Am I the only person that enjoys this character?
With the recent explosion of manga and anime in the US in the last few years, I am amazed that:
1. The Professional is not on DVD
2. None of the Golgo 13 comics have been translated to english except for a few obscure graphic novels in the mid 80's and a brief run in the early 90's of about 3 issues.
Seriously, walk into any Borders books, manga outnumbers the american stuff 2:1 now. The golgo 13 comic has been running for atleast 25 years in Japan, I was at a japanese bookstore in hawaii and there were about 120 volumes of his adventures, yet this character in virtually unknown in America. It is not like the stories have a lot of complex dialog to translate, I could pretty much follow the stories in their original japanese form just by the pictures.
As for a DVD release the movie already has a dubbed track from the VHS, and not a terrible one at that. Just slap on the original Japanese track and subtitles, clean up the print, and get it out the the masses.