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miércoles, 26 de diciembre de 2012

Robert de Ni...... nja

Uno de mis blogs favoritos de toda la red es sin duda AQUI VALE TODO que conducen Naxo Fiol, Victor Olid y Arazt Juanes, los desaprensivos que nos han obsequiado con ese libro maravilloso que es Malas pero Divertidas ( esperando quedo de una segunda parte o mejor aún, de un especie de malas pero divertidas pero sobre cine español u oriental!!!!)...

Ya tengo calado a este trio calavera del cine popular: Arazt es el que más tira de cine oriental, pero del "güeno", Naxo es el del terror y los monstruillos y Victor es el que tiene un gusto mas afín al mio propio...le gusta tó!...
 
De vez en cuando Aqui Vale Todo publica reseñas sobre las pelis de Tomas Tang, Godfrey Ho y/ o la IFD. Ni que decir tiene, que cada post dedicado a estos señores son los que más me gustan y no solo porque haya poca y mala información sobre estas pelis o sus hacedores en castellano, no, es que las reseñas de Aqui Vale Todo sobre las pelis de Ho y compañia no se limitan a reirse de ellas como casi siempre ocurre, sino que además añaden información o detalles que normalmente se pasan por alto. Y por eso mismo pedí permiso para cortar y pegar el texto y las fotos cortesia de Naxo Fiol que a continuacion siguen:
 
"El regreso del ninja" está dirigida por Jimmy Wang y protagonizada por Jimmy Wang Yu (¿ese Yu de más, significa que es el primo del director o él que se lo ha puesto para diferenciar sus tareas de actor con las de director?) y John Laum. El caso es que no la he visto... ni tengo intención alguna de hacerlo. A mi las pelis de ninjas que me gustan son las que sale Sho Kosugi o las que producía Joseph Lai. Pero ya está.
Sin embargo, el otro día localicé su carátula y vi algo que me llamó poderosamente la atención. Veánla....

 
 
¿Lo han notado?. ¿Sí?. ¿No?. Bueno, si la respuesta es negativa, ahora miren esta foto...
 
 
¿Qué?, ¿mejor?. Pues sí, creo que no desvarío si afirmo sin rubor que el ilustrador de la caratula de "El regreso del ninja" tomó esta imagen de Robert De Niro en "El Cazador" como inspiración para poner medio-rostro a su ninja protagonista.
Para estar más seguros, pongámoslas junticas...
 
 
Descarao, ¡hasta la sangre de la ceja!. El caso es que no deja de resultar curioso y, en cierto modo, premonitorio, viendo cómo ha ido evolucionando la carrera del prestigioso actor los últimos años, aceptando protagonizar toda clase de productos así como más de segunda (¡incluso una española!) que poco lustre aportaban a su envidiable curriculum. Dicho de otro modo, que como siga así, no resultaría tan descabellado encontrarnos a De Niro haciendo de ninja... y ¡para "Asylum"! toma ya. Sin compasión.
Últimamente han caído en mis manos muchas caratulas de estas sorprendentes, repletas de trapicheos sucios y demostraciones de poca vergüenza que, a buen seguro, harán las delicias de todos ustedes. Así que sigan visitándonos. En breve, more.

martes, 9 de noviembre de 2010

IFD / FILMARK Spanish Art covers / Caratulas españolas de la IFD y la Filmark

I am quite busy lately but I haven't forgotten the blog. I am preparing some interesting new entries such as new & interesting interviews, shooting locations pics & new taiwanese / korean & filipino titles used as source movies by IFD & Filmark. But as I have stated, I prefer to post them when I got a bit of free time. By now, I hope you may enjoy these Spanish art covers from my own collection.

-ACT OF GANGS ( La Ley de los Gangsters): Here we have another war gem from Filmark. It is a thai war movie edited together with new fotage from the regular gweilohs at Filmark: Paul John Stanners, Phil Dodge or Gregory Charles Rivers just mention few of them. As always, Donald Kong & ex-vemon Sun Chien took care of the action & they play supporting roles.

Most of Filmark war movies were edited on tape in Spain. At the begining of the 90's those tapes could be found at almost every video rental shops in Spain. Now they are really hard-to find ones.

-The Iron Fist Adventure (El regreso del ninja): I would like to know where the Spanish translator of this movie starred by Jimmy Wang Yu edited in Spain by Filmark learnt English. The original title is The iron fist adventure but the spanish title was The return of the ninja (!!!!). Hell, there are no ninjas at all in the production but a bunch of gunmen in some iced badlands of Siberia or China.
The return of the ninja??? No ninjas at all on this Jimmy Wang Yu iced adventure!!!!!

Well, since ninjas were everywhere during the 80's, the spanish distributor of this film tried to sell it as a ninja movie offering a very inappropriate title.

-Survival of a Dragon ( La supervivencia de un Dragon): This one is another lost rare move from IFD catalog. It is a taiwanese movie whose script might be used years later to produce Yuen Biao's The Iceman Cometh. So we have ancient warriors coming to our time to settle down their problems. Very nice movie indeed.

A very ugly art cover for an extremely nice movie from IFD.

-Scape to High Noon (Escapada Infernal): this is a taiwanese movie starred Elsa Yeung distributed by IFD. It is a patriotic tale about group of soldiers & prisoners during the japanese occupation of Taiwan during WW2. Another similar title was 800 heroes.

Scape at High Noon is another lost & rare taiwanese movie that has disappeared from IFD catalog.

MORE TO COME VERY SOON

martes, 28 de septiembre de 2010

Mad Moves: A werewolf is on the loose at Filmark

Werewolf movies are on their peak again. New movies about men who become into wolves when the full moon appears are popular on the screen. Tomas Tang was, as Joseph Lai is, a very smart bussiness guy. He knew what the audiences demand, he knew what people wanted to see & of course he offered them products that include the audience's preferences.

Sadly the spanish video tape I own is on Fullscreen

And yes, Tomas Tang offered us a werewolf movie entitled MAD MOVES (Spanish video title: Explosion Demencial / Insane outburst). The title makes justice to the movie since it possibly is the maddest movie ever came from Filmark and, it is for sure an instant cult movie in the same way Robovampire and its sequels are.

Lets start from the source movie: Tomas Tang bought throught his Filmark International a Thai movie whose title is unreadble (we can only see the word Wolf) to the ones who can't talk or read Thai language but whose original art cover is simply superb.

Sorapong chatri, gorgeous girl, a wolfman carrying a rifle, a white haired sorcerer,zombies, naked girls, ghosts: a true gem

Later, as usual, Mr Tang hired regular gweilohs Paul John Stanners, Brent Gilbert and others & used ex-vemon Sun Chien as supporting actor and action director to shoot 15 minutes of new scenes that were pasted during the original movie. The final result was Mad Moves

Guerrilla, gweilohs, Sun Chien, Paul John Stanners, Helicopters, chicks on bikes..Where is the werewolf? Come in and see, he is on this movie despite the art cover

Mad Moves script is weird, ridiculously funny & enjoyable, senseless but what we see on screen is simply amazing, specially when our local thai hero starred by the great Sorapong Chatri becomes into a wolfman during a priceless moment. There are no words to explai it. Lets see it through the following snapshots.

The dangers of Full Moon

No, I just forgot to shave this morning

A thick lipped thai werewolf in Hong Kong

Hey, honey, shall I invite you a drink?

Apart from his transformation, the clothes used by this thai wolfman were inspired by the ones used by spanish wolfman Paul Naschy along his saga about Waldermar Daninsky. Also his movements when attacking his victims are too similar. May be a thai homage to the spanish actor.

White shirt & black trousers: the most typical werewolf clothes

Get out of my way, asshole

Our werewolf, in a continuous homage to Paul naschy's Waldemar Daninsky is a lover as well. He is a beast, but he loves beauties girls taking showers & of course, he is a super wolf on bed. we can tell this thai wolf has a deep latin character.

I don't bark to the moon, I prefer peeping girls

I like cleansing myself for my hairy macho man

auuuuuuuuuuh

The ones who think ROBOVAMPIRE is the creative & surrealistic peak of Tomas Tang's Filmark should get and watch Mad Moves. It really worths 85 minutes of our free time.

viernes, 3 de septiembre de 2010

Caratulas españolas de peliculas de Ninjas/ Spanish art covers from Ninja movies

A juzgar por la cantidad de peliculas editadas en España, la IFD y la Filmark debieron hacer su Agosto en los mercados videográficos de nuestro pais. Dejamos aqui algunas de las caratulas de video que podiamos encontrar en nuestros videoclubs hace unos 25 años.

IFD & Filmark may have done very profitable bussiness in Spain during the Golden Age of VHS format. Hundreds of different art covers, some holding the same titles conquered our video rental shops 25 years ago.

Ninja Knight Thunderfox es uno de mis titulos favoritos a pesar de que los ninjas hacen poco acto de presencia, pero Mike Abbott tiene como villano un carisma especial que reparte en todas sus escenas.

Ninja Knight Thunderfox is one of my favourite titles from IFD. There is only a short scene with ninjas but Mike Abbott's screen presence & his villain role steals the show in every shot he is on screen.


Ninja commandments es un plato algo durillo de digerir si uno no esta acostumbrado a lo que entienden en la IFD por diversion. Las escenas ninjas son tan entretenidas como las de cualquier titulo de la casa, pero la peli de relleno es un dramón insufrible de la Elsa Yeung que parece que fuese escrito por David Bustamante durante su estancia en OT.

Ninja commandments is a hard to digest course if you are not aware about IFD ways. I mean, the ninja scenes are superb as always but the taiwanese drama starring Elsa Yeung is tooo emotive & dramatic for someone who is just looking for some ninja fun.

Ninja Destroyer es el primero de los dos titulos que rodó Godfrey Ho con Bruce Baron tras la retirada de Richard Harrison. En este film como en otros de la misma etapa se nota que Ho ya estaba cansado de Lai y la peli a pesar de estar entretenida no tiene el gancho de las que por ejemplo hizo Harrison ni la gracia de las que protagonizó Mike Abbott.

Ninja Destroyer is one of the two titles Godfrey Ho directed starring Bruce Baron after Richard Harrison left IFD. In this film we can notice Ho was already tired of Lai's impositions. It is a funny movie, indeed but it lacks something that was present on the ones starred by Harrison & it is not so funny as the ones starred by Mike Abbott.

Destructor Ninja...uuufff, a ver , a ver como explicamos esto: la caratula tiene la ficha técnica y la sinopsis de Clash of the ninjas que supuestamente no se editó en España, pero al meter la cinta en el reproductor nos encontramos con El Campo de la muerte, es decir, otra peli de ninjas de la Filmark pero con distinto equipo técnico-artistico. Lo que sigo preguntandome a dia de hoy es si Clash of the ninjas llegó a editarse en nuestro pais. Si alguien la tiene en español que avise, por fa!

Destructor Ninja...let's see how to explain this case. The art cover includes the credits & synopsis from Clash of the ninjas but when we played it we found Ninja in the killing fields, another ninja movie from Filmark. The question is: Was clash of the ninjas ever edited in Spain on tape??? After years looking for it, I haven't got any clue. If someone has a spanish dubbed tape of it, please contact me!

domingo, 2 de mayo de 2010

IFD & FILMARK Spanish Art Covers 2

One of the most atractive facts of IFD, Filmark & Asso Asia were their art covers. If we read the title credits of these films we can see the man / woman from the art department in IFD was Eagle Leung, whoever hidden after this nick can be considered an artist or Author because his works were interesting enough to make us people to choose the tape on the shelves when we were at the video store.
Quite often, the Spanish video art covers from IFD, Filmark & Asso Asia kept the original poster designed by Eagle Leung so even if the Spanish title was different, thanks to the cover I was able to find out & catalog the original one.

Now lets check some other Spanish art covers from IFD & Filmark non ninja flicks.

- Like IFD, Filmark also distributed Korean war movies without any pasted new fotage like this Operation First Team

- King of the prodigal boxer was titled in Spain as La Piel de un Asesino ( the assassin's skin) a weird title that has nothing to do with the movie but who cares, the original one has nothing to do with the story either.

-Final Mision Final was one of those now popular & hard to find Taiwan black movies (Taiwanese gangsters movies shot between 1979-1983) thaat was released in Spain on its original taiwanese cut courtesy by IFD.


- Equals against Devils is a rare taiwanese gem missing from the updated IFD catalog. It is a gangster movie starring kung fu star Roc Tien set in the pool gambling underworld.
This movie had to be a hit in Spanish video rentals because it was edited twice along the years by the same company. The problem was the second edition used an uglier art cover as we can see below.



-The Shootout was just a thai action-erotic thriller with around 15 minutes of pasted new fotage whose spanish title was Tiroteo Sangriento ( Bloody Shootout). The art cover showing american police officers & helicopters was pretty but none of them are showed in the movie since as I said it is a thai movie with a lot of erotic scenes.

- Battle for the treasure is a Filmark movie that used as a source movie a thai-Hong Kong coproduction starring local stars such as Norman Chu (aka Tsui Siu Keung) and Thai superstar Sorapong Chatri. This Tomas Tang production was titled in Spain El Tesoro de Kampuchea ( The treasure from Kampuchea)


MORE TO COME VERY SOON

domingo, 18 de abril de 2010

IFD & FILMARK Spanish video art covers

As everyone knows the video boom happened from the last 70's & it had its peak during the 80's. At that time, going to the video rental shop was real pleasure because hundreds of small video companies offered unlimited video releases under gorgeous art covers, decorated with colorful drawings, stunning pics & unforgettable tag lines.

Here you have some of those video covers from Spanish video releases.

FROM IFD

Futuristic desgin for Philip Ko's Platoon the Warriors. Such masked muscle man is not in the movie

There is no ninjas in Inferno Thunderbolt, but sooner, after this title, Richard Harrison had to deal with them along many films

Ninja the protector shows how ninjas want to control the pret- a- porter bussiness

Golden Showdown is not a ninja movie but was released under 2 different titles around the world. the alternative title was DIRTY HEROES.

This is the presentation from the UK tape

The spanish tape kept the original IFD title.

FROM FILMARK

One of the best first Ninja movies from Filmark used many of IFD regular actors & technicians

Death Code ninja can be considered a sequel to Ninja warriors of fire for different reasons...we will explain then in a near future!

Sho Kosugi's image was used in this collage for Ninja project Daredevils ( aka Ninja Masters of death) Spanish video art cover.

Secret life of a ninja was a taiwanese ninja movie distributed in the west by Filmark International. The muscle ninja & the machine gun are not in the movie but we have Elsa Yeung, Chen Kuan Tai & the great Kurata Yasuaki instead!

FROM ASSO ASIA

Secret Ninja, roaring tiger is one of my favourite Asso Asia covers in Spain. We can see ninjas fighting in the background surrounded by buildings on fire a la Gone with the wind , then Bruce Lee & a ninja figure above overseeing everithing!

The original title of this Kung Fu Lucha mortal is Strike of thunderkick tiger, a korean movie starring Casanova Wong. It is here because the back pics of the art covers included snapshot from Ninja phantom hero usa, another ninja flick from Filmark. This mistake could have been done due to the same company released both movies & they mixed the promotion pics!!!!

A korean kung fu movie was offered to us a ninja film due to some mistakes in the art cover

MORE TO COME TO YOUR PC SCREEN VERY SOON!