another great video! keep em coming pls :)

This is one of my favorite movies of all time.

Seen ichi the killer when i was about 12 or 13.... i know NOT THE AGE 😅😂. Well asian vcd shops didn't really care about age ☠💀. Grab this one on vcd one friday night... got throught it the first time... cut to a few years later at about 20 or 21 and couldn't get through half without feeling sick... it's one of my favorite international Gangster films. 31 now, so haven't seen it in a while. Might have to try and force myself 😅😂.

Watch the end scene of "the power of ninjitsu" it has a really cool fight🔥🔥🔥

Great video Rob!

Made in hong kong is a master piece the should be preserved for future generations

Interesting. I love Japanese films, all kinds, Kurosawa, Ozu, Ishii etc. I loved Ishii's Labyrinth Of Dreams. I have never heard of this director, Koji Wakamatsu, I will try to watch one or some of his films. Thank you.

I look forward to all of your vids, so this is great news you'll be making more!

You are back.

The way I spit out my drink when I saw your name in the sub box! Welcome back!

cool to see you do another video again I hope you do more

glad you're making videos again!! this is really good

One of my favorite films ever

Really liked the juxtaposition of the two worlds of cinema. Will but this on our socials. Glad your back!!

Yooo welcome back! Can't wait to see what's next

your LB link is just a link to the home page of LB

Babe, wake up! Robert Edwards dropped a new video!

So glad you’re back. Love your videos!

Licorice Pizza was 'accused' of this too. Buried Forest by Kohei Oguri would also fit nicely.

Enjoying the video? Please like, comment, subscribe, you know all that stuff that helps the video find its audience. I'm going to be making a lot more videos again now so please let me know some films you would love to see me tackle on the channel. Thank you guys for everything!

I've seen many of his films. He's a great filmaker.

Oh Boy the Ending of this movie. Such a gutpunch.

Can't believe people think Tetsuo is better than Rubber's Lover, both films are equally amazing and futuristic, with a touch of insanity and balance.

Why…why can’t I like this more than once! You deserve ALL THE LIKES! ALL OF THEM!

Whenever I put in a new Takashi Miike film, I looked forward like a child to the absolute unexpected madness that would come over me (almost) every time. Brilliant guy!

This was part of my Nippon film craze back in 2020 but I did not like it at the time, thought it was not intense enough, rewatched it in 2024 and I enjoyed it so much. Definitely intense!

Lethal Panther is GOLD! & his actually directed films are at least all fun. Take his films over the Guardian reader aimed tedium of “Infernal Affairs”. Crap video.

Excellent video on an excellent film. 👍

Hey man k could be wrong, but i think you did yhe commentary for sharkskin man for third qindows film. Was listening to it and i remember that you said that the mivie asano was watching in the film, in the oil actually existed and im wondering if you know if theres a olace you can watch it?

Japanese horror movie that inspired from Western movies, they makes it more parody, gory and scat, even its a low budget, but better than western low budget copypaste from Hollywood.

The most unbelievable thing is everybody (out of Japan) only know Nobuhiko Obayashi because of "House"...but throughout his 50 years career he wouldn't made a single one movie like that. And he made true masterpieces ("Tomorrow", "Lonely Heart", "The Rocking Horsemen", "Labyrinth of Cinema", "The Reason"...).

no Gojoe Reisenki??

Have you seen the video by Callum on The Origins of Cyberpunk in Japan? To me it sounds like he stole a lot of the narrative of your video.

To expand on the year... 1989 was also around when "Akira" came out, an anime masterpiece with violence and destruction, and incidentally its antagonist is named "Tetsuo", predating the film "Tetsuo". "Tetsu" means "metal", which I feel symbolises the edgy industrial vibe of certain subcultures of this era. Nine Inch Nails' "Pretty Hate Machine", a pivotal industrial album, came out in 1989. "Black Rain", set in Japan, directed by Ridley Scott, came out in the same year and has a grim gritty industrial vibe. 1989 had another film named "Black Rain", this one directed by a Japanese, about the aftermath of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima (black rain being a result of clouds contaminated with smokes and radioactivity). Atomic bombing is the scale at which Tokyo gets destroyed in "Akira" too (the city gets destroyed twice in the film version, and thrice in the manga version). See how these things go full circle. Apparently destruction was a big part of the Japanese subconscious in 1989, which is in contrast with the opulance of the country's economic boom peaking at that time.

Could u do a wong kar wai video?

One thing that I really think is overlooked with his Cutey Honey is how he experimented with treating choreographed fights as cel animation. Where characters at times move on three's and two's and distort wildly like they would in a hand drawn fight. It is probably the only instance where I have seen it done in a live-action adaptation of anime. And I really wonder why it isn't attempted more often.

A couple of weeks ago, me and a few friends put on Future Cops knowing nothing more about it than that it is a wacky unofficial Street Fighter adaptation. And I must say, it was a blast. And I do recommend watching it like that. Knowing next to nothing about it and just let the insanity wash over you. Oh, and it's uploaded to KZbin, so... give it a go, dear reader of random comments. :D

Fantastic video!

Just bought this movie....by accident..meant to buy crazy thunder road and forgot arrow recently released two of his movies. Already have the amazing electric dragon and dead end run (havent watched for years didnt enjoy at the time is jt worth a rewatch?) as well as gojoe.

"Every country's education system has problems" except sweden

I never seen this movie but just by going by the clips here. I would say the actor who played the muscle builder. Could have been a stand in for Bruce Campbell.

What film is the last clip from you showed? It looks cool!

Has a better sound track

Beautiful work on this video. Very funny way to start the day. 😆

My favorite director of all time! Got to meet him and get his signature at a screening of blade of the immortal in LA. He was super nice and approachable. He signed my arrow steelbook of audition and my dvd of visitor q. I was shaking soo bad after. I couldn't believe i met him and got his autograph. It was a dream come true. He was signing for tons of people.

I don't think he can possibly be the worst director in Hong Kong, he successfully created films that appealed to audiences around the world. These films played in African villages where the cinema operators had to bring their own screen into town because there was none there, that was the extent of the reach they had. They were shown in the Middle East, across Asia, South America, the Caribbean, the USA and beyond. And aside from that, consider that he was taking finished films in one language, shooting new scenes and re-editing them to create a new film with an entirely different plot in a different language. That's a lot harder than one would think, and the fact that his films are as watchable and understandable as they are, despite all their faults, is a testament to his skill. He definitely was cheap, shlocky, and probably quite immoral for the way he treated Richard Harrison and others, but not a bad director. He couldn't have pulled it off without knowing what he was doing.

2:21 is that Mad Gallant?

Great vid I wish there were more videos about this movie

He can make Ninja MORE recognized.