Agreement:81% of 22 voters agree with slave's reviews Gender: Male Age: 31 Location: citrus heights, ca.
Bio: top 10 favortie movies (only assumptions not in ascending order):
1. ichi the killer 2. master of the flying guillotine 3. dead alive 4. matrix
5. tetsuo: the iron man 6.5 venoms 7. the thing 8. videodrome 9. story of ricky 10. the blade
5 favorite directors
1:takashi miike 2:david cronenberg 3: nam nai choi 4:Shinya Tsukamoto 5:john carpenter
Killer's Nocturne (product link) Crime / Drama "Killer's Nocture" is one of Nam Nai Choi's more serious films before he started doing the awesome weirdo films like "Seventh Curse" or "Story of Ricky". This movie is about a kid whose father is coerced toward suicide after being beaten and humiliated by a gangster leader in a (Chinese) gambling game. He now lives in total misery after a girl he fell in love with gets killed and is forced to leave the country. He must now habituate gambling and seek revenge against his father. (Forgive my silliness of telling the plot line.) The story is really good. There are moments of ridiculousness, like when the kid fights a kangaroo, and some of the death scenes are funny--violent on the level of "Seventh Curse", but funny. The action was good as well. I totally recommend this one.
Men From The Gutter (product link) Crime / Thriller This is one of the best films ever. This movie has a ton of action with a lot of blood. It's a complex yet understandable story about these cops on the hunt for a hitman who is seeking revenge against a triad gang. This film is directed by Lam Nai Choi ("Story Of Ricky"), who is now one of my all time favorite directors. I really must recommend this movie. It's fast-paced, a bit weird, with bloody and well choreographed action and editing (it won an award for best editing from some trivial movie awards thing).
A movie about an artificial samurai who is on a quest to retreive 48 of his body parts from demons with the help of the obnoxious Dororo. My feelings about this movie are ambivalent. The film does have good moments like SOME of the fight scenes, and some of the story is good, like when the artifical samurai went into a town to stop cannibalistic demons, or the part when the samurai was at infancy and being simulated by the scientist. But this movie is too pop culture-esque. First, the film drags. I'm agitated with that Dororo character, yelling and acting retarded throughout the movie. It was poorly acted. The overall story was weak and dull. I love the concept of it all, but it just lags on to the point where you just want to see the action (in which I hate). The cinematography I'm ambivalent towards. Some certain things are cool, like the infant scene because I have a thing for artifical hybridizing simulations or flesh machine fusion (through malignancy or by other means). But other parts are dull. So I'm not clear as to whether this film is a must-see or not. I like it just fine. I can only guess I was devastated because I expected better.
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this film sucked. i agree. i'm stalking you HE HEHEHEHEHEHE!
Chinese Super Ninja (product link) Martial Arts / Action/Adventure This is one of my favorite films. It's about this martial arts clan who are given a challenge by the 5 element ninjas after defeating a samurai from a rival clan. Of course the martial arts clan lose and are wiped out by the ninjas. one man survives and learns ninjistu from some old master and takes revenge. A lot of fights and all of it good. No doubt one of the best.
Avenging Warriors Of Shaolin (product link) Martial Arts / Action/Adventure Another great Venoms film (hear an echo??) about three working-class chums who all are kung fu masters who help an icon Shaolin rebel from the evil Lu Feng and his band of weirdos. Great fights and the story is tolerable.
Shaolin Challenges Ninja (product link) Martial Arts / Action/Adventure The movie that started the whole ninja thing in China (I believe). Regardeless, this is yet another great movie by Lau Kar Leung. I like the fact that they cast Japanese actors and martial artist to played the fighting opponents for Gordon Liu. All the fights were great as usual.
The Fatal Flying Guillotines [3-Disc Set] (product link) Martial Arts / Action/Adventure A ton of kung fu action, a decent story with a weird ending. I mostly liked this film because of the conception of the flying guillotines. But it's a good film overall.
The Trail Of The Broken Blade (product link) Swordplay/Sword(s) / Martial Arts Nothing beats a 60's classic Jimmy Wang Yu and Chang Cheh film. I love these films for the bloody swordfights and the great stories and cinematography and this one has it in spades.
Return Of The 5 Deadly Venoms (product link) Martial Arts / Action/Adventure Aside from "Five Deadly Venoms", this is by far the greatest Venoms film ever made (in my opinion, that is--I don't care what you like). Great kung fu action, the crippled concept is original and innovative and the story is great.
New Tales Of The Flying Fox (product link) Martial Arts / Action/Adventure I perfer the Venoms version of this movie. Yes this movie is either a rip-off of "Legend Of The Fox" or perhaps a three-years-later new version of this film. I'm not ever sure if it's based on a book. Well at any rate, the movie does have a ton of kung fu action. The story was just too dumb.
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dur it a remake, but yes this film was sadistically inflicting to the audio-visual assimilation processor.
Legendary Weapons Of China (product link) Martial Arts / Action/Adventure Other than "8 Diagram Pole Fighter", this is the best Lau Kar Leung film ever made. Great comedic story and really great fight scenes.
Heaven And Hell (product link) Martial Arts / Action/Adventure The movie is weird and the fights are good, but the movie just drags along, boring me to tears.
The One Armed Swordsman (product link) Martial Arts / Action/Adventure I love Chang Cheh's 60's wuxia pien films with Jimmy Wang Yu. They are among my favorites of the whole Chinese cinema. "One Arm" is the best of them all, with a great story and fights that are just cool.
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I agree , Jimmy Wang Yu clearly demonstrates his great acting skills and charisma in Chang Cheh's 60's wuxia, this and its sequel being the best!
Dirty Ho (product link) Martial Arts / Action/Adventure A great blend of comedy and action. I love the idea of stealth kung fu. All the fights were good.
Ichi The Killer (product link) Crime / Action/Adventure takashi miike's best film ever. what makes great cinema is offensiveness not beauiful garbage! And yes, I have no brain! and if I didn't have a brian, I couldn't write this, now could I?? :)
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Calling this Takashi Miike's best film ever is roughly akin to Uwe Boll calling Bloodrayne his best movie ever. Miike is a hack who is fawned over by people still mesmerized by the supposedly exotic nature of Japan. This movie is pure garbage.
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