90s done!
My final film was Odishon. It has been at least 15 years since I watched this on DVD. Tremendous movie.
"Kiri kiri kiri"
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inksb wrote: ↑Tue Dec 07, 2021 2:26 pmThat sounds like a really fun movie! Hope you are going to have a better day today.
The Chinese Boxer dir by Wang Yu (Jimmy Wang)
alt. title The Hammer of God
This was a treat to watch. I had a really shit day yesterday and put this on in the evening as old martial arts films are a bit of a comfort for me. For 90ish minutes I forgot about all the shit around me and just watched some crazy martial arts nonsense. Story is pretty typical for the era, evil guy shows up to challenge school, gets beat by the master, returns with group of thugs, kills master. Opens casino and town falls into downward spiral. Main character trains to take down these thugs (who know Karate!) and we get a 30 minute finale of almost non stop action. The film is very violent for the time, blood (very red paint) all over the place, brief nudity and some beautiful settings (there's a battle in the snow that's so good). Overall the choreography was very weak and rudimentary but it was 1970 so I'm more forgiving, lots of limp kick big slow overhead swings that are meant to be blocked. Fun times. 88 Films just put this out in the US on bluray which is their first official Region A release which is pretty awesome, they have two more coming over the next month or two which I'm pretty excited about too.
Bezulsqy wrote: ↑Tue Dec 07, 2021 2:42 pm That sounds like a really fun movie! Hope you are going to have a better day today.Thanks @bez. Today is better but it will probably be a rough few weeks for me, we'll see how it plays out. At least I have some movies and records to try and distract myself with
inksb wrote:@inksb hope things get better.Bezulsqy wrote: ↑Tue Dec 07, 2021 2:42 pm That sounds like a really fun movie! Hope you are going to have a better day today.Thanks @bez. Today is better but it will probably be a rough few weeks for me, we'll see how it plays out. At least I have some movies and records to try and distract myself with
ScoJo wrote:Oooohh, very nice. Killer overwrought Gil Melle score on that one @Evan.Accurately described...a company kino lorber and Warner archives are putting at 70made for tv movies
Izzat a home made blu?
EDIT: I see it's legit!
jgibbs4053 wrote: ↑Fri Dec 10, 2021 5:13 pm 896EFB66-ADEF-4537-827D-D8B2F5AE9A98.jpegIt is a classic! Enjoy!