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Executioner aka Karate Executioners, (直撃! 地獄拳, Chokugeki! Jigokuken) Sonny Chiba,Yasuaki Kurata (aka Bruce Lo lol) (Remastered and Grindhouse Not Remastered versions) English Dub & Subs)
About this film
Japanese cinema carries with it a certain gravitas in the minds of many. It evokes images of great chivalry (Seven Samurai), dreams and heartbreak (Ikiru), honour and justice (Hara-Kiri) and the importance of family (Tokyo Story). Names such as Akira Kurosawa, Kenji Mizoguchi and Yasujirō Ozu loom large over its history like Mt Fuji over Japan. This isn’t just the history of Japanese cinema, this is the history of Cinema itself. Auteurs from a country renowned for its artistry. As Martin Scorsese would say “This is cinema”. Yeah, well you can forget all of that because The Executioner Collection is far from the greats of Japanese cinema, but unlike many of the aforementioned “greats”, these films are an absolute hoot. The first film in the collection, The Executioner (1974) is the more serious of the two, but not by much. Your classic trio of misfits are brought together to pull off a job that will benefit Japan but needs to be outside of the law. So it falls to a lifelong Ninja (Chiba), an ex-cop turned assassin (Satô) and a womanising thief (Gō) to pull off the dangerous task of stopping an international drug smuggling ring that uses the diplomatic immunity of one of its members…
Directors & creators
KONCAT3
Subjects
VivaChiba