Eye Candy #401 - "Golgo 13 - The Professional"

Golgo 13-The Professional:  Treading that fine line between softcore pornography and 80’s action schmaltz, this is the first of two animated films based on Duke Togo, the assassin codenamed Golgo 13 who is renowned for killing people with impossible shots made with his custom M-16.  He’s the kind of guy that will listen to his fixer talk about his next assignment all while banging some hot chick in the sauna.   Oh yeah, he’s a man’s man.  I have a fondness for Golgo 13, having once had an old Nintendo game based on the character that I remember being unbelievably hard for my 13 year old self.  I also remember he beds some chicks in it, too, so bully for him.    In the film, he assassinates the son of a powerful industrialist who then proceeds to make Duke’s life all manner of unpleasantness in his quest for revenge.  The animation, for the early 1980’s, is great.  Copious amounts of female nudity and granted it’s just a cartoon, but those are still breastesses.   And apparently every woman in Golgo’s world is at least a C-cup.  We also get profanity, rape, graphic violence, decapitation by grenade, as well as some of the earliest use of CGI in an animated film (granted it looks to be just slightly better than Dire Straits‘ “Money For Nothing“ video, but it‘s a start).  Fun for fans of the genre, but not for kids.  Woodchuck sez, “Ah, nostalgia…”