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LION-GIRL: Kurando Mitsutake’s Latest Gets Her Day In Australia Next Month!

Cinephiles planning on attending events at this year’s third Fantastic Film Festival Australia can expect some interesting perks while present. The feature line-up is another speed and especially for anyone waiting to see what Karate Kill and Maniac Driver director Kurando Mitsutake has been up to as of late, for which we can now take a gander at new stills from post-apocalyptic thriller, Lion-Girl, featuring Tori Griffiths in the lead role.

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MANIAC DRIVER Pulls Up With A Hypnotic, Vivid And Violent Trailer For Kurando Mitsutake’s Latest

I’m supposed to be on medical leave from the website, but not everyone in Team FCS has come to acquaint themselves as much with Gun Woman and Karate Kill director Kurando Mitsutake’s work as I have in the last five years just about. Alas, this is me taking one for the team to help present the official trailer for Mitsutake’s Giallo-inspired Japanese horror, Maniac Driver.

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MANIAC DRIVER Pulls Up With Fierce Premiere Poster Art For Kurando Mitsutake’s First-Ever Japanese Giallo Horror

The 31st annual Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival kicks off its five-day event on September 16, and Karate Kill and Gun Woman helmer Kurando Mitsutake is totally here for it all, indicating as much with the first official poster for his new horror, Maniac Driver. There aren’t any story details, but all we need to know is that Mitsutake is looking to make this the first-ever foray into the Japanese-Giallo genre, which is exactly the kind of energy Mitsutake appears to be matching.

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KICKIN’ IT ‘KORYU’: An Interview With KARATE KILL Star, Actor And Martial Artist, Hayate

Nowadays I’m certain my old sensei is still somewhere in my neck of the woods doing what he does, as maybe a few of my old classmates. Moreover, Karate is still something I can relate to as a sport, and even as a watchable style in action cinema; Two of the most fun examples of this, aside from the Karate Kid trilogy, obviously, are several titles that took up a great portion of my time since I began immersing myself in Asian cinema a bit more around 2002: Yang Yun-Ho’s Fighter In The Wind, and Nagasaki Shunichi’s 2007 cult hit, Kuro Obi.

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Review: KARATE KILL Earns A Black Belt in Boring Filmmakimg

The problem is that there’s no mood to make in this film with its simple plot nor at any time does the protagonist feel that time was of the essense. It showed more of Kenji silently walking from destination to another to serve as the film’s only idea of scene transition. Seriously, there was more walking than fighting in this film. That’s another sign of lazy filmmaking.

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Asami Becomes A Deadly Weapon In The New Domestic Trailer For GUN WOMAN!

Gun Woman follows a Japanese doctor who vows revenge on a crazy sadistic killer after the man murdered his loving wife. Despite the maximum security that surrounds this billionaire, the doctor finds a perfect assassination plan when he turns a young Japanese woman into the most lethal assassin the world has ever seen. This outrageous plan – his only chance for revenge – will take place at an underground facility where the killer goes to fulfil his sexual fetishes. On the night before the plan is to be executed, the woman assassin is “completed” by the doctor. She is now.. Gun Woman.

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