'Wolf Guy' (1975, Urufu gai: Moero ôkami-otoko)
Sept 8, 2017 22:34:30 GMT
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The ultraviolent crime horror 'Wolf Guy' is loosely based on Kazumasa Hirai's manga series 'Urufu Gai' which spawned the movie 'Horror Of The Wolf' (1973) but is said to owe as much to scriptwriter Fumio Konami who worked on the 'Female Prisoner Scorpion' series and the 'Battles Without Honor And Humanity' franchise. It stars action man Sonny Chiba as the lone descendant of a werewolf clan who uses his full moon superpowers to detect danger and solve crimes.
"Everyone always talks about "real" martial arts. But you can't really punch people. That's where the difference is. That's what you have to learn. They all say, "I do karate," "I do shaolin kung fu." And it may look good when they make their moves, but really making it look professional and like it really hits the chin, that's where the acting comes in. They say they can do it, but there's hardly anyone who can."
- Sonny Chiba
"From day one, the possibilities provided by the medium of cinema provided fertile ground for the "fantastique". In its formative decade, French pioneer Georges Méliès explored the use of superimpositions, close-ups, jump cuts and other techniques of time and space manipulation to present a mysterious mirror-world that subverted the logic of the real in a way that was both fascinating and horrifying. Trick films of just a few minutes in length with titles such as 'The Vanishing Lady' (1896), 'The Haunted Castle' (1896), 'The Gigantic Devil' (1901), 'A Trip To The Moon' (1902), 'The Monster' (1903) and 'The Merry Frolics Of Satan' (1906) provided the foundations for the irrational domain that later fantasy filmmakers would inhabit. Though its fundamental technologies of filming and projection were of Western invention, cinema nevertheless arrived in Japan at an early stage, with the first footage shot in the country in 1897 by François-Constant Girel, a representative of the Lumière brothers, shortly after their Cinématographe's public unveiling in Paris in 1895."
- Jasper Sharp, 'Monster Mashups, Japanese Style'
- Jasper Sharp, 'Monster Mashups, Japanese Style'
'Shinjuku No Onna' - Keiko Fuji
These are my top 10 Sonny Chiba movies of the 1970s ...
01. 'The Street Fighter' (1974 - Shigehiro Ozawa)
02. 'Return Of The Street Fighter' (1974 - Shigehiro Ozawa)
03. 'Sister Street Fighter' (1974 - Kazuhiko Yamaguchi)
04. 'The Streetfighter's Last Revenge' (1974 - Shigehiro Ozawa)
05. 'The Executioner' (1974 - Teruo Ishii)
06. 'Bullet Train' (1975 - Jun'ya Sato)
07. 'The Killing Machine' (1975 - Noribumi Suzuki)
08. 'Wolf Guy' (1975 - Kazuhiko Yamaguchi)
09. 'The Bodyguard' (1976 - Ryuichi Takamori & Simon Nuchtern)
10. 'Karate Warriors' (1976 - Kazuhiko Yamaguchi)
01. 'The Street Fighter' (1974 - Shigehiro Ozawa)
02. 'Return Of The Street Fighter' (1974 - Shigehiro Ozawa)
03. 'Sister Street Fighter' (1974 - Kazuhiko Yamaguchi)
04. 'The Streetfighter's Last Revenge' (1974 - Shigehiro Ozawa)
05. 'The Executioner' (1974 - Teruo Ishii)
06. 'Bullet Train' (1975 - Jun'ya Sato)
07. 'The Killing Machine' (1975 - Noribumi Suzuki)
08. 'Wolf Guy' (1975 - Kazuhiko Yamaguchi)
09. 'The Bodyguard' (1976 - Ryuichi Takamori & Simon Nuchtern)
10. 'Karate Warriors' (1976 - Kazuhiko Yamaguchi)
"Everyone always talks about "real" martial arts. But you can't really punch people. That's where the difference is. That's what you have to learn. They all say, "I do karate," "I do shaolin kung fu." And it may look good when they make their moves, but really making it look professional and like it really hits the chin, that's where the acting comes in. They say they can do it, but there's hardly anyone who can."
- Sonny Chiba
It's nothing dirty by the way!!