Animation
CRYING FREEMAN: FINAL CHAPTER -- THE GUIDING LIGHT OF MEMORY (1993) is the sixth and last volume in the OAV series of Japanese anime adaptations of the "Crying Freeman" manga. A hard-hitting tale of violent criminals engaged in a brutal turf war, it is easily the best-written and most stylishly directed since the first in the series (PORTRAIT OF A KILLER). This one tells the story of a young Japanese Yakuza who takes over the Russian supply of drugs and weapons to Japan and cuts out the involvement of the Hong Kong-based 108 Dragons. Freeman, the hitman of the title and the 108 Dragons' star player, goes to Japan to investigate and gets framed for a succession of assassinations of top Yakuza bosses. The chief enemy here, Tsunaike, is aided by an icily sexy Arctic hit lady, Tanya (described as "Eskimo" in the subtitles, although she looks more Siberian), who is frequently seen in the nude in regular trysts with Tsunaike.
Directed by
Shigeyasu Yamauchi
Bin Shimada
Tsunaike (voice)
Kaneto Shiozawa
Choko Tateoka (voice)
Daisuke Gori
Boss Liu (voice)
Kyôko Terase
Tanya (voice)
Toshio Furukawa
Yo Hinomura (voice)
Kazunari Tanaka
Yakuza B (voice)
Kiyoyuki Yanada
Nikolayev (voice)
Shozo Iizuka
Watajima (voice)
Ikuya Sawaki
Dairi (voice)
Ryuji Saikachi
Maha Prajapati (voice)
Masato Hirano
Boss (voice)
Yukitoshi Hori
Onishi (voice)
Yasuhiko Kawazu
Yakuza A (voice)
Chiharu Kataishi
Emu Hino (voice)
Akiko Matsuda
Rie (voice)
Toku Nishio
Kiha Prajapati (voice)

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