Screener Review: SAMURAI COP 2: DEADLY VENGEANCE (2016)

Considering I’m in my thirties as I wrote this, I suppose the late director Amir Shervan’s 1991 flop, Samurai Cop was something that I should already have seen by now. Well, I haven’t. Point in fact I had only seen it in December of late 2015, and long after the hype train took off stemmimg from the imminent fascination surrounding actor Mathew Karedas’s re-emergence from obscurity a few years ago. Thus, we are now brought full-circle through Cinema Epoch’s revival of the original film in its current cult-classic status to forsee the delightful arrival of director Gregory Hatanaka’s latest, Samurai Cop 2: Deadly Vengeance. Kareada, formerly Matt Hannon, returns to the fray as our title character in a story set between the timeframes of both films 25 years apart. Following the events of the first film, tragedy strikes our hero, Joe Marshall, while a corporate war among rival Yakuza gangs […]

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