The Executioner

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."The Executioner is one bad-ass little film" - Keith Allison, Teleport City "The Executioner is the craziest Sonny Chiba that you will ever see…" - Michael Den Boer, 10,000 Bullets "From a purely visceral level, this is one of Chiba's best." - Mark Pollard, Kung Fu Cinema When regular police procedure fails, an ex-police captain recruits a ragtag group of convicts to take down a deadly group of drug smugglers. Led by a martial arts expert, they quickly shoot their way through the Japanese underworld, ever closer to their main target and goal!

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Cheesy Violence+Sonny Chiba= Unbelievable Hilarity.......2006-01-31

Awesome!! The Executioner reminds me of The Street Fighter trilogy but not as violent but it was almost there and this film was actually made before The Street Fighter Trilogy so you can say this is like a precursor to The Street Fighter Trilogy. This Film is awesome a classic Sonny Chiba film. I especially like it when body parts pop out of people or are ripped out. WATCH IT!!

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Executioners From Shaolin
Do Not Purchase
I have a version that is englished dub, but always switches to original language track when the fights happen
Only part of the movie
What style of Kung Fu is this?!

Executioners From Shaolin
Starring: Chen Kuan-Tai , Lily Li , Lo Lieh , and Tien Ching
Director: Liu Chia-Liang
Manufacturer: Ground Zero
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ASIN: B00005UQ77
Release Date: 2002-02-05

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Executioners From Shaolin.......2007-08-29

Very fun and entertainging movie with great fight scenes, a must have for your video collection.

Do Not Purchase.......2006-10-16

I have both the Red Sun, and the Ground Zero versions. Both do the most terrible job of dubbing I've ever seen. I am a martial arts movie fanatic. Having over 500 movies. I have this one on VHS, but wanted it on DVD just to be able to skip around and watch all the fantastic fight scenes. In both versions, as soon as the fighting starts, all of the sound is removed and substituted by some cheesy typical punch kick sounds. This is itself is not bad. We're all used to that. The part that ruins the movie for me is that they simply delete all of the character personal sound effects. No shouting, no screaming, no anything. For me, this killed the movie. Especially since you can see they are saying something! I hope you do not make the same mistake I made, and purchase this movie.

I have a version that is englished dub, but always switches to original language track when the fights happen.......2006-05-08

there is a reason you pay a couple dollars more for the red sun versions over groundzero.

actually reasons, and big ones at that. It's not panned and scanned, it is presented in 16:9 format. Which I actually prefer over letterbox, if I had a big screen, I would probably take the letterbox, but this is to peoples advantage if you have around a 25 inch tv like me. Also another big plus is that unlike groundzero, you will be getting beautiful remastering job with no scratches, and I guarantee that. Now the sound is really the inly thing that they could have improved on. It only has 2-channel english language but the sound quality is still very good and won't fluxuate throughout the movie. The sound does change slightly but only because during the action, they just use original language track, but whenever they shift to speech, they have the john wayne sound-a-like AND COMPANY WHO DO ALL THE OLD SCHOOL AND NEW SCHOOL FOR THAT MATTER. So get ready for the same old voices, but again the sound shifts but is barely noticeable, I'm just a nitpicker. So overall it's worth the 3-5 dollars more.

Now the movie itself is absolutely wonderful. It has the great Chen Kuan Tai playing one of the last disciples after their shaolin temple was burned down. The movie starts with an introduction of how Pai Mei became a traitor and decided to help the ching's. It show's the head abbot of shaolin in a duel with pai mei and show his special kung fu internal style. Externally is shown just as well. I honestly can't think of a greater actor to play the traitor of the ming's. So in the next fight we get the greatest cameo of gordon liu's career. I had actually forgotten that this guy is a great actor until watching this and shaolin challenges ninja again. Now the action is made up of about 5 scenes. One after the other they get better and better but none surpassed the first 2 of the movie, the rest were just better because of the character development and the finale could not have been much better. Sure it could be bette in terms of speeds and superamn jumps but this is a hell of a lot more complex than your average kung fu tale. Now if I was only rating the fu it would only get like a 3.5, compared to say hitman in the hand of buddha would get a 3.5 or 4 btu is still only a 3 star movie. So after chen Kuan Tai escapes(thanks to gordon) he goes in hidnign and travels with the peking opera on the junks. Now I will certainly not leave out li-li-li, the hottest woman in cinema history. She meets kuan tai and marries him and they have a son who is played by wong yue. I am not familiar and didn't like him al that much, but he more than fit the bill for his fighting. So when the junks are ordered to be burned, chen and lily go in hiding and he studies for YEARS in the tiger claw style to try and beat pai mei, and he constanty refuses to implement her crane style. Even after he gets defeated by Pai Mei and is sent home a miserable loser he won't try her kung fu. But I guarantee you will see an ending that is sweet and overall great execution throughout the entire movie that will leave you with a smile on your face(especially if yu are a fan of li-li-li).

Also I didn't think that it deserved 5 stars I was stuck on a 4-4.5, but then the end came around.

Also sidenote from up at the top, this is uncut just like all red sun releases, so don't expect to see a scene cut-off and then reappear with lines on the screen and distortion because somebody finally decided to press the play button in a non-action scene.

Only part of the movie.......2005-03-30

Anyone who already loves this movie and wants to own it will be disappointed. The dubbing is terrible. During the fight scenes, all you get are a few sound effects (that seem forced in to save face), but none of the original sound effects. In other words, during the fighting, no one yells, grunts, gasps, breaths heavily, growls or anything else to remind you that the volume on the television is still up. A huge disappointment to fans. Moreover, people seeing it for the first time will notice this irritating flaw as well, but maybe they won't mind so much. But then again, what's a martial arts movie without the trademark "Haaiiiyyyy!!!!" and what-have-yous when someone's kicking ass?

What style of Kung Fu is this?!.......2004-04-19

Oh man! This is one of my all-time fave Kung Fu films. I remember rushing home from my paper delivery route so that I could enjoy the brutal and mind-blasting Kung Fu action-blast that was known as "Action Kung Fu Theatre" on Buffalo 29. This was in the early eighties before uptight network executives sold every last minute of air time to infomercials and dull reality television shows.

If you watch any of the classic Shaw Brothers films today, they will take you back to those golden pre-teen years when late night television exploded with great Kung Fu action.

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Silver Fox kicks about 10-12 times in this one.......2006-07-28

If you are new to the genre, then I will let you know that is not very good. The whole movie just sorts of drags along, and drags and drags and drags. I remember seeing a trailer for this and "raging rivals of the dragon". What I rememebr is how many kicks flew in one. This was not it. How the hell I sat through this whole thing, I will never know.

Secrets of Billy Chong, Vol. 2: Kung Fu Executioner/Sun Dragon

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Secrets of Billy Chong, Vol. 2: Kung Fu Executioner/Sun Dragon
Starring: Secrets of the Yangtze Collection
Manufacturer: Ground Zero
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Kung Fu Executioners: The original Soul brothers of Kung Fu Billy Chong & Carl Scott take their unique blend of martial arts action to the mean streets of Shanghai for this hard hitting martial arts masterpiece, "Kung Fu Executioners" also known as "Black Jim Smashes All" in certain territories. The streets of Shanghai run red with blood as our two heroes bring justice to town using both their deadly martial arts skills and a variety of martial arts weapons. Sun Dragon: The Far East meets the Wild West in this action packed adventure starring the dynamic duo of Billy Chong & Carl Scott, in "Sun Dragon", also known in some countries as "A Hard Way To Die".

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The Executioner 2: Karate Inferno
Starring: Sonny Chiba , Ryo Ikebe , Makoto Sato , Etsuko Shihomi , and Tetsuro Tanba
Director: Teruo Ishii
Manufacturer: Adness
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ASIN: B000A1INA8
Release Date: 2005-10-11

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When a priceless jewel owned by rich heiress Sabine is stolen, along with her daughter, Professional thief and hired killer Ryuichi Koga and his gang are hired to retrieve both. At a ransom exchange, the team save the girl but lose the money and the jewel. When Sabine decides to deal directly with the thieves and obtains the jewel on her own by paying the ransom, Koga, having been stiffed of his fee by Sabine, steals the jewel. Little does he know, it's a fake. Now, Koga and the team must break into a high security bank to steal the real jewel.

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Kung Fu Executioner
Starring: Billy Chong , and Carl R. Scott
Manufacturer: Crash Cinema Media
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ASIN: B0002IQN9C
Release Date: 2004-09-21

The Executioner/The Executioner II: Karate Inferno

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The Executioner/The Executioner II: Karate Inferno
Starring: Executioner 2pak
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ASIN: B000A1INB2
Release Date: 2005-10-11

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THE EXECUTIONER: When regular police procedure fails, an ex-police captain recruits a ragtag group of convicts to take down a deadly group of drug smugglers. Led by a martial arts expert, they quickly shoot their way through the Japanese underworld, ever closer to their main target and goal! THE EXECUTIONER II: Professional killer Ryuichi Koga and his gang are back and this time they are hired to steal a priceless diamond from a wheel-chaired bound woman who may be working with the mafia.

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Kung Fu Executioner

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ASIN: B000EDH6O6

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Billy Chong ("Black Belt Karate", "Crystal Fist") plays Li, a Chinese immigrant who comes to an Old West town looking for his uncle and gets more than he bargained for when he runs into a group of racists who have killed Tommy's (Carl Scott, "Kung Fu Executioner") family. With the help of an old martial arts expert (Leung Siu Sung), Tommy learns kung fu just in time for him and Li to take on the gang and avenge his family. Li fights American Indians, Japanese Samurai, and countless others in this non-stop throw-down as the Old West meets the Far East.

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Exploitation anyone?

The Executioner
Starring: Sonny Chiba , Ryo Ikebe , Henry Sanada , Makoto Sato , and Masahiko Tsugawa
Director: Teruo Ishii
Manufacturer: Crash Cinema Media
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Exploitation anyone?.......2006-08-08

I didn't really get this movie but will try to explain it.

Chiba is a ninja and is really tough and some guy hires him and a couple other tough people to steal cocaine from the mafia. They finally find where they are after a couple of run-ins and have their showdown. Yasuaki Kurata makes a cameo and proves again why I named him best screen fighter ever when he is under woo ping. Not under woo ping here but looks touger than pretty much anyone I have seen on screen.

So the story is less than average, though Chiba's childhood scenes are unuasual yet really cool. But you are going to love this movie for many reasons. Tons of nudity, Chiba ripping ribs out of people and bashing their eyeballs out. But the movie does have it's downfalls, there is a scene where Chiba falls off of a cliff, so he throws an anchor up to land so he can pull himself up. It catches on a guys leg and for the next 5 minutes yuu get to watch Chiba pull himself up while this guy struggles. I really struggled to watch this part. But you just don't get better than Sonny Chiba, do you?

I have the widescreened, english dub, so-so picture Crash Cinema version of this. It is part of the Kill Chiba 3-pack. Just can't get enoguh of him. :)

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