A sort of remake of Lone Wolf and Cub for the western market condensing the series in one film. In 1980, Americans David Weisman (producer) and Robert Houston (director) stumbled upon the Japanese Lone Wolf and Cub films (in turn based on a hugely successful manga comic book), and realised that while Western Audiences at the time would lap up the violent battles, they might not be ready for the Chanbara genre’s comparatively slow pacing and period politics. They decided to take the best bits of Lone Wolf and Cub parts 1 and 2, and add their own dubbing and simplified plot. Shogun Assassin was born, and is probably responsible to this day for the Chanbara movie’s arrival in the West. Best approached as an introduction to the Lone Wolf and Cub legend.

The story is of a great samurai warrior who served his Shogun honorably. The Shogun however grew paranoid as he became more and more senile. The Shogun sought to destroy all those who might stand to oppose his rule, and so he sent his ninja spies to the samurai’s home. The ninjas failed to kill the samurai, but did kill his beloved wife. From then on, the samurai swore on his honor to seek out the Shogun and avenge the death of his love. Hr roams the countryside with his toddler son taking on mercenary work for money until the final battle with the Shogun’s three Masters of Death.

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With his operations in Istanbul being continually upset by the masked patriot-cum-vigilante Iron Claw the Pirate (Demir Karahan) and his female sidekick Mine (Nebahat Cehre), the legendary super villain Fantomas (Necati Er) travels to the city intent on eliminating the pair. In the meantime, a government operative, Yilmaz (Oktar Durukan), is killed during a raid on one of Fantomas’s lairs and his brother Yildirim (Yildirim Gencer) vows revenge. Teaming up with Iron Claw, Mine and the mysterious agent Uncle (Danyal Topatan), Yildirim soon finds himself in the thick of the action. But if our heroes are going to defeat Fantomas, they must first get past his chief henchman, the hulking, metal-handed Behcet (Behcet Nacar).

There is tons of action, numerous fights and even a little belly dancing. The opening scene is not to be missed: a sultry Turkish dancer does the hoochie-koochie while the backup band (who resembles a Turkish Iron Butterfly) plays some great organ-based background music. This movie is for lovers of cult cinema and old Turkish movies.

Starring: Demir Karahan, Nebahat Çehre, Feri Cansel, Yildirim Gencer, Behçet Nacar, Ahmet Danyal Topatan & Gülgün Erdem.

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Language(s):Turkish
Subtitles:English, Greek

Plot
Laurence Fishburne plays no-nonsense LAPD narc Russell Stevens, Jr., who has worked all his life to expunge the memory of his dope-addict father, whom he saw die in a liquor-store robbery. DEA agent Jerry Carver (Charles Martin Smith) orders Stevens to work as an undercover operative on a major case. The cop is to pose as a dealer in order to get the goods on South American drug lord. Stevens is so convincing as a dealer, that he fast works his way up through the ranks and gains the trust of lawyer and narcotics dealer David Jason (Jeff Goldblum) and his sinister associates, all lackeys to the kingpin who is the target of Stevens’ assignment. Through a series of fantastic but credible circumstances, Stevens eliminates the lower echelon, getting closer to his quarry, but in the process he finds himself so deep into the sinister and seductive world of the drug trade that he may never get out. In a surprise move, and just when he is about to bring the ringleader down, the DEA pulls the plug on his assignment, because the top dealer, an influential Latin American politician, may someday be useful to the State Department. allmovie,com

Review
by Marjorie Baumgarten, Austin Chronicle
Been playing this one over in my head for a couple days now and I can’t figure out if I liked it more than I remembered, or less. It’s that kind of movie. Smart and stylish, it also has scenes of crackling violence and dramaturgy that oftentimes strains to work but, on the whole, Deep Cover is engaging, thoughtful and inventive. Bearing more than a little in common with last season’s undercover narc movie, Rush, Deep Cover also looks at the grey netherworld where right and wrong function less as abstract constructs and more as survivalist guideposts. Using the, by now, familiar strategy of sending a cop undercover amongst the drug scum, Deep Cover looks at that thin line that separates those who enforce the law and those who deviate from its strictures. Everyone’s hooked on something. Deep Cover uses the routines of this morality play to offer twists and insights into our conventional wisdom. Here the cops are black and the criminals white, the “good guys” push drugs to protect their cover, and the federal “big boys” play a fast and loose game in which shifting international allegiances are less determined by drug fighting objectives than simple butt covering. Deep Cover opens with Fishburne’s voiceover, a commentary that continues throughout. His character, John Q. Hull, shows us how, as a 10-year-old boy, he witnessed the violent death of his junkie father and his subsequent commitment to law enforcement. Tapped by a smarmy D.E.A. chief (Smith) to go deep cover and lay the groundwork for nailing a top Latin American druglord, Hull slowly allows himself to get sucked into the criminal life. Here he pairs up with lawyer-turned-white-collar-criminal, David Jason (Goldblum) who has grandiose dreams of moving from small-time player into big-time distributor. The performances are so much of what makes this movie work: from Fishburne’s masterfully controlled simmer to Goldblum’s part comic, part reptilian characterization to the slew of skillful secondary players like Williams (Lincoln from the Mod Squad, probably our culture’s first portrayal of a black undercover cop), Smith, Dillard, Sierra and Lassick. Director Duke (A Rage in Harlem and countless TV work) rivets our attention with his tightly framed shots and crisp editing that intelligently revives that bygone tradition of jump cuts (though they confusingly disappear completely midway through the movie). The stylized camerawork of Bojan Bazelli (The Rapture, The King of New York) should come as no surprise to anyone familiar with his work. And the script by Michael Tolkin (The Player, The Rapture) and Henry Bean (Internal Affairs) is almost too sharp for its own good (at times, conversations lapse into poetic riffs and characters make jarringly erudite references). But then this whole moral maze leads to a fitting conclusion in which Hull’s voiceover tosses the weight of the rhetoric back to the viewer.

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Synopsis:
Inspired by Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s The Idiot and intended as “a homage to the great writer,” this film is set in modern France rather than 19th century Russia. This is a story of Léon (Francis Huster), who has been recently released from a mental asylum and claims to be a descendant of a Hungarian prince. On his way from Hungary to France, he meets Mickey (Tchéky Karyo), a hood who has committed a successful bank robbery and plans to take brutal revenge on the brothers Venin for what they did to his girlfriend Mary (Sophie Marceau). Léon can hardly understand what Mickey is up to but he follows him everywhere and soon falls in love with Mary. This odd love triangle resolves in a tragic ending. The frantic pace of the film’s action can be compared to that of a runaway, hell-bound train. The colors and sounds go out of control, and violence abounds — all of which is intended to convey to a viewer the craziness of the time.
— (allmovie)

Review:
In “L’Amour Braque”, Étienne Roda-Gil has known how to find words, and Andrzej Zulawski the images, which revive in us a strange resonance which has the sweetness of a dream and the familiarity of a memory. And, whatever the story is that these words and images tell, the important thing is this resonance, this healthy tremor that simply tells us that a world without emotions is a world without meaning.
— Michèle Halberstadt (1985)

Product Description
ANDRZEJ ZULAWSKI’S L’Amour Braque (Limpet Love) is the story of a hideously bloody vendetta, of bonds of friendship between two men from opposite backgrounds and of love within an eternal triangle. Intended as homage to Dostoyevsky and loosely based on his novel ‘The Idiot’, L’Amour Braque is a mad love-triangle: Léon (The Prince Of Idiots), Marie (The Virgin Whore), and Mickey (The Immoral Gangster). Zulawski’s postmodern existentialist adaptation is presented with an intense sense of visual style suggestive of the hyper-realistic and chaotic world of Bande-Dessinée. Abundant with images that persist and last in memory, from start to finish the screen is filled with outbursts of energy and eruptions of emotional violence where “notions of ‘performance as madness’ are choreographed into a perverse, bloody ballet.” L’Amour Braque displays craftwork of originality and imagination in which “moments of brilliance happen under the watchful eye of a knowing master.”

AWARDS:
NOMINATIONS:
Fantasporto International Film Festival, Portugal
International Fantasy Film Award, Best Film: Andrzej Zulawski

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Language(s):French & English (commentary)
Subtitles:English (muxed), English, Italian (srt)

Synopsis:
The protagonist Chujiro, who possesses many attractive qualities, is a victim of unkind circumstances: his mother abandoned him as a child, so he had no choice but to live outside society. Even so, he grows up determined to reunite with her. Worried that she might be living in misery, he saves his money to help, only to find that she has married into wealth and social position and has no intention of seeing her outcast Yakuza son…

Review:

With good script for a classic tale, & well acted, In Search of Mother (Mabuto no haha, 1962) is quite a good film from a fine director, Tai Kato, plus a soundtrack that is often amazing, especially for poetic passages.

In Search of MotherIn Search of MotherIt’s occasionally been shown under alternate titles including Searching for Mother, Long-sought Mother, Mother of My Memory, The Image of My Mother & Love for a Mother. It combines jidai-geki (period action film) with haha-mono (mother tales).

It’s a remake of a silent film classic Memories of Mother (Banba-no-Chutaro: Mabuta no haha, 1931) starring Chiezo Kataoka.

The play premiered early in 1931, on the kabuki stage, & was a film by year’s end. It was based on the actual life of playwright Shin Hasegawa (1884-1963). The play is still frequently launched, & the story has even found its way into manga comics & a video game.

The film begins with an action scene which simultaneously establishes two friends’ characters, Chutaro (Kinnosuke Nakamura) the orphaned wanderer or toseinin, & Hanji (Hiroki Matsukata) a young naive gangster or yakuza.

After an attempted revenge for Hanji’s oyabun (gamblers’ godfather), the two men hit the road in separate directions, pursued by by angry yakuza.

In Search of MotherHanji returns to his home village, but has inadvertently led some very bad guys to the home of his mother & his sister Onui (Hitomi Nakahara). His desire to leave the yakuza world & do right for his mother seems likely to be foiled, given the repurcusions of his former actions.

Orphaned Banba-no-Chutaro in time turns up in the same village, full of eagerness to fight Hanji’s battle so Hanji can enjoy, please, & appreciate the family which Chutaro does not possess & so cannot displease.

Soulful Chutaro is despised by Hanji’s mother, as she assumes he’s been the bad influence on her son. “If Hanji had decent friends, he wouldn’t be in this trouble.” But Hanji’s sister realizes what a true friend Chutaro has been to her brother, & before you know it, Onui’s in love.

In Search of MotherWith plenty of yakuza mayhem & swordplay, interspersed with the sad tales of Hanji disappointing his mother & Chutaro seeking the mother from whom he was separated at age five, it balances nicely for action-packed & touching drama.

Chujiro’s life as a toseinin drifting from place to place has permitted him to search always for his mom. This could easily have been a children’s story, but is too well played to lose adult interest.

He strives to be a filial young man to a mother he barely recalls, & this desire makes him susceptible to the needs of any woman around his mother’s age. This defines his heroic actions as well as his tears.

Chutaro meets an old blind woman who plays shamisen on the roadside. She once had a child, when she was a young woman, but gave him away & lives in regret. Her story heightens the young man’s inate chivalry.

In Search of MotherHe arrives in Edo with the Ioka gang still after his life. But big city yakuza at least have no interest in helping bumpkin gangsters. He hooks up with a gambling ronin, Komata Yasuke (Isao Yamagata), who has had a lucky evening gambling.

Through Komata’s flunky friend Kingoro (Kensaku Hara), the ronin is able to offer his services as yojimbo (bodyguard) to the Ioka gang.

Time passes & Chutaro has become somewhat settled as a town knight & gambler. One day he intervenes in behalf of Otora (Sadako Sawamura), a diseased-looking old beggar prostitute.

She horrifies Kingoro, who beat her up until Chutaro stopped him, always eager to assist down-&-out women his mother’s age. But it means Kingoro’s already budding dislike for the chivalrous youth increases in his heart.

Otora’s story seems much too grim for a youth-oriented film, but director Tai Kato treats even youth tales with a certain maturity.

In Search of MotherOhama (Michiyo Kogure) in contrast is a luckier woman, who runs an inn. But Otora reveals that Ohama is a cruel person who abandoned her son, & Chutaro’s interest in Ohama as possibly his own mother increases.

Ohama is trying to marry off a daughter for purposes of scaling the social ladder. Escaping one’s social status for one better is not an easy thing in a rigid class system, & she must herseolf appear to be of good reputation if she’s to have a marketable daughter.

She thus coldly turns her back on friends of her humble beginnings, & is not at all willing to confess she abandoned a son.

Her cruelty breaks Chutaro’s heart, & she’s almost melted by it, but will not bend. She has no desire to acknowledge a yakuza son. He leaves her, saying, “Madame, I will not come here again.”

Chutaro JizoHe departs with his lifelong quest no missing from his heart, without even his faint memories & idealized inventions of his life as a five year old with a mother he loved. He presently regrets only that he could not meet his sister before going away forever.

Too late Ohara regrets sending him away, chastised by her own daughter who would love to know her brother. Realizing her terrible error, she & her daughter set off to stop Chutaro.

On the road outside of Edo, Chutaro meets the ronin scum Kingoro, an abject loser who has joined the bumpkin yakuza who are after Chutaro’s life.

He asks these rural gangsters if they have mothers. When they say they do not, he kills them more easily. Lastly he faces the better-trained ronin, then having proven his own savage nature, feels he must evade his own mother & sister who are trying to find him in the night, calling out for his return.

His shame as a gambler, of having killed men, won’t let him come forth from hiding. The tragedy of this beautiful little film may well be maudlin melodrama, but it’s so effective, & Kinnosuke as Chutaro with tears in his eyes truly evokes depths of sorrow.

This tale has long impressed itself upon the Japanese imagination, & there is even a “Chutaro Jizo” god erected by Shin Hasegawa in 1958 at Renge-ji (Red Lotus Temple) in Kyoto, to which people still make pilgrimages in order to pray for reuinions with a lost parent or other loved one.

— Paghat (Weird Wild Realm.com)

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Subtitles:English, Russian (muxed)

Synopsis:
A rebellious Korean artist tests the limits of his sadistic patron, an omnipotent feudal Japanese lord. Yoshihide demands a commission to paint screens of the Hell which he sees the egotistical lord’s peasants suffer. Such a public display will challenge the uncaring upper class’ obsession with their own personal beauty. With Chinese and Buddhist influences at a peak in 11th century Japan, the daimyo Horikawa wanted a mural of Buddhist paradise. As Yoshihide’s ghastly artworks appear to come to life, the painter and his patron’s mutual racism also take their toll.

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Subtitles:English (srt)

Synopsis:

A homicidal maniac is on the loose, killing motorists at random in his “death car” – after losing his brother to the twisted assassin “Skull”, Rick Benten becomes a vigilante, and takes it upon himself to hunt down the reckless drivers that fill the streets at night. Being a master mechanic, Rick spends his time converting his pickup truck into an armed and dangerous vehicle – with speed to take on the fastest car, and strength to make sure in a one-on-one situation, he will be the only survivor. The cops soon find out about the vigilante known only as the “Gladiator” and do all they can to catch him before his citizen’s arrests go one step too far – but will they find the Gladiator before the Gladiator finds Skull? When the two finally meet, it’s a duel to the death and maybe an end to Rick’s career as the vigilante.

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Subtitles:Russian (muxed)

Synopsis:
Dead End Run is an hour length collection of three short films by Japanese visual genius Ishii Sogo. Starring three of Japan’s hippest and most talented actors: Yusuke Iseya (Casshern,) Masatoshi Nagase (Electric Dragon 80,000V) and the extraordinary cool Tadanobu Asano (Ichi the Killer, Electric Dragon 80,000v.) Each short focuses on the protagonists running away from a threat, be it a hitman or the police then finding themselves stuck in a dead end.

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Hanzo Itami is an incorruptible Edo officer who learns that an infamous killer has fled from his island prison. Hanzo begins tracking him down using his unorthodox interrogation techniques.

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Subtitles:EnglİSH

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (Spanish: Tráiganme la cabeza de Alfredo García) is a 1974 American cult action film directed by Sam Peckinpah and featuring Warren Oates.

Made in Mexico on a low budget after the commercial failure of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973), Peckinpah claimed that, of all his films, Alfredo García was the only one released as he had intended. The film was a box-office and critical failure at the time, but has gained a new following and stature in the decades since.

There are two audio commentaries with this posting:
1) with Writer-Producer Gordon Dawson and Film Historian Nick Redman
2) with Film Historians Paul Seydor, Garner Simmons, David Weddle, and Nick Redman

SYNOPSIS:
An American bartender and his prostitute girlfriend go on a road trip through the Mexican underworld to collect a $1 million bounty on the head of a dead gigolo.

Development:
Director Sam Peckinpah was working on The Ballad of Cable Hogue when screenwriter and long-time friend Frank Kowalski told him an idea for a film: “I got a great title: ‘Bring Me the Head of…,’ – and he had some other name – ‘and the hook is that the guy is already dead’.”[1] Peckinpah loved it and began writing on it then and also in England while making Straw Dogs. He went on to write the shooting screenplay with Gordon Dawson. Producer Martin Baum had formed his own independent production company, Optimus Productions, and had a deal with United Artists. Peckinpah approached him with 25 pages of the film’s script. Baum read it and liked it. United Artists agreed to pay Peckinpah to write the script but he told Baum that he did not want any money for it because he owed him one. Peckinpah told Baum that if United Artists liked the script then they could pay him.

Peckinpah started pre-production in mid-August 1973 in Mexico City. With the exception of a few key people, the crew was entirely Mexicans. He hired director of photography Alex Phillips, Jr., one of Mexico’s premiere cameramen. They bonded over a dislike for wide-angle lenses, an admiration for zooms and multiple camera setups. Peckinpah told him, “I make very few takes, but I shoot a lot of film because I like to change angles. I shoot with editing in the back of my mind”. While scouting locations, he relied extensively on his gut instinct and desire to portray a gritty, realistic vision he had of Mexico. He spent a lot of time searching for the right bar that would be Bennie’s workplace. Peckinpah finally discovered a place in the Plaza Garibaldi known as “Tlaque-Paque”. He looked around and said, “this is dressed. This is for real”. Mexican members of the crew told him that the bar’s owner had an infamous reputation and it was rumored that he once killed a woman there, serving very little jail time because he bribed the right people in positions of power.

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia went into production in late September 1973 and in an October issue of Variety magazine, Peckinpah was quoted as saying, “For me, Hollywood no longer exists. It’s past history. I’ve decided to stay in Mexico because I believe I can make my pictures with greater freedom from here”. This upset the Motion Picture and Television Unions and they openly censured the director for his statement at their National Conference in Detroit. They also threatened Alfredo Garcia with union boycotts upon its release, labeling it a “runaway” production. In his defense, Peckinpah claimed that he was misquoted. Before the film was to be released, the unions relented on their boycott threat.

As principal photography continued into the month of December, the demands – both physical and mental – were taking their toll on the cast and crew. To help relieve the tension, Peckinpah and the producers bought out a local bar and threw a surprise party. Principal photography ended three days before Christmas and the director took a week off before supervising the editing of the film.

Reception:
On its release in 1974, Bring Me the Head of Alfredo García was disapproved by viewers and critics, and failed at the box office. However, the film has since found a contemporary audience, maintaining an 81 percent fresh rating at Rotten Tomatoes. Years later Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia was included as one of the choices in the book The Fifty Worst Films of All Time.

Some film critics (including Michael Medved) argue that Bring Me the Head of Alfredo García is one of the worst films ever made, while others (among them Roger Ebert and Slant Magazine) consider it a masterpiece. Michael Sragow of New York magazine called it “a catastrophe so huge that those who once ranked Peckinpah with Hemingway may now invoke Mickey Spillane”.
~Wiki

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Subtitles:English French Spanish

Quote:
White Heat (1949) is one of the top classic crime-heist dramas of the post-war period, and one of the last of Warner Bros’ gritty crime films in its era. White Heat is an entertaining, fascinating and hypnotic portrait of a flamboyant, mother-dominated and fixated, epileptic and psychotic killer, who often spouts crude bits of humor. The dynamic film, with both film noir and documentary-style elements, is characterized by an increased level of violence and brutality along with classical Greek elements.

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The melodramatic, Freudian-based crime film is enhanced by the musical score of Max Steiner and the frantic pacing brilliantly served up by the director. The three most memorable scenes include:

* the lap-sitting scene portraying the gangster’s unhealthy affection toward his mother who soothes him during bouts of migraine headaches
* the prison mess scene when the crazed gangster hears of his mother’s death and goes beserk
* the apocalyptic finale as he dies in a blaze of glory at the “top of the world”.

The fast-paced, powerful Warner Bros. film revived the gangster film in the last year of the decade – and it was 50 year-old James Cagney’s comeback-return to his popular, ‘tough-guy’ gangster image at the studio with a dynamite, all-stops-out performance. His last film with Warner Bros. was seven years earlier – Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942). This was Cagney’s first gangster film role in ten years – his previous role was in The Roaring Twenties (1939) with the same director – Raoul Walsh. (Walsh had also directed Cagney in two other films: Strawberry Blonde (1941) and A Lion is in the Streets (1953). He also helmed one of the best films in the gangster genre – High Sierra (1941) starring Humphrey Bogart.) And before that, Cagney had appeared in one of the earliest, most definitive gangster films for Warners – Public Enemy (1931), as well as an appearance in Angels With Dirty Faces (1938).

After this pivotal 1949 film in Cagney’s career as an archetypal, pugnacious gangster, he never achieved the same apotheosis, starring in such films as Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (1950), the musical bio Love Me or Leave Me (1955), the comedy-drama Mister Roberts (1955), the Cold War comedy One Two Three (1961), and after a long 20 year hiatus, Ragtime (1981).
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In the famous, climactic scene ending the film, he defiantly scrambles higher and higher around a holding tank with curving stairs circling the steel bulbous sides. At the top of the sphere, he even gleefully fires upon Ryley as he turns himself over to the police. Cody is the only one left, cornered high atop one of the gas storage tanks at a dead end – he taunts the cops with a cocky retort: “Come and get me.” Jarrett laughs maniacally as he is repeatedly wounded while standing astride the globe-like tank – or on top of the world itself – by Fallon’s high-powered, scoped-rifle fire. As he recocks his gun, Fallon quizzically wonders about the mirth of the villain as he self-destructs: “What’s holding him up?”

Rather than giving in and submitting to the lawmen, a cackling, psychotically-mad Cody staggers around on the top of the platform as more bullets tear into him. Now out of his mind, he deliberately empties his pistol into the giant gas-tanks of the chemical plant to ignite them and immolate himself. The men below run from the flaming area, fearing for their lives. And then Cody hysterically lifts his face skyward, holds out both arms, and cries out to his dead mother that he has fulfilled her oft-repeated advice to him – immortality:

Made it, Ma! Top of the world!

With defiance, he dies in the tremendous ‘white heat’ explosion – a mushroom cloud, apocalyptic-style blast that shakes the earth. Following Cody’s suicidal, angry death, an emotionless, unsympathetic Fallon provides an additional epitaph as clouds of smoke billow up and firelight flickers on his face:

Evans: Cody Jarrett.
Fallon: He finally got to the top of the world. And it blew right up in his face.

The flames are extinguished by giant fire hoses as THE END zooms out from the center of the screen.

[There are a number of films that have paid homage to White Heat’s ending, including director Robert Wise’s crime caper Odds Against Tomorrow (1959), and Fade to Black (1980).]

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Colors is a 1988 American police procedural crime film starring Sean Penn and Robert Duvall, and directed by Dennis Hopper. The story takes place in South Central, North West and East Los Angeles, and centers on Bob Hodges (Duvall), an experienced Los Angeles Police Department CRASH Police Officer III, and his rookie partner, Danny McGavin (Penn) who try to mitigate the gang violence between the Bloods, the Crips, and the Hispanic street gangs. Colors relaunched Hopper as a director 18 years after Easy Rider and inspired discussion over its depiction of gang life and gang violence.

The movie was filmed entirely in Los Angeles in 1987. The original script by Richard Di Lello took place in Chicago and was more about drug dealing than gang members. Dennis Hopper ordered changes, so Michael Schiffer was hired and the setting was changed to Los Angeles and the focus of the story became more about the world of gang members.

Real gang members were hired as guardians as well as actors by producer Robert H. Solo. Two of them were shot during filming.

On April 2, 1987, Sean Penn was arrested for punching an extra on the set of this film who was taking photos of Penn without permission. Penn was sentenced to 33 days in jail for this assault.

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Language(s):English, Spanish
Subtitles:English German Italian Spanish French Dutch Swedish Norwegian Danish

The adventures and the exploits of notorious English thief and prison-breaker Jack Sheppard in 1720s London.

http://nitroflare.com/view/1C78891D5BE1E7E/WheresJack.part1.rar
http://nitroflare.com/view/A25BCB96CBD13B8/WheresJack.part2.rar

Language(s):English
Subtitles:None

Plot Synopsis
Discharged from a tour of duty in VietNam, a group of soldiers drives across the
US to take in the nation they fought for. The country, however, doesn’t want to
see them, and after being hustled by an attractive hitchhiker, their car breaks
down in a small town that treats them like dirt. Their revenge makes Rambo’s
look like a gentile tea party with a stunningly violent climax that you need to
see to believe.

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Language(s):English
Subtitles:none

SYNOPSIS: While driving through the Arizona desert, Albuquerque based independent trucker Martin Penwald – who goes by the handle “Rubber Duck” – along with his fellow truckers “Pig Pen” and “Spider Mike”, are entrapped by unscrupulous Sheriff Lyle “Cottonmouth” Wallace using a key tool of the trucker’s trade, the citizens’ band (CB) radio. Rubber Duck and Cottonmouth have a long, antagonistic history. When this encounter later escalates into a more physical one as Cottonmouth threatens Spider Mike, a man who just wants to get home to his pregnant wife, Rubber Duck and other the truckers involved, including Spider Mike, Pig Pen and “Widow Woman”, go on the run, figuring the best thing to do being to head to New Mexico to avoid prosecution. Along for the ride is Melissa, a beautiful photographer who just wanted a ride to the airport. As news of what happened spreads over the CB airwaves, other truckers join their convoy as a show of support. Cottonmouth rallies other law enforcement officers …

Extras Include:
(All of the extra features here have apparently been ported over from a previous American DVD release)
French and German subtitles
1) Injokes, Friends And Cameos (5:44)
2) Passion and Poetry (doc – making of) (70:02)
3) Three Lost Scenes (5:33)
4) Trucker Notes From Norway (3:04)

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http://nitroflare.com/view/664F7E6D60BC454/convoy_extras.rar

Language(s):English
Subtitles:English French German

Plot Outline: A groups of Korean anarchists in 1920s China are determined to overthrow the military and government.

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https://publish2.me/file/12b2b00c5940b/The_Anarchists.mp4
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Language(s):Korean
Subtitles:English

Plot :
Joe Shishido plays a tough guy with a secret agenda. His violent behavior comes to the attention of a yakuza boss who immediately recruits him. He soon tries to make a deal with a rival gang a starts a gang war. His real motivations are gradually revealed as we find out how this all ties in with the murder of a policeman shown at the beginning of the film.

Review :
This was the Nikkatsu programmer in which contract director Suzuki first asserted his voice – and assertive is the word. Soon after the apparent love-suicide of a cop and his mistress, the tough Mizuno (Shishido, whey-faced as ever) muscles his way to prominence in yakuza circles. He gets himself hired by two rival gang bosses who hate each other as much as they hate the cops. But who is Mizuno really and what is his secret agenda? And what does it have to do with the Takeshita School of Knitting? Suzuki films this nonsense with a keen sense of its absurdity, but also raises the genre’s visual rhetoric to a new high. Who else would park a gay yakuza in a pink limo under matching cherry blossoms? Or whip up an unexplained sandstorm outside the room where a sadist is indulging his vile passions? Hot stuff.

Extras included :
1. Joe Shishido Interview (with English subtitles)
2. Seijun Suzuki Interview (with English subtitles)
3. Trailer (with English subtitles)

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Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English (idx, sub)

review from :movies.com
THE BIG BIRD CAGE/ FACTS Director Jack Hill followed up his genre-defining women-in-prison film THE BIG DOLL HOUSE with this action-packed sequel, also starring Pam Grier and set in the Philippines. Grier plays Blossom, the machine gun-toting girlfriend of revolutionary leader Django (Sid Haig). His fellow revolutionaries want girlfriends too, so Django and Blossom make plans to liberate the nearby women’s prison, a grueling sugar mill work camp run by the high-strung Warden Zappa (Andy Centera). Slender babe Anitra Ford co-stars as Torry, a free-spirited nymphomaniac whose bedding of important political figures has landed her in the prison, and who together with Blossom makes plans for the big, explosion-packed breakout. Grier and Ford are both dynamite with their bad attitudes and skimpy prison attire, and there’s plenty of catfights–both in and out of the mud, and showers. Aside from some dated gay-stereotype humor involving the male guards of the camp, this is still pretty rock-solid entertainment, replete with suspense, sex, bloodsoaked veangance, and captivating outdoor cinematography by Phillip Sandalan. Hill and Grier would follow up this success with the blaxploitation classic COFFY the following year. *Cast* Pam Grier , Anitra Ford , Sid Haig , Vic Diaz , Carol Speed , Andy Centenera

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Language(s):English + Commentary (2nd track)
Subtitles:None

Description: As public outrage mounts against organized crime in modern-day Milan, four robbers meticulously plan a timed assault on several major banks within a period of 40 minutes. Led by the mastermind Cavallero, the men have pulled off other robberies in the past, keeping their identities secret by leading seemingly law-abiding lives. While making their getaway after one robbery, however, there is a slip-up, and the men must blast their way through the streets with submachine guns, killing several innocent bystanders in an effort to escape from the police. Three of the robbers escape, but a fourth, Rovoletto, is wounded and captured. The city is blockaded with the latest electronic devices, and police inspector Basevi questions Rovoletto, who finally breaks down. Lopez, the youngest gang member, is easily captured in his home, but Cavallero and Notarnicola evade the police dragnet. Before long, however, they are tracked down and cornered in an abandoned farmhouse. While being brought back to headquarters by Basevi, Cavallero boasts that his crimes have made him as famous as the Sicilian bandits of old, but he is shocked when a mob of irate citizens surround the police car, cursing and spitting at him.

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Language(s):Italian
Subtitles:English (revised)

Synopsis:
Ken Takakura stars in yet another bad-ass Prison film, in “Prison Boss”. Here, rival gangs battle it out over ownership of a bicycle race track. The outside life for the yakuza mimics prison life in two respects,…. First, there are rules that must never be crossed and second, when opportunity arises, the rules will always be broken.

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Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English (muxed, srt)