
Film
Violent Fighters
1979 · 1h 26m · Action · Drama · Crime
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- 4.9
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Overview
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.
Cast

Ken Tanaka

Masanori Machida
Kazuo Kainose

Kinya Sugi

Hiroshi Koizumi

Eiichi Tsuyama

Mina Asami
Chieko Sekita
Teruo Shimizu
Shigeki Ishii

Masato Hoshi
Crew
- Teruo IshiiDirector · Screenplay
- Nobuaki NakajimaScreenplay
- Tetsuya DesakiDirector of Photography
- Hajime KaburagiOriginal Music Composer
- Fumio SodaEditor
Media
Details
- Release date
- October 6, 1979
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- Japanese
- Runtime
- 1h 26m
- Genres
- Action, Drama, Crime
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