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Country: Japan
Genre: Action/ Martial Arts/ Comedy
Director: Yukio Noda
Year: 1970
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Okay, you’ve got machine gun slaughters, drug wars, boat chases, death by spear gun, explosions galore, car chases, and much more. And yet, Yakuza Deka: The Assassin is pretty darned boring.
How can that be?
Let’s start with the action elements. None of them is […]
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Country: Japan
Genre: Comedy/ Drama/ Action/ Martial Arts/ Swordplay
Director: Takashi Harada
Year: 1969
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
By the third installment of the Wicked Priest series, Shikai (Tomisaburo Wakayama) has apparently overcome his aversion to violence. Before the credits even begin, Shikai has slaughtered a room full of people (probably a flashback to Wicked Priest 2, but I […]
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Country: Japan
Genre: Action/ Martial Arts/ Comedy/ Exploitation/ Pinku Eiga
Director: Teruo Ishii
Year: 1974
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Considering the fearsome reputations of star Sonny Chiba and writer/director Teruo Ishii, I expected The Executioner to be a grisly action picture with some added sleaze.
It is that to some degree, but most of all, The Executioner is a comedy.
The […]
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≡ Category: Comedy, Japan, Recommended | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Japan
Genre: Comedy
Director: Kiyoshi Saeki
Year: 1968
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Here we have yet another delightful Japanese series from the late 60s early 70s. It stars the great Tomisaburo Wakayama, most famous for the Lone Wolf and Cub series, and to a lesser extent Hanzo the Razor. Wakayama’s character in The Wicked Priest series, Mikuni Shinkai, […]
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Country: Japan
Genre: Action/ Swordplay/ Comedy/ Drama/ Pinku Eiga
Director: Yasuzo Masumura
Year: 1973
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
To my great surprise, the sequel to Hanzo The Razor - Sword Of Justice is an improvement over the original.
Hanzo The Razor - Sword Of Justice was largely a joke, if a good one, making light of Hanzo’s sexual […]
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Country: Japan
Genre: Action/ Swordplay/ Comedy/ Drama
Director: Kenji Misumi
Year: 1962
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
The Tale of Zatoichi may not be the most engaging of the Zatoichi flicks, but it is the first, and sets the pattern of the rest of the series.
Zatoichi (Shintarô Katsu) has been invited to stay at the home of Shigezô (Ryuzo Shimada), […]
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Country: Japan
Genre: Horror/ Action/ Comedy
Director: Takashi Miike
Year: 2001
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
The most important opening image of Ichi The Killer is the gears of a bicycle whirring in closeup. You can tell that the gears mesh, but they’re moving too quickly to see just how. That’s actually a pretty good metaphor for the movie.
It’s now […]
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Country: Japan
Genre: Action/ Swordplay/ Comedy/ Drama/ Pinku Eiga
Director: Kenji Misumi
Year: 1972
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Yet another delightful swordplay series from early 70s Japan, Hanzo The Razor has elements similar to both Lone Wolf & Cub and Zatoichi, but with a singularly perverse thrust.
You see, Hanzo is a lawman in Edo, Japan. In the first film […]
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Country: Japan
Genre: Action/ Swordplay/ Comedy/ Drama
Director: Kimiyoshi Yasuda
Year: 1973
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
I have to admit, I’m beginning to acquire a taste for the adventures of Zatoichi. These movies aren’t quite as accessible as the Lone Wolf & Cub series because they aren’t as bold visually, in their sound design, in their graphic depiction of […]