Once in a lifetime comes the perfect killer.

Crying Freeman is a 1995 action film starring Mark Dacascos, Julie Condra, and Tchéky Karyo, and directed by Christophe Gans. It’s an adaptation of the best-selling manga of the same name by Kazuo Koike and Ryoichi Ikegami, drawing primarily upon the “Portrait of a Killer” arc. The film was an international co-production between Canada and France, and was filmed on location in British Columbia in October 1994.

Despite being heavily promoted by Viz Media on Animerica magazine and reprints of the Crying Freeman graphic novel, the film was never released in the United States. The movie eventually received a U.S. release via Amazon Prime streaming in November 2018.