Arrow Video’s V-Cinema Essentials: Bullets & Betrayal – Part Five: XX: BEAUTIFUL HUNTER
The final entry of our Arrow Video V-Cinema review series discusses the ninth film in the upcoming collection!
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Arrow Video’s V-Cinema Essentials: Bullets & Betrayal Review – Part Four: THE HITMAN: BLOOD SMELLS LIKE ROSES and DANGER POINT: THE ROAD TO HELL
Part four of our review series brings us well past the halfway mark!
Arrow Video’s V-Cinema Essentials: Bullets & Betrayal Review – Part One: CRIME HUNTER, and NEO-CHINPIRA
Part one of my review series is up ahead of the release of the Arrow Video: V-Cinema Essentials: Bullets & Betrayal boxset.
SAILOR CATS Review: A mad mission through time in search of the ultimate fun.
Three beautiful girls wearing sailor Moon costumes, travel through time to help Hattori Hanzo in a deadly mission that can change Japan´s history forever… Mad premise for a crazy adventure, in which all this craziness is where relies all its charming. Directed by Kanzo Matsuura back in 2011, this delightful madness keeps a perfect balance between action and comedy, having as one of its strong points, the action direction of Japanese stunt team ” Ral´C Action Group” leaded by Shigeki Hayase, having as final result, solid fight choreographies that makes all the performers look fierce and powerful screen fighters. As main difference with other similar productions, the film dispenses of filthy old abandoned warehouses, and displays a wide variety of outdoor scenarios that gives the flick a most colorful and lively set up, and a less goofy and cheap tone. The main trio is formed by Asami, Yuuki Kurata and […]
TERMINATOR ZEN KILLER Review: Ninjas from the past fighting Terminators from the future, in the most bizarre and erotic adventure you could ever imagine
A rip off of Terminator in which some evil villain from the future sends a killer cyborg to the year 2009 to kill a nerd who is supposed to be makind´s only hope, but some lady from an ancient past who can see the future, decides to send a ninja to the year 2009, to protect the nerd and save the world… And that ninja was no other than the gorgeous Asami, whom 11 years ago was at the top of her reign as queen of V-cinema, kicking butts and saving the day from evil Cyborgs and boredom. Directed by Jiro Ishikawa, The film is a really low budget product with cheap special effects and low production values, in which they managed to make a very good looking product (if you are not very demanding, of course). However, the action scenes are very well made, being one of the strongest […]
RED SWORD (2012) Review: The Red Hood Tale That They’ve Never Told You
A long time ago, there was a tribe of werewolves that had no women. Throughout history, these desperate werewolves have attacked and raped human females as a way to continue their species, but werewolves have a terrible legend that every hundred years, on a night of the red moon, a girl will be born, destined to destroy the werewolf tribe. The red hood tale that you would never tell to your children, passed through the filter of the political incorrectness of Japanese V-cinema, in a twisted tale directed by Naoyuki Tomomatsu, that turns the lovely and innocent Red Hood into an avenger, slasher of rapist werewolves, that carries a katana instead of a basket. An explosive bizarre twisted cocktail of action, horror and erotism, in which Asami portrays the character as an angel of death and justice, that fights her way through, under the excellent action direction of Shigeki Hayase […]
TRAILER: Show Aikawa Blows Up The Competition In V-Cinema's New Celebratory Gangster Thriller, 25 NIJYU-GO
Asian cinema bares numerous layers of fandom, including certain circles with a specific appreciation for Japanese cult movies. And for many of those fans, Japan’s Toei’s straight-to-video line, V-Cinema, will always hold a place in peoples’ hearts, especially for longstanding film favorite, actor Show Aikawa, who has returned once again to headline a stellar ensemble cast for the spectacular new gangster flick with a title to commemorate the celebration, 25 NIJYU-GO. The film is set to release in Japan on November 1, 2014 from director Tsutomu Kashima, and from the looks of its most recent trailer aims to push all of the necessary buttons to please the eyes…including the one that fires the rocket launcher! Watch the explosive new trailer below, as well as the latest stills and most recent behind-the-scenes featurette! H/T: 24 FPS, AsianWiki
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