In this adventure, Kunioka saves the life of Manaka Takuya, a part-time freelance assassin who botches a big gun procurement assignment. Due to this incident, Manaka is suspended from the hitman association and his father, the former number one ranked hitman in Kyoto, drags him back to the family home to do chores. When Kunioka checks up on his former brother-in-arms, he finds Manaka has become domesticated but the reappearance of unioka reawakens Manaka’s fighting spirit and the young man challenges his father to a duel as part of his return to walking the path of an assassin. In order to defeat his father, however, Manaka will have to embark on intense training…
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Takuya Matsumoto
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Masayuki Ino
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Yugi Okita
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Yugo Sakamoto
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Yugo Sakamoto Director
First release August 29, 2025 · Produced in Japan · Original title フレイムユニオン 最強殺し屋伝説国岡[私闘編]
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Japan
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Original title
フレイムユニオン 最強殺し屋伝説国岡[私闘編]
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Japanese
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Japanese
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Japan · August 29, 2025
Premiere · Osaka Asian Film Festival EXPO
Japan · October 10, 2025
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