Berserk: Ougon Jidai-hen III - Kourin
English title: Berserk: The Golden Age Arc III - The Advent
Japanese title: ベルセルク 黄金時代篇Ⅲ 降臨
Alternative titles: Berserk Movie, Berserk Saga, Berserk: Golden Age Arc III - Descent
Type: Movie
Source: Manga
Episodes: 1
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Feb 1, 2013
Duration: 1 hr 50 min
Rating: R+ - Mild Nudity
Studios: Studio 4°C
Producers: VAP, Hakusensha, Movic, Yahoo! Japan, Lucent Pictures Entertainment, Good Smile Company, Beyond C., KDDI
Licensors: VIZ Media
Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Themes: Gore, Military, Psychological
Demographics: Seinen

The Band of the Hawk has dwindled in the year since Guts left them on his journey to forge his own destiny. Unaware of their fate, Guts returns to the Hawks—now being led by his former ally Casca—after a rumor about them passes his way. Once the saviors of the kingdom of Midland, the Band of the Hawk are now hunted as they desperately fight for their lives while plotting to free their leader, Griffith, after he was imprisoned for committing treason. But the man they save is far from the Griffith they remember.

Griffith is a shell of his former charismatic self after a year of continuous, horrific torture. No longer able to walk, speak, or even hold a sword, he has nothing but the small, strange trinket, the Crimson Behelit, that will not leave him. The entire Band of the Hawk want to rise to greatness once more, but how much are they willing to sacrifice to return to their past glory? It doesn't seem possible, but when Griffith's heart darkens and a solar eclipse blackens the sky, the Behelit offers a choice that will leave the Band of the Hawk with a blood-soaked fate that will haunt them for the rest of their days.

[Written by MAL Rewrite]