Road Rash Reviews

THE SWORDSMAN OF ALL SWORDSMEN (Yi dai jian wang) (Eureka Classics) Limited Edition Review *****

Cert 18 | 86-90 mins | 1968-79

5 Star
Revenge and Regret.
Director/writer and master of the wuxia film genre, Joseph Kuo (CINEMATIC VENGEANCE! 8 Kung Fu Classics, Ninja Death) brings one of the best in this Eureka limited edition Two disc release. Thanks to the work of the “Taiwan film classics digital restoration and value adding project”, commissioned by the Ministry of Culture. Also included in the Limited…more

BODYGUARD KIBA 1 + 2 (Eureka Classics) Special Edition 2-Disc Blu-ray Review ****-

Cert 15 | 175 mins | 1973

4 Star
The Man, The Stare, The Fist.
By 1973, director Ryûichi Takamori (Yakuza deka: Oretachi ni haka wa nai, Yakuza deka: Kyofu no doku gasu) was well established as a director in the action, crime genre, and also collaborating with Sonny Chiba (The Street Fighter Trilogy, YAKUZA WOLF 1 & 2, The Executioner Collection, THE BULLET TRAIN). Now comes these two…more

YAKUZA WOLF 1 & 2 (Eureka Classics) Special Edition Two-Disc Blu-ray Review *****

Cert 18 | 172 mins | 1972

5 Star
Binge Watch For a Sonny Day.
Nineteen-seventy-two was a busy year for the man who has already had a frantic career, in the martial arts scene. Now Sonny Chiba (The Street Fighter Trilogy, The Executioner Collection, THE BULLET TRAIN [SHINKANSEN DAIBAKUHA], The Fall of Ako Castle (AKA Swords of Vengeance)) takes a step into a modern Chow mein western and…more

KUNG FU CULT MASTER (Eureka Classics) Special Edition Blu-ray Review ****-

Cert 15 | 99 mins | 1993

4 Star
In Beauty There is Treachery.
Eureka brings us what some might say is a controversial film adaptation of Louis Cha Leung-yung‘s (Sakra, Swordsman (TV Series)) (better known by his pen name Jin Yong) novel The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber. Despite the adaption, what we have here is an hour-and-a half of Sammo Hung (Warriors Two & The Prodigal Son,…more

WHEN TAEKWONDO STRIKES (Eureka Classics) Special Edition Blu-ray Review *****

Cert 15 | 91 mins | 1973

5 Star
Cream Always Rises to the Top.
Written and directed by Feng Huang (The Angry River, Lady Whirlwind), who brings us the controversial time of occupation of Korea by Japan in the nineteen-thirties. By this time, the ‘Korean independence movement’ was fighting back at the Japanese oppression, and Japans search for their fabled leader. When Taekwondo Strikes is a martial arts…more

SAMURAI WOLF I & II (Masters of Cinema) Special Edition Blu-ray Review ****-

Cert 15 | 144 mins | 1966-67

4 Star
Death in Monochrome.
Eureka bring us two classic chambara productions from the late 1960s, from the genre’s master, writer/director Hideo Gosha (VIOLENT STREETS, Yakuza Ladies) who takes inspiration from the spaghetti western popular in the West at the time and puts his spin on the lone warrior fighting for the little people. In these two features, he makes great use of…more

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