Starring: John Di Maggio, Denise Poirier, Carlos Ferro, Dwight Schultz, Joe Lala Directed By: Osamu Dezaki Average Rating: Audience Rating: Unrated Binding: DVD Format: Animated, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Special Edition, Subtitled, NTSC Label: Urban Vision Number of Items: 1 Region Code: 1 Release Date: April 17, 2001 Running Time: 60 minutes Theatrical Release Date: 2001
Description: Code name: Golgo 13 - Professional assassin. Target: Queen Bee - leader of dissident South American liberation army. Mission: Terminate the infamous Queen Bee before she kills a high profile presidential candidate. Problem: Queen Bee is not your average guerrilla radical. As a child, she was ripped unmercifully from her home and left to fend for herself on the streets. As a woman, cunning and powerful, she lives only for passion and revenge; her brand of honey is deadly. Once Golgo 13 discovers Queen Bee's true identity, he decides that he must step aside as a very personal feud climaxes to a tragic end that will blow you away!
With its intricate plot and pulse-pounding action, Golgo 13: Queen Bee stays true to the thrilling scenarios that have made the "Golgo 13" character such a success spanning a theatrical movie, comic books, and video games!
Amazon.com: More than 15 years after the debut of The Professional: Gogol 13 (1983), Duke Togo, the assassin-hero of Takao Saito's popular manga, returns to the screen. Queen Bee plays like the animated daydreams of a frustrated high school sophomore: lots of nudity, sex, and violence, strung together by an over-the-top, clichéd story line. A ruthless Democratic vice presidential candidate hires Gogol to murder Sonia, a.k.a. the Queen Bee, because of her ties to his weak-willed running mate. She's a big-time cocaine dealer and the assistant leader of a Marxist revolution in a small Central American country. Although she's had at least eight children by different fathers, Sonia is built like a brick guerrilla camp. Her amoral indifference to murder and her sexual passion make her fire to Gogol's ice. Gogol and Sonia have no trouble outwitting the Secret Service, U.S. law enforcement, and a rogue army unit led by a deranged Vietnam veteran. But their mutual respect and passion don't stop Gogol from fulfilling his contract. U.S. viewers can only hope Japanese audiences don't see this bloody James Bond rip-off as a realistic portrait of American politics. Rated for mature audiences ages 18 and older for graphic sex, profanity, tobacco use, and extreme violence. --Charles Solomon
Completely missed the point. This addition to the Golgo 13 name is a failure and is inferior in almost everyway to the original. The Golgo 13 character is screwed up. He is no longer the cool collective hitman. He is easily distracted, he hesitates now, and blind luck plays a factor for his target too much. The tension that is present in the original Golgo 13 is gone. I'll clarify, the build up to achieve that one almost impossible shot no longer exists.
Golgo 13 is hired to whack some chick named Queen Bee. Her past and purpose is revealed but I didn't care for the character at all. The more this movie continued the more I got aggravated. This movie is a soft core porn flick. Sex scenes are plenty and the preparation for hits are minimal.
The animation and character designs are good. The soundtrack is kind of weak. The fight scenes are ok at best but nothing spectacular or noteworthy.
This is a movie that sits in my collection but I rarely watch. Those who aren't fans of Golgo 13 shouldn't waste their time. If you never seen Golgo 13, then check out the first one The Professional. In that one he actually comes off as a Professional. This one he is more of an amatuer. But if fan service and action is your main dish. Then by all means dig in.
a must have if you are into fast killing and lot of action. With R rated movie line. This is it. This anime in particular is better than the last one as the ending in that movie is truly disappointing. This one has a lot of thrust as to why Golgo picks up the job given to him. After crying freeman if I suggest another anime to watch. This is it. Also the movie Kowloon asignment is not bad either. Classic 70's with lot of sun-guns-and-buns.
A movie about getting the job done this movie has good animation with guns, explosions, violence, sex, hitmen, and some killing for the sport of it, for example with the good ol' knife in the head.
Mr. Duke Togo Strikes Again! Golo 13 is back, this time hired to kill a female revoluntary whose as brutal and effective as himself! Full of action with a mad violent opening that has to be seen to be believed, this is a worthy sequel to "Golo 13: The Professional".
a slight improvment over the original 15 years later a sequel to Golgo 13 comes out. How does it fare overall? Well, one thing I can say is that I am surprised that people hated Queen Bee comparing it to the original. The only reason I decided to watch this was because I was told it was better than the first Golgo 13. Some anime reviewers will again hate me for this but I have to agree that Queen Bee is the better of the two. The pace of the movie was quick/to the point while at the same time including a decent plot which is what I like when it comes to anime. Sure, I would have liked the film to have been longer than 60 minutes but that doesn't take away from the overall movie. The character development of Queen Bee is interesting yet made me feel sorry for her as well. Golgo 13: Queen Bee is not oscar winning material even for anime though I did prefer the animated sequences over the original. As for the dvd, it has a few features to speak of... that's about it. Oh, be sure to watch through the end credits to see Duke Togo complete his final task.
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