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Country: Japan
Genre: Action/ Pinku Eiga/ Swordplay/ Martial Arts
Director: Takashi Tsuboshima
Year: 1974
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Sometimes I can be slow on the uptake. Only now do I realize that some of my very favorite Japanese movies originated from the warped pen of Kazuo Koike. There’s Lady Snowblood, Hanzo The Razor, Lone Wolf & Cub, and […]
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Country: Japan
Genre: Action/ Drama/ Swordplay/ Martial Arts
Director: Kazuo Ikehiro
Year: 1964
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Considering how simple the central conflict of Zatoichi And The Chest Of Gold is, the film can be awfully confusing.
When Zatoichi (Shintarô Katsu) happens upon a celebration, it turns out that the villagers are happy because they have managed to scrape together […]
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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: Pinku Eiga/ Action/ Exploitation
Director: Noribumi Suzuki
Year: 1973
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
For me, the most amazing aspect of Terrifying Girls High School: Lynch Law Classroom, a Pinku Eiga exploitation flick with oodles of nudity, sex and violence, is that it functions as a political allegory.
The School of Hope is the last stop in Japan’s […]
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Country: Japan
Genre: Action/ Swordplay/ Drama
Director: Tai Katô
Year: 1969
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Here we have yet another wonderful entry in the Red Peony Gambler series.
As our story begins, Red Peony Ryu (Junko Fuji) is continuing her training as a gambler so she can assume the role of leader of her clan. She does this by […]
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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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Country: Japan
Genre: Action/ Drama/ Swordplay
Director: Daisuke Itô
Year: 1970
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
One of the best bets in film is any Japanese movie from the 60s or early 70s set during either the Edo period of the Meiji period. It’s astonishing to me how consistent the acting, art design, and writing is in those flicks.
But there’s […]
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Country: Japan
Genre: Action/ Drama/ Swordplay
Director: Kimiyoshi Yasuda
Year: 1963
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
Within the first five seconds of Zatoichi On The Road, you know you’re in good hands. Director Kimiyoshi Yasuda starts the picture in darkness. You hear a sound, which you quickly identify as the shaking of gambling dice. Then a voice: “Game.” The first image […]
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Country: Japan
Genre: Action/ Swordplay/ Drama
Director: Noribumi Suzuki
Year: 1968
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
The second installment of the Red Peony Gambler series is not quite as surefooted as the first, but it recovers nicely for a powerful finish.
In the first installment of Red Peony Gambler, plot, character, and theme were almost flawlessly integrated, but that isn’t true […]