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In a future ruled by attractive people, mutant terrorists kidnap a rich man’s daughter to claim rights for the ugly. Escaping police, the mutant leader crashes into a planet of crazy miners where no women live.Read More »

A fearless Yakuza captain’s loyalty is tested as two ambitious underbosses attempt a takeover of both his clan and a rival Yakuza gang.Read More »

Ultra serious Ko Lap and carefree Kung Kwan are expert assassins.It’s love at first sight for Kwan when he runs into the lovely Bin Yee. And Ko Lap continues to hide his love for Sau Yu, agent for him and Kwan. Unkowingly, Ko Lap executes a contract on Yee’s father.Read More »

Terror hits new heights in this “brilliant, vicious little piece of work” (twitchfilm.net) set in a remote mountain wilderness. After a man traveling alone has a steamy encounter with a beautiful stranger, the pair join up and take a detour through the hills. But they are suddenly forced to abandon their cars when an unseen sniper puts them in his crossfire. Without understanding why they are being targeted, the strangers must survive their ruthless pursuers and their harsh surroundings. King of the Hill is a frighteningly realistic thriller that “builds steadily towards a crackerjack finale” (Neil Young, The Hollywood Reporter).Read More »

Tange Sazen was at first, the character in Fubo Hayashi’s novel. Director Ito Daisuke made this one-armed, one-eyed man an nihilistic, alienated hero, representing the anarchic energy and rebellious spirit of the time. Then Yamanaka Sadao came in and made a parodic retelling of the story and completely rewrote this image of Sazen by changing him into a child-loving, openhearted, and good-natured ronin living in a tenement house with his lover. Now, as Yamanaka’s nephew, Tai Kato rewrote Sazen’s image too, and the film is imbued with satire and humor, albeit different from his uncle’s.Read More »

Yoshii, a young man who resells goods online, finds himself at the center of a series of mysterious events that put his life at risk.Read More »

In the 1980s, the only place in Hong Kong where British law did not apply was the dreaded Kowloon Walled City, an enclave given over to gangs and trafficking of all kinds.
Fleeing the powerful boss of the Triads Mr. Big, the illegal migrant Chan Lok-kwun takes refuge in Kowloon City where he is taken under the protection of Cyclone, leader of the Citadel. With the other outcasts of his clan, they will have to face the invasion of Mr. Big’s gang and protect the refuge that the fortified city has become for them.Read More »

L.A. detective Sgt. Castle and his two partners investigate the theft of a valuable Fragonard painting by a thief who pilots a helicopter.Read More »

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Jitsuroku is usually translated as “true story,” which in the yakuza movies of the seventies meant not so much historical accuracy as it did fights and blood of a new kind. The most famous of the jitsuroku yakuza movies are Kinji Fukasaku’s 5-part Battles Without Honor or Humanity, whose title neatly summarizes the change. The sixties yakuza movie had shown plenty of fights and, as effects gradually improved, increasing gore and blood spatters, but the core of the story was almost always a point of honor within the Yakuza Code and a hero with a sense of human feeling and responsibility. In the seventies, The Code disappeared along with the humane hero and we were offered only the battles and the blood.Read More »