death trance 2

Well, I do not know about the rest of you but this was a delightfully surprising bit of news for me to find out! Tak Sakaguchi, the man we all know from popular Japanese action films of the last thirteen years such as Versus, Shinobi: Heart Under Blade, Deadball and Yakuza Weapon, recently made headlines over at Twitch surrounding speculation about a possible retirement from acting. Now think back, if you can recall, when Sakaguchi-san starred in and choreographed a film directed by co-writer and action director Yuji Shimomura where he was often seen dragging a coffin and getting into a lot of brawls at the bar with pale faced drunkards, ninjas, vampires, zombies, creepy sword twins and evil goddesses, right? Well, that film was called Death Trance, and while it wasn’t a huge cinematic masterpiece, it was a true gem for martial arts, fantasy and sci-fi fans, and especially […]

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