Violent Fighters (1979)

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.

Released

1979-10-06

Genres

Action, Drama, Crime

Runtime

86 min

Status

Released

Directed / written by

Teruo Ishii, Teruo Ishii, Nobuaki Nakajima

TMDB rating

7.0/10 from 1 votes