Tagged:Kung Fu
Zatoichi is one of Japan’s longest running series of films and a television series set in the Edo period. The character, a blind masseur and swordmaster, was created by novelist Kan Shimozawa.
Viggo Mortensen and Michael Nouri star in this explosive action-thriller about the first American accepted into the savage brotherhood of Japan’s criminal underworld. Sent to infiltrate the American arm of the Yakuza, FBI agent Nick Davis (Mortensen) rises through the ranks of assassins and is soon adopted into the powerful Tendo crime family.
Legend of the Eight Samurai is a 1983 Japanese historical martial arts fantasy film, directed by Kinji Fukasaku. The script is adapted from a 1982 novel Shin Satomi Hakkendenby Toshio Kamata, a loose reworking of the epic serial Nans? Satomi Hakkenden by Kyokutei Bakin.
Zatoichi is one of Japan’s longest running series of films and a television series set in the Edo period. The character, a blind masseur and swordmaster, was created by novelist Kan Shimozawa.
Eric runs a martial arts school and has to save his sister from some evil Chinese gangsters. He gets some expert fighters together to get her back and runs into the Chinese gang, bad bikers, and lady ninja assassins.
Black Fist is an obscure 1975 blaxploitation film about a streetfighter who goes to work for a white gangster and a corrupt cop. The film is in public domain. Its tagline was “The Big Bad Black Dude of the Streets… He’ll bust you up, slam you down and blast you into pieces!” Cast members include Richard Lawson and Dabney Coleman.
The Moon Embracing the Sun is a South Korean TV production about a love story between King Lee Hwon (Kim Soo-Hyun) and a female shaman named Wol (Han Ga-In). Wol was born from a noble family and became the crown princess, but she was entrapped and faced execution. It is in Korean with English subtitles and I’m having a hard time describing what it is. Beautiful, I think would be the right word.
Rushing to the duel that will make him nationally famous, Nakayama Yasubei (Shintaro Katsu) encounters Tange Tenzen (Raizo Ichikawa), a young Shogunate official. The two men develop a deep friendship, one that endures even after Tenzen marries the woman that Yasubei secretly loves. But fate cuts deeper than any sword, and the two men find [...]