The premiere date for the anime film City Hunter The Movie: Angel Dust, has been set for September 8, 2023, in theaters in Japan. Along with the announcement, a new key visual, new trailer, additional cast, and the opening theme song are also revealed.
The spotlight in the trailer falls on the newly revealed characters, Miyuki Sawashiro plays Angie, an international video creator. Angie travels to Japan to film videos of her beloved cat’s travels, but when the feline flees, she seeks assistance from the renowned City Hunter. Kenyū Horiuchi plays Shin Kaibara, leader of the drug syndicate Union Teope, who also raised Ryo from orphanhood and trained him to be a warrior.
Tomokazu Seki plays Pirarucu, a member of the assassination team known as “Wetworks,” recognized for his thoughtful and calm demeanor, and Subaru Kimura plays Espada, a warrior with a fiery temperament and communication difficulties. The three Kisugi sisters from Cat’s Eye will also make an appearance in the film.
The film’s opening theme song “Whatever Comes” is performed by Japanese rock/new-wave/pop group TM Network, who also perform the ending theme song “Get Wild”.
▍City Hunter The Movie: Angel Dust Premiere Date Trailer
▍About City Hunter
City Hunter is a manga series created by Tsukasa Hojo and was published in Weekly Shonen Jump between 1985 to 1991 with 35 volumes.
The series follows Ryo Saeba, a private detective who works to clean up Tokyo of crime, while also being a known sweeper, someone that’s always chasing pretty girls with a lax attitude. He works with his friend Makimura in a business called “City Hunter”, which does all manners of jobs so long as you contact them by writing the letters XYZ at Shinjuku.
One day Ryo’s partner Makimura is murdered and he’s left to take care of his sister, Kaori. The two hit it off despite Kaori often being offended by Ryo’s endless pursuit of other women, and they work together throughout various missions.
The series has been adapted into multiple anime series, seven films, multiple spin-off series, and even a live-action movie in 1993 starring Jackie Chan, which is very loosely based on the events of the manga in Hong Kong.
▍City Hunter The Movie: Angel Dust Anime Film Staff & Production
Original Work: City Hunter by Tsukasa Hōjō (Serialized in Shūeisha’s Shōnen Jump)
Director: Kenji Kodama
Screenplay: Yasuyuki Mutō
Character design: Kumiko Takahashi, Seigo Kitazawa
Music: Taku Iwasaki
Sound Director: Yukio Nagasaki
Animation Production: Sunrise, The Answer Studio
Distribution: Aniplex
▍City Hunter The Movie: Angel Dust Anime Film Cast
■ Ryō Saeba – CV: Akira Kamiya
■ Kaori Makimura – CV: Kazue Ikura
■ Hideyuki Makimura – CV: Hideyuki Tanaka
■ Saeko Nogami – CV: Harumi Ichiryūsai
■ Hayato Ijūin (Umibōzu) – CV: Tesshō Genda
■ Miki – CV: Mami Koyama
■ Hitomi Kisugi – CV: Keiko Toda
■ Rui Kisugi – CV: Rika Fukami
■ Ai Kisugi – CV: Chika Sakamoto
■ Pirarucu – CV: Tomokazu Seki
■ Espada – CV: Subaru Kimura
■ Angie – CV: Miyuki Sawashiro
■ Shin Kaibara – CV: Kenyū Horiuchi