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Koga holds a pair of nunchuks and spins them around before grabbing hold of them again.
A caption reads: Sonny
A manic, shirtless Koga throws nunchuks around, wrapping them across his body and spinning them in the air.
A caption reads: Chiba
Koga dressed in white delivers a kick to a man while standing on a stairs landing. The man falls from the stairs.
A caption reads: Is
An old man with white hair throws a punch which is blocked by a man with short, black hair who throws his own punch towards him as he yells.
A caption reads: Back
Sonny Chiba, that deadly street fighter is back once again and he's more deadly than ever.
Koga beats up a man ferociously against wall, shouting as he hits the man with rapid punches and elbows to the chest.
He grimaces and yells before delivering a spinning kick to his opponent's face.
On land.
Koga is standing on a street at night when a blue car drives into him. Koga gets up as the car drives away and chases after it. He struggles to open the passenger door as the car speeds away.
Over the sea.
Funky 70s music plays.
A bloodied and bruised Koga hangs from a tree branch over a cliff.
The sea underneath him rages.
In the air.
Koga jumps off a roof doing a somersault.
And in action!
Koga spins and kicks an array of thugs who are attacking him outside at night. When two of them attack from the side, he chops them in their bellies.
Sonny Chiba, the karate sensation who is stunning the world!
Koga escapes from two thugs by jumping up and doing a backwards somersault.
Master of the death blow and bare hand combat.
Koga punches then claws an opponent in the face while standing on sand dunes near a beach.
His opponent falls to the floor covering his heavily blooded face with white gloves.
Sonny Chiba is The Executioner!
Koga stands over his felled opponent waiting until he has stopped moving before celebrating with a hand gesture.
Witness Bruce Low as he takes on a dozen skilled fighters single handed.
A shirtless Bruce attacks a series of thugs with kicks, chops and knees. He throws one of them into another.
Koga stands at the top of a flight of stairs fighting with two men in black suits.
Pale before the fury of Sonny Chiba's flying feet!
Koga does a flying kick towards a villain who has a large plant pot above his head that he's going to throw in Koga's direction. Koga hits the man who falls backwards.
Wonder at fantastic aerial acrobatics of the martial arts!
Two men leap over Koga at a great distance. Koga reaches up and grabs both their ankles bringing them crashing to the floor. He then jumps up into the air.
Koga, at night, does a huge jump through the air as two thugs flail below him.
A large explosion.
A white car speeds and comes off the road.
Come prepared for the thrill of a lifetime!
The white car falls from a cliff and crashes against the rocks on its way down.
Don't miss Sonny Chiba as The Executioner.
Dramatic music plays with brass instruments.
A caption reads: The Executioner
A caption reads: Copyright 1978. Trans-Continental Film Corp. Nationwide Consultants, Inc.
Arrow Video
Fists flurry and blood flows as legendary cult director Teruo Ishii (Shogun's Joy of Torture, Horrors of Malformed Men) joins forces with martial arts legend Shin'ichi 'Sonny' Chiba in this bone crunching double whammy of classic karate exploitation from Toei.
Ryuichi Koga (Chiba) is a descendent of the Koga Ninja school, now earning his living through more nefarious means as a gun for hire. When he is enlisted to take down a drug cartel alongside Hayabusa (Makoto Sato), a disgraced former narcotics detective now operating within the criminal underworld, and renegade Aikido master Sakura (Eiji Gō), tensions grow among this three man team of ne'erdowells as each come to question each other's motives. Koga returns in the even more gungho follow up, Karate Inferno, as the ringmaster of a gang of thieves plotting to steal a priceless jewel from a master criminal.
Making its High Definition home video debut, The Executioner is presented in both its original Japanese language version and with the English dub track from the 1970s North American release. Fans of the Street Fighter star will delight as Chiba pitches himself into a succession of freewheeling action and feisty fight scenes in this double dish of martial arts mayhem, all served up in director Ishii's characteristically lurid style.
Product Features
- High Definition Bluray (1080p) presentation
- Original uncompressed Japanese mono audio for both films
- Original uncompressed English mono audio track for The Executioner
- Optional English subtitles
- Brand new audio commentary by Chris Poggiali and Marc Walkow
- Sonny Chiba, Karate King, a 30 minute featurette on the legendary Sonny Chiba, featuring Grady Hendrix, Tom Mes, Chris Poggiali, Marco Joachim and Seiji Anno, from the band Guitar Wolf
- Original trailers
- Image galleries for The Executioner and The Executioner II: Karate Inferno
- Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Lucas Peverill
FIRST PRESSING ONLY: Illustrated collector's booklet featuring new writing on the films by by Mark Schilling
- Arrow Video
- 87 / 86 mins approx
- Teruo Ishii
- NR
- Sonny Chiba
- Makoto Sato
- Eiji Gō
English / English SDH
- 1974
- Japanese
- English
- 1
- A
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Koga holds a pair of nunchuks and spins them around before grabbing hold of them again.
A caption reads: Sonny
A manic, shirtless Koga throws nunchuks around, wrapping them across his body and spinning them in the air.
A caption reads: Chiba
Koga dressed in white delivers a kick to a man while standing on a stairs landing. The man falls from the stairs.
A caption reads: Is
An old man with white hair throws a punch which is blocked by a man with short, black hair who throws his own punch towards him as he yells.
A caption reads: Back
Sonny Chiba, that deadly street fighter is back once again and he's more deadly than ever.
Koga beats up a man ferociously against wall, shouting as he hits the man with rapid punches and elbows to the chest.
He grimaces and yells before delivering a spinning kick to his opponent's face.
On land.
Koga is standing on a street at night when a blue car drives into him. Koga gets up as the car drives away and chases after it. He struggles to open the passenger door as the car speeds away.
Over the sea.
Funky 70s music plays.
A bloodied and bruised Koga hangs from a tree branch over a cliff.
The sea underneath him rages.
In the air.
Koga jumps off a roof doing a somersault.
And in action!
Koga spins and kicks an array of thugs who are attacking him outside at night. When two of them attack from the side, he chops them in their bellies.
Sonny Chiba, the karate sensation who is stunning the world!
Koga escapes from two thugs by jumping up and doing a backwards somersault.
Master of the death blow and bare hand combat.
Koga punches then claws an opponent in the face while standing on sand dunes near a beach.
His opponent falls to the floor covering his heavily blooded face with white gloves.
Sonny Chiba is The Executioner!
Koga stands over his felled opponent waiting until he has stopped moving before celebrating with a hand gesture.
Witness Bruce Low as he takes on a dozen skilled fighters single handed.
A shirtless Bruce attacks a series of thugs with kicks, chops and knees. He throws one of them into another.
Koga stands at the top of a flight of stairs fighting with two men in black suits.
Pale before the fury of Sonny Chiba's flying feet!
Koga does a flying kick towards a villain who has a large plant pot above his head that he's going to throw in Koga's direction. Koga hits the man who falls backwards.
Wonder at fantastic aerial acrobatics of the martial arts!
Two men leap over Koga at a great distance. Koga reaches up and grabs both their ankles bringing them crashing to the floor. He then jumps up into the air.
Koga, at night, does a huge jump through the air as two thugs flail below him.
A large explosion.
A white car speeds and comes off the road.
Come prepared for the thrill of a lifetime!
The white car falls from a cliff and crashes against the rocks on its way down.
Don't miss Sonny Chiba as The Executioner.
Dramatic music plays with brass instruments.
A caption reads: The Executioner
A caption reads: Copyright 1978. Trans-Continental Film Corp. Nationwide Consultants, Inc.
Arrow Video
Fists flurry and blood flows as legendary cult director Teruo Ishii (Shogun's Joy of Torture, Horrors of Malformed Men) joins forces with martial arts legend Shin'ichi 'Sonny' Chiba in this bone crunching double whammy of classic karate exploitation from Toei.
Ryuichi Koga (Chiba) is a descendent of the Koga Ninja school, now earning his living through more nefarious means as a gun for hire. When he is enlisted to take down a drug cartel alongside Hayabusa (Makoto Sato), a disgraced former narcotics detective now operating within the criminal underworld, and renegade Aikido master Sakura (Eiji Gō), tensions grow among this three man team of ne'erdowells as each come to question each other's motives. Koga returns in the even more gungho follow up, Karate Inferno, as the ringmaster of a gang of thieves plotting to steal a priceless jewel from a master criminal.
Making its High Definition home video debut, The Executioner is presented in both its original Japanese language version and with the English dub track from the 1970s North American release. Fans of the Street Fighter star will delight as Chiba pitches himself into a succession of freewheeling action and feisty fight scenes in this double dish of martial arts mayhem, all served up in director Ishii's characteristically lurid style.
Product Features
- High Definition Bluray (1080p) presentation
- Original uncompressed Japanese mono audio for both films
- Original uncompressed English mono audio track for The Executioner
- Optional English subtitles
- Brand new audio commentary by Chris Poggiali and Marc Walkow
- Sonny Chiba, Karate King, a 30 minute featurette on the legendary Sonny Chiba, featuring Grady Hendrix, Tom Mes, Chris Poggiali, Marco Joachim and Seiji Anno, from the band Guitar Wolf
- Original trailers
- Image galleries for The Executioner and The Executioner II: Karate Inferno
- Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Lucas Peverill
FIRST PRESSING ONLY: Illustrated collector's booklet featuring new writing on the films by by Mark Schilling
- Arrow Video
- 87 / 86 mins approx
- Teruo Ishii
- NR
- Sonny Chiba
- Makoto Sato
- Eiji Gō
English / English SDH
- 1974
- Japanese
- English
- 1
- A
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Rough Execution
This set looks great! The only problem i have is just the content. The first Executioner is an awesome Enter the Dragon clone. Executioner 2 i think is one of the weirdest and worst movies i've ever seen. 2 is a heist movie that tries to be a comedy but fails terribly. It's a mixed bag for sure but 1 out of 2 is not bad at all.
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