Actors & Directors
- Richard Tyson
- Rez Cortez
- Adriana Agcaoili
- Brigitte Bako
- Luca Bercovici
- Chris Sarandon
Run time: 94 min.
Creator: Robert L. Levy
Price: $12.99
Review Dark Tide (Unrated) / Vidmark / Trimark:
Actors & Directors
- Daigo Kusano
- Junko Hitomi
- Goro Mutsumi
- Yoshiyuki Kuroda
- Tomisaburo Wakayama
- Akihiro Tomikawa
Review Kozure Ôkami: Jigoku e ikuzo! Daigoro:
Actors & Directors
- Sidney Poitier
- Budd Boetticher
- Judith Braun
- Charles Drake
- Alex Nicol
- Jeff Chandler
Run time: 83 min.
Creator: Marcy Klauber
List Price: $14.98
Price: $39.99
Review Red Ball Express / Universal Studios:
Release date: 1987-12-01
Run time: 50 min.
List Price: $14.99
Price: $24.99
Review An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge / The Coup de Grace / Hollywood Select:
Actors & Directors
- Kihachi Okamoto
- Shintarô Katsu
- Shin Kishida
- Masakane Yonekura
- Ayako Wakao
- Osamu Takizawa
Review Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo:The collision of Japan's two most famous cinematic swordsmen-Shintarô Katsu's blind masseur, gambler, and rascally hero Ichi and Toshiro Mifune's unnamed wandering mercenary and scruffy antihero who goes by the appellation Yojimbo (which means, simply, bodyguard)-makes this one of the most riveting chapters in Zatoichi's long-running saga. Not quite friends and not really enemies, the rival swordsmen meet in a once-peaceful village caught between rival gangs, a swarm of government spies, and a fortune in stolen gold. Director Kihachi Okamoto gives Yojimbo a marvelous ambiguity that Mifune invests with a grubby sense of honor, whether growling and drinking and stirring things up or fearlessly strolling through the climactic gang war, dispatching attackers with a swipe and a grimace. But if the story belongs to Yojimbo, the film is Zatoichi's: his minor scams and clowning demeanor hide a reluctant warrior and a tragic hero. -Sean Axmaker.
Actors & Directors
- Michiyo Aratama
- Tatsuya Nakadai
- Toshirô Mifune
- Yuzo Kayama
- Kihachi Okamoto
- Tadao Nakamaru
Review The Sword of Doom:Boasting some of the most impressive swordplay in the history of samurai epics, Sword of Doom is a visceral masterpiece of violent style and powerful substance. Illustrating the timeless adage that "an evil soul wields an evil sword," this highly stylized classic is driven by the fierce and fearsome performance of Tatsuya Nakadai as Ryunosuke, a sociopathic samurai whose soul-and sword-are vicious instruments of evil. Having mastered a highly unconventional style of fencing, Ryunosuke welcomes an exhibition match at a fencing school run by master swordsman Shimada (Toshirô Mifune, in a small but pivotal role), where he kills his opponent after promising not to. Flagrantly violating all codes of honor, Ryunosuke eventually finds himself challenged from all sides; even his own henchmen rally against him, and director Kihachi Okamoto stages confrontations that are as beautiful as they are graphically violent. As Ryunosuke descends into pure, bloodthirsty insanity, Sword of Doom ends with a freeze-frame that's unforgettably intense. -Jeff Shannon.
Actors & Directors
- Olive Carey
- W.S. Van Dyke
- Harry Carey
- Duncan Renaldo
- Mutia Omoolu
- Edwina Booth
Run time: 122 min.
Creator: Richard Schayer
List Price: $19.98
Price: $169.95
Review Trader Horn / MGM (Video & DVD):
Actors & Directors
- Jim Brown
- Kenneth More
- Yvette Mimieux
- Rod Taylor
- Peter Carsten
- Jack Cardiff
Run time: 100 min.
Creator: Wilbur Smith
List Price: $19.98
Price: $49.95
Review Dark of the Sun / MGM (Video & DVD):
Actors & Directors
- Kihachi Okamoto
- Eijirô Tono
- Keiju Kobayashi
- Michiyo Aratama
- Yûnosuke Itô
- Toshirô Mifune
Review Samurai:
Actors & Directors
- Jon Purdy
- Stephen Davies
- Martin Sheen
- F. Murray Abraham
- Don Stroud
- Catherine Hicks
Run time: 95 min.
Creator: Michael B. Druxman
Price: $14.98
Review Dillinger and Capone / New Horizons Home Video:
Actors & Directors
- Michie Azuma
- Tomisaburo Wakayama
- Yoichi Hayashi
- Akihiro Tomikawa
- Buichi Saito
- Asao Koike
Creator: Kazuo Koike
Review Kozure Ôkami: Oya no kokoro ko no kokoro:
Actors & Directors
- Tomoko Mayama
- Shigeru Tsuyuguchi
- Kenji Misumi
- Tomoo Uchida
- Tomisaburo Wakayama
- Fumio Watanabe
Creator: Kazuo Koike
Price: $24.24
Review Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance:"Child and expertise for rent," reads the banner flying from the wooden cart of rogue samurai Itto Ogami (Tomisaburo Wakayama). With his infant son and a baby carriage stocked with a veritable arsenal in tow, Ogami rents his services for 500 pieces of gold while awaiting his revenge on the corrupt clan that murdered his wife. Director Kenji Misumi draws his distinctive graphic style from the legendary manga series written by Kazuo Koike (who adapted his own work for the screen) and adds an inspired cinematic device: when Ogami enters battle, the world falls silent, literally, until his sword strikes. The fights are savage-blades slash, limbs fly, and blood spurts like geysers-yet the film relaxes in moments of serenity and tenderness as the cooing baby boy marvels at the wonder of the world. An essential of Japanese action cinema, it launched a classic six-film series. -Sean Axmaker.
Actors & Directors
- Tippi Hedren
- Kerry Jordan
- Percival Rubens
- Brian O'Shaughnessy
- John Saxon
- Rossano Brazzi
Run time: 92 min.
Creator: George Harding
List Price: $9.95
Price: $29.99
Review Mister Kingstreet's War / Tapeworm:
Actors & Directors
- Toshirô Mifune
- Kaoru Yachigusa
- Mariko Okada
- Hiroshi Inagaki
- Kuroemon Onoe
- Rentaro Mikuni
Review Musashi Miyamoto:Toshirô Mifune defines the quintessential samurai in Hiroshi Inagaki's 1954 Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto, the first feature in a trilogy based on the epic novel by Eiji Yoshikawa. As in Kurosawa's classic Seven Samurai, which appeared the same year, Mifune plays a brash and ambitious peasant who desires fame and power as a swordsman. His dreams of glory in war sour when his army is routed and he becomes hunted by the authorities, but the "tough love" attentions of a kindly but severe monk help him develop from a hot-tempered outlaw to a thoughtful swordsman. Inagaki's somber color epic is very different from the energetic action of Kurosawa's films. The sword fights and battles are practically theatrical in their presentation, staged in long takes that emphasize form and movement over flash and flamboyance. Mifune brings a sad, almost tragic quality to the samurai warrior Musashi Miyamoto, whose dedication proscribes him to a lonely life on the road. Though the film stands well on its own, its stature takes on greater significance as the first act of Inagaki's stately, contemplative epic of the professional and spiritual development of Musashi, whose training and adventures continue in Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple. -Sean Axmaker.
Actors & Directors
- Roberto Sosa
- Nicolás Echevarría
- Carlos Castañón
- Daniel Giménez Cacho
- Gerardo Villarreal
- Juan Diego
Run time: 111 min.
Creator: Xavier Robles
List Price: $9.98
Price: $29.95
Review Cabeza De Vaca / New Concorde:
Actors & Directors
- Jonathan Kaplan
- Jeff Fleury
- Tom Fergus
- Kristina Hanson (II)
- Matt Dillon
- Ellen Geer
Creator: Michael Eric Kramer
Price: $9.99
Review Over the Edge / Mntex Entertainment:Return to the pre-Internet days of 1979, when teens had KISS on their T-shirts and Led Zeppelin on their walls (wait, other than the high-waisted pants, that could be today). Richie (Matt Dillon in an electrifying debut) and Carl (Michael Kramer) are two such teens stuck in the planned community of New Granada (rural Colorado). Richie is a two-bit hood in Jackie Earle Haley (Bad News Bears) mode. Carl, his partner in mischief (breaking curfew, setting off firecrackers), comes from a more stable environment. Once a gun enters the picture, petty crime leads to tragedy and then apocalyptic revenge. Over the Edge gets the details right: the kids, the era, and their frustration with an uncomprehending adult world. At times, it almost feels like documentary, except for a few moments of high Kubrick-meets-Walter Hill drama, as when Carl gets jumped by a couple of hoods, including Vincent Spano (Baby It's You). Directed by Jonathan Kaplan (The Accused) and shot by Andrew Davis (The Fugitive), Over the Edge was unavailable for too long and deserves to find the same audience as other teen rebellion classics like co-writer Tim Hunter's River's Edge. The period-perfect soundtrack ups the ante with potent tracks from Cheap Trick, the Ramones, and the Cars. -Kathleen C. [+]Fennessy.
Actors & Directors
- Mario Machado
- John Glover
- Belinda Bauer
- John Ingle
- Irvin Kershner
- Leeza Gibbons
Review RoboCop 2:With the surprise success-both critical and commercial-of Robocop, it was inevitable that a sequel would emerge (actually, two sequels). But this follow-up lacked the dyspeptically funny vision of filmmaker Paul Verhoeven and wound up skimming the surface to repeat only the most superficial elements of the original: the big, clunky hero (played by Peter Weller), the ultra-violence (minus a dark sense of humor), and the plethora of action sequences. What plot there is deals with the corporation that runs the cops and its two-pronged attempt to squeeze every dime out of the populace and the city: create a new drug crisis (with an incredibly addictive synthetic drug the corporation manufactures, spread by a charismatic drug lord) and then attack with a bigger robot, one that eliminates Robocop at the same time. Would that they had. -Marshall Fine.
Release date: 2000-01-18
Run time: 49 min.
List Price: $5.99
Price: $24.50
Review Good Housekeeping: Los Hermanos Corsican / Simitar Ent.:
Actors & Directors
- Lysette Anthony
- Michael Ironside
- Steve Railsback
- Alan Roberts
- Harry Hamlin
- Olivia Hussey
Run time: 93 min.
Creator: Jackie Dagan
Price: $19.98
Review Save Me / Sony Pictures:
Actors & Directors
- Michie Terada
- Kimiyoshi Yasuda
- Koji Nambara
- Shintarô Katsu
- Yu Wang
- Watako Hamaki
Review Shin Zatôichi: Yabure! Tojin-ken:
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