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[@andreavila6610]

You're already dead - check. Ya-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta - Not check. There's the movie failure!

[@Iamgoldygramz]

André Ávila lmao - your RIGHT!

[@awesomebrand6122]

@@Iamgoldygramz the Japanese dub has some atatata action.

[@mana_beast_beats1114]

omae wa shindeiru.....

[@neoasura]

I don't give a shit, call it a guilty pleasure..I still love this movie. Not as much as the original anime, but still love it.

[@rafaeltrivino1790]

I agree. The first fight in the movie is pretty bad but although the dude's head about to explode is great.

[@iaincowell9747]

@JoeyVerminRedxNight Yep. Another guilty pleasure for me & coincidentally also a anime and manga Crying Freeman (1995) starring Mark Dacascos.

[@rando1572]

Jackal is an existing character in the anime/manga with Jagi being a completely separate character you may remember Jackal as the “Hey as long as it works” Guy

[@film79]

I love how Oliver Harper can justify watching any bad movie by calling up some mates and getting piss drunk and stoned as hell.

[@OliverHarper]

It works though! lol

[@film79]

No I know it works it is just funny, please don't stop mentioning it though.

[@pferreira1983]

Oliver Harper I saw your video commentary for Street Fighter. Your friend was so drunk I couldn't understand a thing he said, the film made more sense. Anyway I saw this film as usual before your review, I wish I could have somehow (maybe telepathic warning) that it was going to be really bad.

[@kloggmonkey]

is there any other way?

[@nooan79]

"...has a big following in Italy?" You're 100% right! I must have watched the whole TV series with my little bro almost religiously at least 6 times. And I could say the same for most of my friends at that time. If only I had the time I'd re-watch it again. Btw, big congratulations for your reviews. I thoroughly enjoy your professional, composed and highly informative style. Looking forward to hearing more and more reviews !

[@visualkeifan2003]

Speaking to its popularity the Italian vhs's for the 86 film somehow got their hands on a copy of the film with some uncensored gore

[@blud63]

One random selling point in the casting choices that could've inticed both American and Japanese fans, was that the big 400lb bad guy with the ball and chain is Leon White, the WWF/WCW wrestler named Vader (aka Big Van Vader in Japanese Wrestling). There is an interview/commentary video floating around somewhere on YT with one of the cast or crew talking about how he ate some funky powder that "gave him energy" (in real life) and would get all crazy and amped up, and when he was doing one of the scenes he really knocked one of the other actors down/out and everyone was all like, WTF... Just an interesting tidbit. IT'S TIME! IT'S TIME! IT'S VADER TIME!

[@mrpix3l_colorist]

The movie is bad, but the casting for shin is perfect. Have that kind of face that is like the mangas of Hokuto no ken, or jojos bizarre.

[@YouGottaShootEmInTheHead]

+Helí Suárez Shin is always fucking perfect, in the movies, in the anime, in the manga,however plays him, or his overall presentation, is fucking PERFECT ALWAYS

[@ChamVayne]

he is a great actor. he is also a cast from SAW series.

[@stuckinperth]

The movie is bad??? Bro it’s made in the 90s. U do understand stand the cinematography in that era right?

[@mrpix3l_colorist]

@@stuckinperth WHAT? That have nothing to do with it. You know Terminator 2 is from 1991 and is fucking PERFECT. Aliens was made in 1986, and it is also a masterpiece. The cinematography in that era was very good. You can have bad or good movies today, and also, you can have bad or good movies in the 90s. Hokuto no ken was a great MANGA, but this movie could be a lot better. And by the way, the 90s was a better era for the movie industry.

[@stuckinperth]

@@mrpix3l_colorist 🍒 picking

[@waitingisfun]

What's more amazing that Kenshiro's martial art prowess is his vocal range. He goes from monologue to atatatatatat like nothing. if he's not a fighter, he would've become an accomplish singer.

[@VampiresCrypt]

There are some awesome actors in the cast, like Costas Mandilore from SAW, Chris Penn from Reservoir Dogs and Best of the best, Malcom Macdowel from almost anything lol and of course the awesome Gary Daniels :D

[@TheAngelmisa]

I did like the guyver live action movies....

[@capslockabc3872]

The sequel was better

[@ShadeWMD]

How the hell did Gary Daniels not get cast as Ken in the 1994 Street Fighter movie?

[@nodinitiative]

didn't he get that part already on "City Hunter" :)

[@sfighter0085]

nodinitiative Still would've been better then Damien Chappa.

[@gc3k]

He was perfectly cast as Bryan Fury (but the movie was terrible)

[@sizzxrk]

How the hell did Gary Daniels not get cast as Shin in Fist of The North Star?

[@GothamKnight84661]

@@sizzxrk Oh hell no, It's a great thing he wasn't.

[@jetpackman01]

Aww, I actually like the Streamline Pictures dub of the Fist of the North Star movie. It's at least a lot better than most other anime dubs of the era. Anyway, as for this film, I pretty much agree with everything you say. The tamed violence and lack of key characters seriously hurts it. Like, seriously, where's Rei? Rei was badass!

[@fartybutt5206]

Yeah I grew up in the early nineties watching the old dubbed anime. Just re-watch Fist of the North Star and the lines were still memorable.

[@KevinStriker]

I don't mind the acting, I just don't like some of the liberties taken with the English script. Like Jagi telling Raoh to beat up Shin for beating up Ken creates a logical plothole because Jagi is the one who convinced Shin to kidnap Julia. Or Raoh being pissed he's not the successor to Hokuto Shinken when in the Japanese he wasn't at all interested (waiving the title down to Jagi) and wanted to conquer the world.

[@k1productions87]

Streamline did some wonderful dubbing. My favorite had always been the (latter two) Dirty Pair movies (Affair on Nolandia was awful all around, but Project Eden and Flight 005 Conspiracy were well done). True, there were liberties taken with the script, but that created a more enjoyable movie than the true-to-original re-dub ADV did later (and seriously,... you cannot beat Laura Cody and Wendy Lee). I will admit though, my preference to the first dub of Akira is based purely on Nostalgia, as the Pioneer re-dub was of noticeably better quality. It is very sad that one of the side-effects of Orion Pictures going bankrupt is, the entire Streamline english library went with it, and you will never find them on DVD T~T

[@spaceghostcqc2137]

@@k1productions87 I love that original dub of akira peak nostalgic dub.

[@k1productions87]

@@spaceghostcqc2137 thankfully there was enough good in there for it to remain nostalgic in a positive way. But then, Orion/Streamline did a real good job with that. Others... like AnimEigo... not so much. LOL

[@farseerflore9512]

I always thought the scars looked more like slices of pepperoni than anything. Also, no mention of Leon White, AKA Vader as Goliath?

[@ezcompane]

I still love watching this movie after all these years. Gary Daniels is such an awesome action star. It's just too bad he never took off like the others back then.

[@Palmroxx]

Gary Daniels was one of the bad guys in The Expendables. He had to be taken down by both Jet Li and Dolph Lundgren, so I thought it was a nice tribute to him.

[@iaincowell9747]

This was before The Expendables

[@tomowenpianochannel]

Also think that Gary Daniels' look strongly influenced the casting of Viggo Mortensen as Aragorn in Lord of the Rings.

[@red5wormy165]

I watched this everyday when I was a kid its super nostalgic for me.

[@IceTeaEdwin]

That gore reminds me of Riki Oh.

[@drhploveboat]

+Sand Rae Riki Oh was heavily influenced by Fist of the North Star.

[@GothamKnight84661]

Fist of the North Star was the first before Riki Oh was a thing.

[@sephyfan]

I'm so glad you mentioned dub of the north star by weekly tube show! thanks for your retrospectives, glad I ran into you when I did

[@OliverHarper]

Im glad your happy with the review after waiting AGES! lol. Yeah Gary Daniels should've been in full control over all the fight scenes, it would've been EPIC.

[@HoustonSoto]

I have seen an inordinate amount of films in my life, and I am always pleased when I can get surprised and educated about something I've never heard of. Well done Olly!

[@scottcuilty4154]

This movie grew on me over time. I found it in a pawn shop several years ago having never knew it existed.

[@ChamVayne]

I just realized the actor who plays as Lord Shin was Hoffman from Saw movies lol

[@sabatonliam]

i never knew there was a fist of the north star movie *gasp*

[@nicklaskowalski]

It’s terrible! Enjoy it!

[@mickfoley33]

ITS TIME...ITS TIME...ITS...VADER...TIME (time time)

[@k1productions87]

OMG Seriously? That WAS him!?

[@ObsessiveBadguy]

That outro you put together was a masterpiece

[@jmalmsten]

I remember finally getting hold of this film after watching Tropic Thunder. And I just can't get the thought out of my head... this looks exactly like what I expect an early Tugg Speedman movie to look like! It's a very similar experience to watch The Lawnmower Man.... the first half looks and acts exactly like Simple Jack. Just so bizarre.

[@PhoeniksStorm]

I think this might just be my favourite movie of all time. It's so awful i can't help but love every second of it. Though genuinely there are moments where it's a genuinely good movie. But also I can't believe they pulled a rufio on us

[@5stardave]

This movie is everything I want in a movie.

[@TheDarthMasterChief]

The dubbed anime is depressingly bad since it changes the music as well. I love the anime and the manga, and sitting through this flick was a heck of a time. Having a martial artist use a gun to shoot a man, is a little strange. Changing Lin's injury, and keeping only Yuria as asian out of the entire cast, was a bit odd, as well. I wish they had decided to play a longer game with the story, or did something else with it, I dunno, maybe a little nod or sequel hook such as "Shin's armies came into contact with the armies of the King of Fists" might have been interesting, had the movie been good. And the mystical elements are simultaneously minimal and far too out there for what they are, whereas in the original material it was eastern mysticism star prophecies, magical martial arts and destiny , this just has that weird scene with the zombie. Shin is portrayed as simply a bad guy; the original which wasn't necessarily deep even portrayed him into a much more sympathetic character. The lack of gore is notable. The music of the film, is quite a bit better than anything since, though my favorite soundtracks were from the original anime. The music in more recent entries is simply a lot of low effort metal and some typical movie music, and I found the anime soundtrack quite a bit more interesting.

[@DSan-kl2yc]

Hal Emmerich they basically didn't get it and turned it generic and whatever they got they brushed off and turn it stereotypical.

[@einc70]

They could have focus what school of martial arts Ken and Shin came from. I see them as tradional medicine practitioner as they use acu-pressure points as lethal strikes. Instead of jumping straight head on in the middle of the plotline of the series as they did. An original story sort of speak but attached to reality.

[@absinthe-minded6089]

"All we want is a faithful movie adaptation!" Faithful movie adaptation:

[@emmastrange5557]

Is it faithful? It's faithful in the sense that each scene comes from the manga, but they changed the motivations and mixed things up too much. The spirit is gone. The anime changes the events a lot compared to the manga, the animated film does the same. But both are faithful because they keep the characterization consistent. The story isn't just a bunch of set pieces stringed together.

[@KingFossilFER]

Kinda hard to say the role of kenshiro would be better with a japanese actor. Ken always had a look similar to bruce lee, but shortly after hes starts to look like stallone. EDIT: BTW the inspirations on the series when part 2 came out where incredible. At that point we get dolph lundgren, some subtle star wars sinpiration and even sloth from Goonies (which gets his guts spilled, i get the creators didnt like the movie)

[@MrEvldreamr]

I thought Ken kinda looked like Conan the barbarian...But I can see a japanese kenshiro if they could find a large enough asian.

[@primusvsunicron1]

KingFossilFER actually Kenshiro's looks are a mix of Bruce Lee and Mad Max

[@AirLancer]

Speaking of music, the music for the Hokuto no Ken anime is fantastic. They really accentuate the emotional scenes in the show, reflective moments, or when Kenshiro triumphantly defeats an opponent. Some examples that stand out to me are: Hiai Dry Your Tears (Instrumental) Asunaki Tabi Minagoroshi no Theme Futatsu no Kyousei (Rei's theme) Sentou (aka Combat, an instrumental version of Ai Wo Torimodose that usually plays when Ken's 'splodin heads) Hard to pick a few, because there's a lot of great tracks in the show.

[@OliverHarper]

Cheers John!. Im very pleased you felt educated after viewing the video. :D

[@chetkenyon9797]

Love this movie, Gary daniels is an amazing actor

[@dirtnastyish]

This would be a good movie to watch on the marijuanas.

[@Derke73]

dirtnastyish No. No it isn't. Still utter shit. Watch the original animated movie version. I'm not usually a fan of anime, but it's worth it.

[@kenaustin3472]

This movie was my first exposure to Fist of the North Star. I actually really liked it when I was younger. Overtime I figure it may be one of those films I enjoyed when I was younger and probably see differently nowaday. Rewatching some clips of this it still has some admirable traits, but just needed a director willing to take more chances.

[@dmen0563]

I'll give this movie this...it tried to be faithful

[@SuperMasterJefe]

Gary Daniels, the REAL Ken Masters

[@ChristianThueringer]

loved the metal music part in the end

[@alexrain1188]

I'm actually going to disagree and say I actually enjoy this movie and think it is good.

[@OliverHarper]

Fights lacked a lot thanks to the director Tony Randel shooting everyone in close ups.

[@shimsham6]

This is a well done and entertaining review of the guilty pleasure film! You have a real passion to breaking down and providing great source of information and knowledge as a admirer of films and cult classics. Love to see the more content you create in the future.

[@BonzaiBomber]

This movie is secretly brilliant if you know how to watch it. First, watch zoolander and get a pretty solid buzz on. Second, put it in your head that this movie is the post apocalyptic sequel to Zoolander. Every time Kenshiro does a face, yell "Blue Steel", and take a drink. Then, whenever Shin Swarms up on stage, yell "Hancel, he is so hot right now", and take a drink. Lastly, whenever Jackle does something douche, yell "I invented the piano tie", and take a drink. Do that and you are guaranteed to have an amazing experience.

[@EarJuice]

There is also a remix of the anime done by and dnb group (from US?). Parts were shown on the old Aus SBS show Alchemy but I have never tracked it down. They cleaned up the visuals as well and made it more flashy from memory. Does anyone know where you can get this version?

[@OliverHarper]

Thank you very much for the interesting trivia!. Oh yes the cheap way to save on stuntmen, use them again for later fight scenes! haha.

[@TheMixedPlateFrequency]

ROFL.. "your already dead.." that acting was horrible.. lol no feeling or intensity whatsoever.

[@KaiserTrigger]

Kenshior wasn't exactly known for saying it like he was excited or angry usually. Pretty monotone as well. It's more so the voice itself.

[@classyredneckcinema9327]

Daniels said he wasn't the right person to do this role at all and he trashes the movie in an interview. I wish daniel s got more staring roles

[@OliverHarper]

Cheers bud, Gary Daniels did say there were discussions of a sequel but nothing ever materialised.

[@Broyale26]

Back in 1996, I was a HUGE fan of the Fist of the North Star animated movie, so when I found out that HBO was premiering the movie, I was soooo fuckin' hyped, I made sure to set the VCR to record it and everything. Too bad our VCR broke the morning of the day it was supposed to show. I was disappointed, needless to say, though Chris Penn. did a great job as Jagi.

[@baboner1046]

I liked this movie. Ironically I saw it without knowing it was based on an anime. Years later I saw the anime and had a huge deja vu at the scene where he gets his scars. I never finished the anime as I really don't like the visuals. But I have read the whole manga and watched the newer ovas. I love the franchise. So yeah, thanks B movie.

[@Xesthan]

Have you read Fist of the Blue Sky? It follows Kenshiro's uncle (Ryuken's brother), who is also named Kenshiro. Kenshiro was named after him.

[@primusvsunicron1]

Gary's son is a soccer player in the Philippines

[@OliverHarper]

Thank you very much sir.

[@JuanRodriguez-bk8om]

Its true Gary Daniels is very underrated and too bad for him not getting into the mainstream action cinema. About the movie yes fans hate it but for me I like it. Also this is a very very low budget movie to begin with it was not produce by the top hollywood studios. That been said it lack the series charm of violence but if they include the violence of the anime it could have receive a hard rating if it when into theaters. Still a good movie for anyone who loves martial arts.

[@sarlaccstapeworm990]

Gary Daniels = the "Scott Adkins" of the 90's lmao

[@OliverHarper]

Thats great to hear!. How long were you on the shoot for?.

[@Morgil27]

I just finished watching this movie, and I very much enjoyed it.

[@willmistretta]

Ryuken gets taken out with a revolver? Doesn't the entire narrative of the manga/anime depend on these super martial artists being essentially immune to conventional weaponry?

[@Blackshadow164]

Will Mistretta while they are on guard. Remember , Ken got injured from a spear and jagi’s gun. He isn’t invincible, just very very durable. Hokuto Shinkin uses Energy with superhuman abilities.

[@worldwidewebster6224]

This whole film just kinda confuses me. I'm a huge fan of the HNK series-both the manga and anime- and whenever I see screenshots of this interpretation it takes me a moment to even recognize what it is. WHY ARE JAGI AND JACKLE THE SAME DUDE? Also this film completely ruins Shin as a character. On a side note I'd like to point out that this film is to HNK as the Mortal Kombat Movies were to the Video-games.

[@AdrianLikesFlags]

I particularly like the final montage with heavy metal in the background, it makes it a cool/badass battle scene, BUT... I lost it when the guy opened his mouth! lol, it's just a voice tone I wasn't expecting from the Hero :)

[@TheBlackslight]

I'm not ashamed to say that i thought the movie was good. I saw the manga after and I think it is not a "bad" adaptation. They tried over the finishing moves and head explosions. It could have been better but it does not deserve the harsh criticism. This kind of criticism also went for Crying Freeman. They were enjoyed and had great rentals. Better than a lot of other adaptations out there. unfair!

[@GothamKnight84661]

I was kinda pissed how they replaced Jagi with Jackal, It didn't make sense to me ignoiring characters like Raoh and Toki who were very important to the mythos of Fist of the North Star. Since they are brothers indeed and the fact it was Shin that battles Ryuken didn't sit well with me at all.

[@THEBLACKBELT]

Awesome review as always. Speaking of 'City Hunter'. Gonna do any Jackie Chan movies in the near future?

[@OliverHarper]

I used the music from the Fist of The North Star 360/PS3 game. :) Yeah his voice doesn't work for Kenshiro.

[@redheadboyyy123]

I refuse to believe this movie is terrible. Bad? Absolutely! Terrible? No. Gary Daniels may have been miscast as Kenshiro, but he gave it his all, and became a huge fan of the Manga through the film. The apocalyptic wasteland looked slightly different than the manga, but still good. The change to Lin? i prefer her as being Blind rather than a mute, her losing her vision due to witnessing tragedy is a real thing, so i believe Ken helping her see more than talk. The rest of the cast felt fine to me. I really didn't think it was terrible. It's not horrid, it's just pretty bad, but i actually saw this before the anime, so i actually liked it until seeing the anime. All I'm saying is it's not the worst way it could have come out. I think it's at least fun to watch once a year or so.

[@OliverHarper]

Thank you sir! :D

[@JoeChillton]

Oliver, ya know what would make a good counter to this, a Riki-Oh review, based on a comic/manga and given a ridiculous fun film to balance.

[@GothamKnight84661]

Oliver you did an awesome job on the review. I agree with your opinions on Gary Daniels he's truly under underrated and not appreciated enough as both a Martial Artist and actor. If Fist of the North star was handled by Steve Wang and Koichi Sakamoto, they would'ev done a sequel and i felt the direction and how they written the Fist of the North star was so wrong indeed ignoiring continuity and making changes that didn't need to be changed which disappointed me as a hard core fan.

[@nickangelo116]

The actress who played Lynn has no online profile or presence whatsoever. No Wikipedia, no IMDB, no social media. Is she dead? Downtown Julie Brown is in this? I remember her from MTV when I was little. I was twelve when this came out. This is not as bad as people make it out to be. I thoroughly enjoyed it. I seem to have acquired a sense of appreciation unlike the mainstream masses, or sheep, as I like to call them. Even had Malcolm McDowell in this movie. Clockwork Orange is a classic. I enjoy the FOTNS anime as well. Someone find Nalona Herron

[@kanedasrifle]

Awesome choice of a review. Loved the Series on sci fi, and the original Manga movie growing up, and i'm kinda fond of this, and Gary Daniels seems like one cool dude. Man a real shame they cut/toned it down, if they had had over the top head explosions etc it would've made it hilariously cool, i especially missed the drum and base from the tv series lol. Facinating backstory and review.

[@HentaiMcToonboob]

holy hell. I never knew there was a live action version of this. whoa.

[@OliverHarper]

Yeah i should cover City Hunter and also Operation Condor 2.

[@knutolof]

I agree about Gary Daniels, my favourite moment in th Expendables was when I saw Gary Daniels show up, I got really excited and my friends was looking like big questionmarks. It is really a shame that he is not featured more prominently. He reminds Scott Adkins, who I think is probably my favourite martial arts actor at the moment, I hope he gets a big break soon.

[@arleh5402]

if only paul verhoeven made this movie...

[@wulfganglover]

Arleh would have been just as gory and violent as the anime. Which is a good thing.

[@mjustice34]

I couldn't agree more Gary Daniels was highly underrated martial arts talent, much like Scot Adkins, he did a few good films in the mid 90's, but even now in his later years he's still a beast but under used. He's does a few modern B-Rate films also, bottom line he is the only reason I liked this film.

[@KevinStriker]

The plot synopsis of the movie has me yelling out "No, that's wrog" at my computer screen. Like Shin killing Ryuuken. With a gun. Jagi's the one who uses guns! Not mention it's supposed to be Raoh who kills Ryuuken because he doesn't want his fists broken or his memory erased.

[@COBWEBOWNZYA]

Waited ages for this! Love the review and a shame about the direction of the film, I believe if Daniels was given more free roam the film would have been better as he seemed to understand the whole thing better.

[@larryking7255]

Awesome job Olly! I still think this movie isn't that bad. There are much worse movies I have seen. Mortal Kombat: Annihilation. Batman and Robin. Guyver. At least there were some really cool elements in this. Though I do agree, getting off of the soundstage, and opening up the world a bit would have been a good thing. Also not holding back would have been nice. More cranial explosions. The more the merrier. It's Fist of the North Star after all.

[@Kill3rGr1zzly]

Is the music at 12:58 from the actual score? It's actually a great piece that even makes this apparent schlock look interesting.

[@66cuda]

thank you, I never knew of this live action version

[@Thagomizer]

I had no idea there was ever a live-action adaptation of this.

[@imlinorama]

No matter what you think of this movie, it rocks till this day and yes Gary Daniels is misused a lot during his career.

[@yqisq6966]

I wish they could make a film today... as the audience are a lot better informed and there would be a demand for such a film to stay faithful to the origianl series. And the direct can't just fool around without having a deep understanding of the original series.

[@waldemarjesswein7997]

You may want to watch the movie "Steel Dawn" with Patrick Swayze as the lead actor. In my opinion it comes very close to a live action version of Fist of the North Star. How about a review about Steel Dawn Oliver???

[@KaosNova2]

Nice review.

[@markula_4040]

11:52 Gary Daniels bug-eyed look reminds me of Trey Parker's. Maybe he would have been a better casting choice.

[@biggerbear7262]

great video!

[@OliverHarper]

Yeah i got back into Fist of the North Star after playing the recent Ken's Rage games. I really enjoyed them despite what the reviews said. Yeah it seems they swapped jackal and Jagi around in the film and gave jackal Jagi's head wound.

[@Shadowrulzalways]

Fist Of The North Star or Hokuto No Ken is a Shonen Jump classic. Always been part of the line.

[@Champion2D]

Really great review, I hope you get around to reviewing the guyver movies at some point. I don't think I ever hsd a problem with gary daniels in the role, the movie just lacked the scope of the manga. The fights lacked any real intensity and due to nearly everything being filmed on a sound stage it just looks hokey.

[@necrokillerj]

I liked a lot this movie in the 90, was the best movie adaptation we could get over those years 😅

[@NullStaticVoid]

I think it is unfair to call this a bad film. Twenty five years ago, Hong Kong martial arts style action scenes had yet to break into mainstream films. Only some martial arts film nerds were even aware of John Woo and Yuen Wu Ping. Matrix and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon would not even come out until '99 and 2000. Likewise, computer enhanced digital film making was still the realm of big budget studios. Not yet the democratizing force that it now has become. Where even low budget, poorly written films have acceptable SFX. This is a B film. It's cheap and dirty and full of flaws. The acting is all over the map with mumbled performances and over the top hammy acting, often in the same scene. What it is good for is a cool way to waste a rainy sunday evening with a couple friends. There is no in depth theme to uncover. There is nothing you will miss if you are talking. It's just a goofy movie with a few memorable parts. It's fun. As far as whether it follows the manga/anime correctly. That never happens when they make live actions adaptations of Anime. Heck, many Manga heads will claim the Anime waters down the graphic novel.

[@Crimson28]

Great review!! Any plans to review the Guyver movie adaptations as well?

[@FromThemFarms]

I played one of the stunt martial arts thungs in this movie filmed in L.A. had lots of fun

[@xFuzzyxPicklesx]

by not having the prison scene and interaction with lin, kenshiro kinda feels like hes unhinged lol. they didnt write any warmness.

[@beau-urns]

this movie looks amazing

[@TheSolfilm]

I want to watch that movie !!

[@Highland_Ronin]

It's odd how I only recently got into Fist of the North star though the video game, then moved on to the manga and then you review the live action adaptation not a week after I subscribed. And just because I'm OCD about these things, Jagi and Jackal are two different characters in the manga. Jagi is one of Kenshiro's brothers while Jackal is just a gang leader.

[@FromThemFarms]

Oliver H. I was supposed to work with my Grip crew but i fractured my elbow in three place s ...so Rocky the fight choreographer asked if i knew any martial arts. I work on with my crew for about three weeks but only did the fight seen for three days ..... it's the final fight scene with the Southern Cross. rocky didn't have enough martial artist so many of us have double fight scenes after we were killed....lol

[@MrRomanrin]

GREAT REVIEW! great indeed :)

[@ShadeWMD]

Yay! Another awesome vid!