Fist Of The North Star (DVD)

In the future, the earth has been decimated by a huge war. The surviving people crowd into small villages, whilst biker gangs roam the earth, taking what they want with extreme force. Out of the wilderness walks Ken, a man betrayed by his best friend Shin, who stole from him his girlfriend Julia, he alone stands between the forces of good and, well, just plain nastiness. And he does this by hitting people. Hard. Both an old japanese TV show or an old japanese movie, it doesn't really make much difference either way. This show relys largely on violence. Ken is a master of a long dead martial art, and can deliver deadly blows to his opponents bodies. ...  Read the complete review

Based on the incredibly popular Manga and Anime, Fist of the North Star was made in 1995, and was set to be the movie to catapult lower-grade action star Gary Daniels to bigger and better things. Sadly, as with the previous year's Streetfighter and Jean Claude Van Damme, things didn't quite work out that way, and Daniels has been confined to the Straight-to-video wasteland since. While this may immediately lose a lot of face for me with the anime crowd, I was never really a huge fan of the anime, it got really repetitive, really fast, and the only saving grace was the cool fight scenes, and even they started to get repetitive after a while. A lot of fans of ...  Read the complete review

Based on graphic novels by Buronson and Tetsuo Hara, and edited down from a multi-episode series, this extremely violent animated feature tells the tale of Earth following a nuclear war, where gangs of marauders prey on helpless groups of nomads. Not for kids! The earth lies shattered and broken, a ruined wasteland that is now struggling to sustain life. Humanity is near the end after a devastating global meltdown. The oceans have been boiled away in nuclear fire, the land is charred and disfigured, saturated with deadly toxins. Life is a nightmarish struggle. The radiation levels have created hideous mutated human savages, mentally deranged in their ...  Read the complete review

Before I watched The Fist of the North Star (the film, not the series), a couple of years ago, I had heard so many great things about it, and from reading various reviews, I knew that it was going to be a bit violent, but boy was I in for a shock. Of course, in the world of Anime, there are some pieces which go OTT, such as Urotsukidoji etc, but this was absolutely appalling, on so many levels... To start with, the plot was very basic in comparison with other good animes, it could have done with a much better script. However, I was absolutely sickened by one scene, where, the main character was "killed" by a gang who's leader pokes ...  Read the complete review

This was the first anime film I saw. It was different to any other cartoon I had seen before. Mainly due to the excessive violence that somehow captivated me. My favorite part being when two people have a fight in the middle of a field. The hero Kenshiro jumps over the evil beast and lets off some sort of a flash from an electronic whip or something (it wasn't too clear come to think about it). Anyway, Kenshiro lands on the other side. Villain is confused. 'Missing something?' says Kenshiro as he throws the villains now severed arms back at him. Sheer brilliance. The film is about Kenshiro and his quest to avenge his father and save his bird in a world ...  Read the complete review