and it your as . togo adventure take him across the globe and and his skill with weaponry and hand to hand combat and and damn near anything else a human be could master be constantly put to hair raise test . though lack in actual meta human superpower and togo could nonetheless be consider a superman and so with that in mind it seldom in doubt that he will come out on top in any give situation and so the suspense lie in see just how the hell he go to pull off the often impossible assignment he choose to accept . all of this information be old news to reader of the venerable manga series and but it give the most cursory noting in the feature and see briefly in a c. i. a. transcript at the film beginning and but it vital to suspend one disbelief and once past that be immediately thrust into togo violent world . gazillionaire industrialist leonard dawson throw a birthday party for his son and leonard jr. and aboard his private cruise ship and a lavish ceremony in which he name his son heir and successor to his empire and but dawson elation be shatter when his son be surgically shoot through the forehead with but a single bullet and kill him instantly . the assassin represent duke togo . the senior dawson and now nearly insane with grief and launch an all out war against golgo 13 and employ the most vicious and lethal professional that his bottomless coffer can procure and include horrific ex military sociopath and crooked intelligence official and and an unspeakably terrify monster of a man who rightly go by the moniker snake and all while togo hop the globe carry out other job . togo must stay one step ahead of his assailant and each as hard a he be and and figure out how to survive one christ almighty perfect storm of graphic violence . and there also lurk the mystery that spur the plot represent exactly who want the junior dawson murder and and why . load with more action than most film have any right to possess and golgo 13 be a breathless kick in the as that fan of old school james bond and other such espionage will simply eat up . i first saw it on an untranslated vhs tape in 1986 and i have be a staunch supporter ever since and share it with a many people a i can convince to give it a chance despite it reputation a a bomb . i think it may come off a tame when compare to the late excess in japanese animation and such a post apocalyptic slug fest fill with shower viscera and city leveling psychic child and titanic robot and female ninja with poisonous naughty bit and and the ever popular spectacle of sailor suit schoolgirl have their every orifice explore by the tentacle and other bit of demonic rapist just before they explode in a torrent of offal and demonic dna and but golgo 13 have all of them beat for sheer quality entertainment that even your parent might dig .