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MADE IN JAPAN, KICKING ASS WORLDWIDE
The team who brought you VERSUS have returned with another hard-edged battle royale featuring tough gangsters, deadly women and cybernetic penis implants! Working as a hard-to-kill mercenary in South America, ex-yakuza Shozo Iwaki (Tak Sakaguchi) is informed of the death of his gang boss father, Kenzo (Akaji Maro). Returning home after four years, Shozo discovers that his father s number-one man, Kurawaki (Shingo Tsurumi), has double-crossed and assassinated Kenzo, leaving Shozo not only in charge of what little remains of the Iwaki Family, but also burning with the desire for vengeance. After a titanic battle in which an entire building is levelled, both Shozo and Kurawaki are left barely alive, Shozo missing an arm and a leg.
Despite his debilitating wounds, the nearly superhuman Shozo clings to life, and wakes up in a mysterious medical facility with an M61 Vulcan cannon in place of his right arm, and a rocket launcher where his left leg used to be! Although confused by his new body and tormented by the pain it brings him, Shozo quickly learns to love his weaponized frame, and makes himself ready for a rematch with Kurawaki, who also has some mechanical improvements of his own.
But before that, Shozo must also deal with Tetsuo (Jun Murakami), his former best friend who s fallen into drugs and hard times, and has been coerced by the Kurawaki gang to find and kill Shozo! Nearly a match for Shozo s strength and fighting ability, Tetsuo also has a mechanical secret: his younger sister Sumire (Cay Izumi), who s been transformed into a naked weapon, using the same technology that gave Shozo his arm and leg! But can Shozo bring himself to destroy his own best friend, the only thing standing between him and final vengeance?
Co-directed by Yudai Yamaguchi and Tak Sakaguchi, who between them have created crazy, action-filled comedies like BATTLEFIELD BASEBALL, CROMARTIE HIGH SCHOOL and BE A MAN! SAMURAI SCHOOL, and featuring action direction by Yuji Shimomura (DEATH TRANCE, VERSUS, SHINOBI), special makeup effects by Yoshihiro Nishimura (TOKYO GORE POLICE, HELLDRIVER) and based on an adult comic by Ken Ishikawa, who co-created CUTIE HONEY, GETTER ROBOT and many other famous series, YAKUZA WEAPON is a wild combination of hard-boiled gangster action, manga-style comedy and splatterific special effects. Tough as nails, armed to the teeth, p*ssed-off and looking for a fight, Shozo the YAKUZA WEAPON is coming soon to kick your ass!
The team who brought you VERSUS have returned with another hard-edged battle royale featuring tough gangsters, deadly women and cybernetic penis implants! Working as a hard-to-kill mercenary in South America, ex-yakuza Shozo Iwaki (Tak Sakaguchi) is informed of the death of his gang boss father, Kenzo (Akaji Maro). Returning home after four years, Shozo discovers that his father s number-one man, Kurawaki (Shingo Tsurumi), has double-crossed and assassinated Kenzo, leaving Shozo not only in charge of what little remains of the Iwaki Family, but also burning with the desire for vengeance. After a titanic battle in which an entire building is levelled, both Shozo and Kurawaki are left barely alive, Shozo missing an arm and a leg.
Despite his debilitating wounds, the nearly superhuman Shozo clings to life, and wakes up in a mysterious medical facility with an M61 Vulcan cannon in place of his right arm, and a rocket launcher where his left leg used to be! Although confused by his new body and tormented by the pain it brings him, Shozo quickly learns to love his weaponized frame, and makes himself ready for a rematch with Kurawaki, who also has some mechanical improvements of his own.
But before that, Shozo must also deal with Tetsuo (Jun Murakami), his former best friend who s fallen into drugs and hard times, and has been coerced by the Kurawaki gang to find and kill Shozo! Nearly a match for Shozo s strength and fighting ability, Tetsuo also has a mechanical secret: his younger sister Sumire (Cay Izumi), who s been transformed into a naked weapon, using the same technology that gave Shozo his arm and leg! But can Shozo bring himself to destroy his own best friend, the only thing standing between him and final vengeance?
Co-directed by Yudai Yamaguchi and Tak Sakaguchi, who between them have created crazy, action-filled comedies like BATTLEFIELD BASEBALL, CROMARTIE HIGH SCHOOL and BE A MAN! SAMURAI SCHOOL, and featuring action direction by Yuji Shimomura (DEATH TRANCE, VERSUS, SHINOBI), special makeup effects by Yoshihiro Nishimura (TOKYO GORE POLICE, HELLDRIVER) and based on an adult comic by Ken Ishikawa, who co-created CUTIE HONEY, GETTER ROBOT and many other famous series, YAKUZA WEAPON is a wild combination of hard-boiled gangster action, manga-style comedy and splatterific special effects. Tough as nails, armed to the teeth, p*ssed-off and looking for a fight, Shozo the YAKUZA WEAPON is coming soon to kick your ass!
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DVD W/ Shingo Tsurumi, Akaji Maro, Jun Murakami
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By Michael
Format:DVD
The DVD box describes this as "hard edged" action. Simply stated, this is Japanese grindhouse.
The plot is fairly simple. Shozo (Tak Sakaguchi), who is a great fighter, but not the sharpest tack in the box, returns to Japan to discover his crime boss father has been over-thrown. He opts to get his empire back. About midway through the film he is transformed into the man you see on the cover. The action is over the top, sometimes 3 Stooges style. In an early scene a man steps on a landmine and uses it to blow himself up so he can soar through the air and land in the enemy camp.
The story includes bad hair pieces, lines from American films, school girl uniforms, pink ooze squirting from a cell phone, a nurse with Freddy's claw, and a man who dodges bullets. This is for extreme grindhouse fans who enjoy immature bloody movies. If you didn't enjoy the American "Planet Terror" or "Smokin' Aces" films, you should pass on this one. The comedy is called "manga style." It is similar to what we call "mid-brow" humor...like listening to Lou Reed, but without any political commentary. I might have to watch a few more of these films before I can decide if I really like them or not. English subtitles are used in the film and in the extra features.
Parental Guide: F-bombs, sex, and weird nudity. Excessive blood, killing, and violence.
The plot is fairly simple. Shozo (Tak Sakaguchi), who is a great fighter, but not the sharpest tack in the box, returns to Japan to discover his crime boss father has been over-thrown. He opts to get his empire back. About midway through the film he is transformed into the man you see on the cover. The action is over the top, sometimes 3 Stooges style. In an early scene a man steps on a landmine and uses it to blow himself up so he can soar through the air and land in the enemy camp.
The story includes bad hair pieces, lines from American films, school girl uniforms, pink ooze squirting from a cell phone, a nurse with Freddy's claw, and a man who dodges bullets. This is for extreme grindhouse fans who enjoy immature bloody movies. If you didn't enjoy the American "Planet Terror" or "Smokin' Aces" films, you should pass on this one. The comedy is called "manga style." It is similar to what we call "mid-brow" humor...like listening to Lou Reed, but without any political commentary. I might have to watch a few more of these films before I can decide if I really like them or not. English subtitles are used in the film and in the extra features.
Parental Guide: F-bombs, sex, and weird nudity. Excessive blood, killing, and violence.
By S. Drury
Format:Blu-ray|Amazon Verified Purchase
Yet again another crazy Japanese action bloodbath this time based on a manga book, it has all your usual silly comical characters and over the top CGI blood and violence all done quite well to an interesting story, if youre a big fan of this trend of Japanese blood splatter movies then you will certainly be entertained, the main character doesnt get his Gatling gun arm until at least half way through the movie but from then on things get interesting, there are some other cool elements too like the rockets that fire out of his knee, and there is even a scene where a naked girl is used as a weapon and rockets come out of interesting places on her body (I let you use your imagination) if you like this kind of thing no matter what its worth checking out, you also get lots of great features on the disc as an added bargain for the price!!
By Mark G.
Format:DVD
If you're like me then seeing a film is being produced by Sushi Typhoon and has been made by Tak Sakaguchi is enough to have you reaching for your wallet to part with some cash ready for their unique brand of hilarious, ultra-gory entertainment.
Initially during the opening sequence this seems to be a lot lighter on the gore than previous titles, as rather than starting with the usual over-the-top set piece, this opens with a montage that shows just what a bad-ass Shozo (Tak Sakaguchi) really is as he fights soldiers is an unnamed jungle.
Things soon get to the usual levels of ridiculousness though once Shozo uses a landmine for transportation and demonstrates the power of his spiked shoes and it looks like all is going to be as expected.
After learning of the death of his Yakuza boss father, Shozo heads back to Japan.
Whilst trying to track down the ones responsible for his father's death Shozo ends up getting a few injuries. Still not too worry, a bit of surgery and Shozo is the proud owner of some new appendages.
I really wanted to like this film, I am a big fan of all the other Sushi Typhoon productions but somehow this one just didn't hit the spot with me. The character of Shozo got a bit boring at times, he's a bit of a one trick pony and a show off who shouts that he's the best but doesn't really do anything to make me want to root for him.
It's one of those films where I really did not care who wins at the end.
It also feels a bit too drawn out in places with some scenes going on for longer than was necessary and the whole thing felt like it needed some tighter editing.
There are a few funny moments and some over the top gore, but they are spread out too thinly.... Read more ›
Initially during the opening sequence this seems to be a lot lighter on the gore than previous titles, as rather than starting with the usual over-the-top set piece, this opens with a montage that shows just what a bad-ass Shozo (Tak Sakaguchi) really is as he fights soldiers is an unnamed jungle.
Things soon get to the usual levels of ridiculousness though once Shozo uses a landmine for transportation and demonstrates the power of his spiked shoes and it looks like all is going to be as expected.
After learning of the death of his Yakuza boss father, Shozo heads back to Japan.
Whilst trying to track down the ones responsible for his father's death Shozo ends up getting a few injuries. Still not too worry, a bit of surgery and Shozo is the proud owner of some new appendages.
I really wanted to like this film, I am a big fan of all the other Sushi Typhoon productions but somehow this one just didn't hit the spot with me. The character of Shozo got a bit boring at times, he's a bit of a one trick pony and a show off who shouts that he's the best but doesn't really do anything to make me want to root for him.
It's one of those films where I really did not care who wins at the end.
It also feels a bit too drawn out in places with some scenes going on for longer than was necessary and the whole thing felt like it needed some tighter editing.
There are a few funny moments and some over the top gore, but they are spread out too thinly.... Read more ›
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