The battle for Ainu gold just got a whole lot bigger. Golden Kamuy -The Abashiri Prison Raid-, the second live-action film adaptation of Satoru Noda’s celebrated manga, is now streaming on Netflix Singapore from today, 13 July 2026. If you have a Netflix subscription, you can watch it right now.
What Is Golden Kamuy: The Abashiri Prison Raid?
Set in early 20th-century Hokkaido, Golden Kamuy follows Saichi Sugimoto — a war hero so hard to kill his enemies nicknamed him the Immortal — and young Ainu girl Asirpa, who join forces to recover a legendary cache of gold stolen from the Ainu people. The clues to its location were tattooed across 24 escaped convicts, setting off a deadly three-way race between Sugimoto’s team, the Imperial Japanese Army, and a rogue faction of Shinsengumi survivors.
This second film — subtitled The Abashiri Prison Raid — picks up as Sugimoto and Asirpa press into Hokkaido’s Abashiri Prison, Japan’s most feared correctional facility, where Noppera-Bo (the man who hid the gold in the first place) is held. It is also where Asirpa may finally learn the truth about her father.
For fans of the manga and anime, this arc is one of the most anticipated sequences in the entire series — an all-out battle inside one of the harshest environments in Meiji-era Japan, with every faction converging on the same goal.
Kento Yamazaki Returns as the Immortal Sugimoto
Kento Yamazaki — whose breakout role in Alice in Borderland on Netflix made him a household name across Asia — reprises his role as Sugimoto. Anna Yamada returns as Asirpa, and Gordon Maeda is back in the ensemble cast alongside Asuka Kudo, Shuntaro Yanagi, and Akihisa Shiono. The sequel also brings in Yū Inaba as Tokishige Usami and Sōkō Wada as Toshiyuki Kadokura, widening the faction dynamics considerably.
Director Kenji Katagiri and screenwriter Tsutomu Kuroiwa return from the first film, ensuring visual and narrative continuity. Japanese rock band 10-FEET provide the theme song, “Kowarete Kieru made” (Until It Breaks and Disappears) — a fist-pump track that fits the film’s escalating stakes perfectly.
The Abashiri Prison Arc — Why It Matters
The Abashiri arc is where Golden Kamuy’s sprawling cast truly collides. Every faction — Sugimoto, Lieutenant Tsurumi’s 7th Division, and the Hijikata Toshizo-led outlaws — has been working toward this convergence. For manga readers, seeing this on screen with a big production budget and IMAX photography is a genuine treat.
The film opened in Japanese cinemas on 13 March 2026 with IMAX screenings and sold 246,900 tickets in its first three days, earning ¥368.6 million at the domestic box office. The franchise’s blend of brutal action, dry humour, and meticulous Ainu cultural detail has won it a devoted following in Japan — and the Netflix deal puts both films squarely in front of Singapore viewers who may have missed the theatrical window.
Watch It on Netflix Singapore Now
Both films in the live-action Golden Kamuy Netflix series are now available in Singapore: the first film (-The Hunt of Prisoners in Hokkaido-) and this new sequel. If you haven’t watched the first film yet, it makes a great double-bill. The series is available with Japanese audio and English subtitles.
The manga by Satoru Noda ran in Weekly Young Jump from 2014 to 2022 and is published in English by VIZ Media, so if the films hook you, the full source material is easy to track down at local manga shops and major bookstores in Singapore.