ARROW VIDEO BOX SET RELEASE: V-Cinema Essentials: Bullets & Betrayal: The Hitman: Blood Smells Like Roses (1991)
Takanishi (Hideki Saijo) just watched his lover Reiki get killed in a Yakuza crossfire. Instead of just letting it pass, he’s in a V-Cinema movie, which means that he’s going to kill everyone who did him wrong. And because this was directed by Teruo Ishii (The Executioner, Shogun’s Joy Of Torture, Horrors of Malformed Men), that means […]
ARROW VIDEO BOX SET RELEASE: V-Cinema Essentials: Bullets & Betrayal: Female Prisoner Scorpion: Death Threat (1991)
I’ve written at length about the Female Prisoner Scorpion series, as they’re some of my favorite movies ever—Beast Stable is one of the best things the human race has made—so I wasn’t really looking forward to seeing a direct-to-video reimagining of the first movie. Man, I was wrong. Nami Matsushima (Meiko Kaji) is — was? — […]
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