Violent Fighters (1979)
In 1979 Toei president Shigeru Okada saw the future. More precisely, he saw Walter Hill's The Warriors in the US prior to its Japanese opening. Okada rushed back to make his own version. "Towards the 80! Our era! Now filming!" the trailer exclaimed. The plot is roughly the same as in The Warriors except this time the chased gang has to make it from Kobe to Tokyo and the leader's got the enemy's sister handcuffed to him. Hardly great cinema, but undeniably entertaining with frantic pacing, loads of music and even a massive roller blade street chase! As a vision of future, it wasn't too far off if the future was defined as 80s rock, bad fashion and comic book films.
Director:
Teruo Ishii
Writers:
Teruo Ishii, Nobuaki Nakajima.
 |
Ken Tanaka as |
 |
Masanori Machida as |
 |
Kazuo Kainose as |
 |
Kinya Sugi as |
 |
Hiroshi Koizumi as |
 |
Eiichi Tsuyama as |
 |
Mina Asami as |
|
Chieko Sekita as |
|
Teruo Shimizu as |
|
Shigeki Ishii as |
 |
Masato Hoshi as |
| Directing | Teruo Ishii | Director |
| Writing | Teruo Ishii | Screenplay |
| Writing | Nobuaki Nakajima | Screenplay |
| Sound | Hajime Kaburagi | Original Music Composer |
| Lighting | Toshio Yamaguchi | Lighting Technician |
| Art | Hiroshi Fujita | Art Direction |
| Editing | Fumio Soda | Editor |
| Camera | Tetsuya Desaki | Director of Photography |
