Taiwan Black Movies at IFD & Filmark (part 14): Advent Commando 6- Naked Revenge

Naked Revenge was the title IFD gave to the international release of a taiwanese gangster movie in the early 80's. It was another of those movies that flooded the spanish video rental shops trying to pass as a kung fu flick among the avid audience who just wanted to see chinese fellas kicking asses!...but once you played it, you didn't find an average kung fu movie but a modern day gangter melodrama...

Naked Revenge was released in Spain on its original Taiwanese cut

I remember when I first rented it with my younger brother, he didn't like a bit and after 10 0r 15 minutes he left the room inmersed in a deep ocean of boredom...I was not!...I like it...I enjoyed the roughness & raw violence displayed...I was ( I still am) an easy-to-get-happy audience.

Opposite to many IFD/ Filmark titles that were quite easy to find on video in Spain, Naked Revenge was a hard to find one. In fact, the copy I own is the only one I have ever seen & I never ever found another copy since I decided to collect all IFD & Filmark stuff...

A pimp named Tattoer Ma

Then, during the Golden Age of IFD, when Joseph Lai made lots of money in the international video markets, Naked Revenge was re-edited, re-dubbed & was added new scenes shot in Hong Kong starred by IFD post-Richard Harrison regulars Paul John Stanners, Brent Gilbert and even Mark Houghton & retitled American Commando: Naked Revenge...years later, was again retitled as Advent Commando 6: Naked Revenge.

Advent Commando 6: Naked Revenge, the new re-edition starred by some of our favourite gweilohs was never released in Spain & I ignore if it was ever released in some other countries. I have searched for a copy but I haven't gone a clue about it.

IFD edited Naked Revenge & it was become into the 6th chapter of Advent Commando saga

Well, Naked Revenge, as we stated above was the IFD title for a taiwanese movie originally titled The Reformed Gambler, a 1981 production directed by Chui Yuk-Lung who was always credited by IFD as Steve Lung in many movies.

The reformed Gambler wasn't a fancy title for IFD...Naked Revenge sounds much better...doesn't it?

The original cast of The Reformed Gambler includes Tattoer Ma, Champ Wang & Paul Chang and other taiwanese popular actors such as Lung Fei, Chen Hung-Lieh & Chan Sing...

Oh, Cirio H. Santiago directed in 1985 a film titled Naked Vengeance that was released in some countries as Naked Revenge...obviously it has nothing to do with the IFD film.

Taiwan Black Movies at IFD & Filmark (Part 10): Ninja Knight Thunder Fox uncovered!!!

I have a special feeling for Ninja Knight Thunder Fox for several reasons. When I first found it in my video rental shop I got in love with the Spanish art cover. When I rented it I got a love-hate relationship with the film itself since not too many ninjas appeared in the movie but Mike Abbott's charisma got my heart!...later in 2008, when I first contacted Mike Abbott, he told me this movie was his 3rd work for IFD & the first one he did after Richard Harrison left IFD &Hong Kong when they finished the back to back shooting of Hitman the Cobra & Ninja Operation 7: Royal Warriors ( aka Hands of death), the very last movie Richard Harrison did for Joseph Lai.

Spanish VHS cover. How could I resist to rent a film with such art cover??? I simply love it!!!

Ninja Knight Thunderfox was the first episode of a saga directed by several directors such Godfrey Ho, Philip Ko and some newcomers to Lai's factory. Ninja Knight saga had suffered several changes on their titles depending on the country and the only link between all the episodes was Mike Abbott who always played the main villain in the 4 movies included in the saga. Mike Abbott is to Ninja Knight movies what Shek Kin was to the old Wong Fei Hung movies starred Kwan Tak Hing.

Since his first role at IFD Mike Abbott always got the most importat place at IFD pressbook & art covers...His name was placed before the main good guy & his pics were also bigger!..

Ninja Knight ThunderFox was done using a taiwanese gangster movie from the middle 80's that still used the same ingredients of the "classic" Taiwan Black movies produced just few years back. We can tell the movie used to design Ninja Knight ThunderFox is a neo-.taiwan black movie or just call it a post-taiwan black movie done when the subgenre was over but keeping the atmosphere & topics from those productions.

 Mike Abbott, Marko Ritchie & Peter Cressall

If you got the chance to see Ninja Knight ThunderFox you will notice the original taiwanese movie is full of unscrupulous gangsters played by ugly actors who seems real gangsters!!!!, then we have regular actors who spent the previous years doing gangster movies, usually repeating their roles movie after movie. So, we find here familiar faces like Lu I Chan, Mike Tien Ming ( Tin Ming) or  Lee Miu Chan whose movies were released internationally by IFD &Filmark. 

 For years, I have been looking for this ultraviolent taiwanese movie but in vain, I didn't have a clue about the title, I just knew some names of the original actors but it was not too much help. Then in 1997, my good friend Domingo López, one of the few real experts on Asian Cinema in Spain, launched his seminal book Made in Hong Kong where he reviewed many IFD & Filmark movies.

IFD new Pressbook for Ninja Knight ThunderFox...it is cool, but I still prefer the original artwork by Eagle Leung used in the Spanish VHS cover.

On his review of Ninja Knight Thunderfox, Domingo suggested that the original taiwanese movie used by Ho & Lai may be a 1982 production directed by Hui Sing Yue titled The Red Rattlesnake. It was indeed a good hint since some of the taiwanese cast of Ninja Knight Thunderfox also appeared in this film. But it wasn't the one used by IFD.

Original Poster of The Red RattleSnake displayed on HKMDB.

But today, I have finally found the film used by IFD to design Ninja Knight ThunderFox. Checking both art covers, we see Domingo's suspects were clearly in the right direction since both movies shows a very similar girl with similar suits plus many of the same cast are in both movies...

Original Taiwanese art cover of the film used by IFD to design Ninja Knight Thunderfox. An English translation of the chinese title would be highly appreciated.

The only problems now is to translate the original chinese title into English or guess if this film got any international english title...ah, I forgot...another problem is to get a copy of it. I guessed which movie was used bought by Joseph Lai but the real challenge now is to get a copy of it & check if the original print also contains the same level of violence & sex as the ones showed in the re-edited version of IFD's Ninja Knight Thunderfox.

Special Thanks to Teddy Wong, editor of HKMDB for sharing the original taiwanese covers!

La trilogia Robovampire pon Ton

Hace ya un par de semanas que no he podido actualizar el blog debido a diversos problemillas familiares y económicos que poco a poco durante los últimos dias se han ido solventando gracias a Dios. Y aunque tengo algunos posts preparados para seguir con esta "aventura" de contar las cosillas que rodearon las circunstancias de la IFD y la Filmark no estoy todavia con ganas suficientes para terminar de perfilar esos posts, así que hoy tiro de estudios y entradas ajenas como esta de mi buen amigo TON que ha publicado hace unos dias en su blog.

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Vamos allá con Ton y su visión de la Trilogia / Cuatrilogia de Robovampire.

Tomas Tang es conocido por sus películas de insertos y su obra magna es lo que muchos han dado en llamar LA TRILOGÍA DE ROBOVAMP aunque para mi seria un tetralogía ya que incluyo a NINJA VAMPIRE RAIDERS aunque en este film no salga el mismísimo Robovamp.

EL DIABLO DE LA DINAMITA. Film de insertos donde a la película taiwanesa LA CIUDAD DE LA VENGANZA Tang le añade insertos a base de escenas nuevas con un tipo que se convierte en el "guerrero futurista" (un tipo vestido de papel albal y con casco de moto), vampiros chinos (que dan saltitos con las manos hacia delante, hacen Kung Fu y los ajos no les afectan) controlados por un ganster occidental con barba que tiene una raíz de Ginseng con poderes, ninjas que se vuelven vampiros, un niño-fantasma ligándose a una niña gordita y un tipo al que le saltan un ojo en primer plano, las escenas nuevas y las viejas son unidas por un guión de puro manicomio y secuencias donde los personajes de ambos metrajes hablan por teléfono. Por si fuera poco las escenas de Kung Fu son muy buenas, sin nada que envidiarle a cualquier película de Kung Fu de la época. Además fue reeditada en DVD en nuestro país hace algunos años., con lo cual es un titulo ideal para iniciarse en este cine tan casposo.



CONTRAESPIONAJE EN LA SELVA. Nueva película de corta y pega que llega a niveles insospechados dentro del cine más zetoso. Dos rubias (bastante feas) van a escribir un guión cinematográfico en un caserón perdido, una compañía rival para evitarlo manda a vampiros y mafiosos a robárselo (¡cómo esta la industria cinematográfica en Hong Kong!). Así que Tang tiene la excusa perfecta para meter a un vampiro que imita a Freddy Kruger, un tipo que primero se transforma en un ninja blanco y más tarde en el hermano torpe del "guerrero futurista", un monje taoísta que hace el payaso junto a sus vampiros en interludios cómicos que no tienen ni puta gracia, un fantasma que sale (de forma bastante gráfica) por cesárea espontánea de una mujer embarazada por un cuadro endemoniado y esta vez el kung fu es bastante pobre aunque entre tanto despropósito tampoco importa. Las escenas viejas son sacadas esta vez de una película tailandesa de muy bajo presupuesto.



ROBOVAMP. Tomas Tang esta vez coge una película de guerras selváticas con Saropong Chatri (una especie de Harry el Sucio made in Tailandia) y le añade nuevas secuencias rodadas con sus secuaces habituales (Donald Kong Do a la cabeza) y un montón de occidentales con muy pocos conocimientos sobre interpretación y a los que Tang incluye en los títulos de crédito bajo pseudonimos absurdos. Así comienza el delirio con unos gansters que usan vampiros chinos para el tráfico de droga (pero en que demonios pensaba Tang cuando escribía estos guiones) mientras que son perseguidos por la Interpol (vestidos de militares). En una lucha matan a un soldado que tras una absurda operación (donde usan hasta un taladro) se convierte en el primo pobre de Robocop. También tenemos una fantasma china que no es china, un supervampiro, toques gore, música robada de La Armadura de Dios entre otras y mucha, pero que mucha diversión.



NINJA VAMPIRE RAIDERS. Una pareja de ninjas occidentales que vuelan, visten trajes de colorines variados y lanzan bombas de colores, se enfrentan a otra banda de ninjas, por haber traicionado el código de las artes marciales (y lo repito literalmente), con idénticos poderes y que además utilizan los consabidos vampiros chinos. Mientras unas chinitas (el metraje reutilizado esta vez de origen Hongkones) y un gordo (el compañero de Jackie Chan en sus primeras películas) protagonizan numeritos cómicos y pseudoterrorificos huyendo de una extraña maldición. Grandes coreografías marciales, música que parece sacada de una peli porno de los 70´s, efectos especiales de saldo, un cerdo usado como arma arrojadiza, actores amateurs gesticulando a 100 revoluciones por minuto y muchas tonterías. Una digna sucesora de la trilogía de Robovamp.


Eso si, ya que en esta ocasión ( una vez más) he tirado de trabajo ajeno, entono un "mea culpa" añadiendo los titulos originales tailandeses y taiwaneses que Tomas Tang usó para estas pelis:

-El diablo de la dinamita fue un remontaje de La ciudad de la venganza ( The Giant of casino) dirigida en 1981 por Chan Jun Leung.


-Contraespionaje en la selva nace a partir de un remontaje del film tailandés Nak Kha Khon Taa Ngon (1982), dirigida por Phairoj Jaising

-Robovampire se hizo a partir de una película tailandesa titulada Paa Lohgan (1984), y dirigida por Vinit Pakdeevijitr.

-Vampire raiders ninja queen ( Guerrero ninja americano). En esta ocasión Tomas Tang tiró de una produccion 100% de Hong Kong titulada MIXED UP, una comedia vampírica protagonizada por la idol Agnes Chan, Deborah ( la madre de Nicholas Tse) y otras caras del cine de acción de Hong Kong.

The Undercovers have been finally Uncovered

Filmark was always after IFD. I mean if IFD distributed ninja movies, Filmark did the same, when IFD distributed modern day actioners, Filmark of course, also followed and so on when kickboxing movies were cool.

IFD used many thai movies as source movie for its "cut & paste" products and no need to say Filmark also bought a bunch of thai action movies to world wide distribution. Here we get THE UNDERCOVERS.

The movie tells us the story of a group of prisonners trying to scape & redeem themselves for their crimes & how a special commando traces them. We also have a thai spy movie about some missiles & a group of bandits trying to get them.

As usual in a Filmark movie, the new added scenes were directed by Donald Kong Do & ex -vemon Sun Chien. The actors were the same we saw in The Jaguar Project & other many films from Filmark althought his names were always different from movie to movie.

Spanish VHS art cover

Among the western actors, we have Brent Gilbert, credited as Brent Rivers who had worked previously worked for IFD in War City saga against Mike Abbott. Rivers, was from New Zealand, tried to raise himself as an action hero in a serious way. He played his roles at IFD with conviction & tried but failed to do the same at Filmark because he was too overacted on his movies at Tomas Tang's productions. Then he moved to the Philippines & he starred a very nice movie titled Battle Rats. After his filipino experience he went back to his homeland were he works in a radio station in Auckland.

French Art cover displayed at www.nanarland.com

Other Western actors from THE UNDERCOVERS were Paul John Stanners & Alan English, the red-haired guy from The project Jaguar. Both, Stanners & English worked for IFD & they also had roles in bigger productions such as Angel Enforcers or Burning Ambition just to mention 2 of them.
The Thai actors from the original movie are the popular Sorapong Chatri & Krung Svrilai who made hundreds of action films during the 70's & the 80's. Many of their movies were bought & released by Joseph Lai & Tomas Tang making them well-known among the people who enjoy asian trash cinema.

Brent Gilbert (aka Brent Rivers, aka Jack Gilber). Holding a machine gun Paul John Stanners & then we have Alan English who was Stanners artistic couple in several Filmark movies.

But the most important thing is I have UNCOVERED the original thai movie Tomas Tang bought to design his film. It is SAO 5

Original thai poster for SAO 5

Just check the two screenshots below.

Spanish VHS

Original thai dvd, avaliable on www.ethaicd.com

IFD at its weirdest film: Official Exterminator 3- Joy For Living Dead ( aka Ninja Knight 4- Joy for living dead)

If you thought Joseph Lai's IFD offered us during years the wackiest but funniest movies ever made in Hong Kong, you were right. But we have to add another adjetives to wacky & funny if you want to enjoy & understand a bit better IFD universe, those adjetives are WEIRD, BIZARRE, and specially for this movie, INDESCRIBABLE. What's the reason for this?- The answer is this IFD movie: Official Exterminator 3: Joy for the living dead that was also edited on tape in some countries as Ninja Knight 4: Joy the living dead.

sOriginal art cover for this bizarre movie. In some countries Official Exterminator was changed into Ninja Knight 4

To start with, what the hell means Joy living dead???? Who gave that title? Was Eagle Leung, the art designer hired by Joseph Lai to create his fantastic video covers? The reason for this title may be caused as a direct consecuence of the previous entry Ninja Knight 3: Heaven's Hell ( aka Official Exterminator 2: Heaven's Hell), a title that tries to take us into a supernatural, unearthly feeling but it just takes us into confussion and even misinterpretation since there is not a single zombi, living dead or ghost in these movies.

New IFD art design for this Philip Ko work at IFD

Anyway, the reason explained above is not a strong evidence to tell Official Externinator 3: Joy for living dead is the weirdest IFD movie I have ever seen. Just remember Ninja Terminator...Where is the Terminator in the movie? or Ninja Dragon Where the hell Godfrey Ho hid the dragon of the title?...and so on.
Then WHAT'S THE REASON to tell Joy for the living dead is the weirdest, most bizarre & wackiest movie ever produced by IFD?
THE REASON is the source movie Philip Ko used as main body. YES, that's the reason. We know IFD used Taiwanese, Filipino, Thai or Korean action movies as main body for its cut & paste films, but this time Philip Ko was beyond and he used an EROTIC BRAZILIAN movie for his new film.

Original brazilian artwork for Doce Delirio. Check the picture.

He could have used countless korean erotic thrillers as he used in some episodies for War City saga, he could have used many taiwanese erotic action films also used by IFD like they did in Golden ninja warrior or Rage of the ninja...but he used a brazilian erotic movie. The only non-asian movie ever used & distributed by IFD.

A snapshot from Official Exterminator 3: Joy for living dead. This must be the most famous moment of the movie since it was used for the original movie poster

DOCE DELIRIO, the film Philip Ko chose to create his Official Exterminator 3: Joy For Living Dead, was directed by Manoel Paiva in 1983. This erotic drama was starred but Brazil Diva Claudia Alencar who is still working in Brazilian film industry. Philip Ko & Joseph Lai, at least, kept her name in the credits & this detail has allowed me to investigate about this matter.
At first when I played Official Exterminator 3: Joy for Living dead, I thought the source movie was indonesian or just another filipino drama because the photography & screenplay from both countries is apparently extremely similar but there was something that was weirder than usually.

Back artcover used by IFD, the famous shot is also included on it!!!

Recently, Doce Delirio has been re-edited in Brazil in a collector's edition. Of course, this edition contains the original Manoel Paiva cut only. I haven't watched it yet, but I truly recommend to track down the Philip Ko cut because as I stated above this is the weirdest & most bizarre movie ever done by IFD. There is no doubts Official Exterminator 3: Joy for living dead ( aka Ninja Knight 4: Joy for living dead) is one of those gems for die-hard trash movies collectors.

Original brazilian DVD cover

Once again, I have to recognice IFD productions still amaze me. No other production company from Hong Kong offered such madness & entertainment at such low costs. We can't forget Mike Abbott became into a cult actor dued to these movies he starred at IFD.

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.

Uncompleted Filmark International Ninja movies List????

During years I have been trying to compile a full ninja movie list from Filmark International. I haven't got it yet becuase as all of us know Filmark was destroyed by a big fire on Garley's Gallery & dissapeared forever. I got many pressbooks from Filmark when some Spanish companies bought their films at the end of the 80's but as I said before, I haven't got a full catalog list from Tomas Tang's company.

Here I dare to publish what I call Uncomplete Ninja films from Filmark based on my own collection & the movies that contained Filmark logo. If someone finds mistakes, missing titles or just want to add a title, please feel free to contact me or just leave a message.

FILMARK INTERNATIONAL LTD NINJA MOVIES

-NINJA PANTHOM, HERO USA ( aka Ninja empire)



-DEATH CODE NINJA
-NINJA 8: WARRIORS OF FIRE
-NINJA AMERICAN WARRIOR
-EMPIRE OF THE SPIRITUAL NINJA
-TWINKLE NINJA FANTASY (aka Ninja fantasy, aka Ninja project, aka Empire of the ninjas)
-NINJA PROJECT DAREDEVIL (aka Grandmasters of death, aka Ninja masters of death)



-NINJA WARRIOR FROM BEYOND (aka Black Panther)
-SILVER DRAGON NINJA
-CLASH OF THE NINJAS
-VAMPIRE RAIDERS NINJA QUEEN
-NINJA THE SHADOW KILLER
-BIONIC NINJA (aka Ninja Assassins)
-NINJA DEMON'S MASSACRE
-GOLDEN NINJA INVASION

-NINJA IN ACTION
-THE THUNDERING NINJA
-NINJA FORCE OF ASSASSINS
-NINJA IN THE KILLING FIELDS
-NINJA EXTREME WEAPON
-NINJA THE VIOLENT SORCERER
-THOUGHT NINJA, THE SHADOW WARRIOR
-INSTANT RAGE

NINJA MOVIES DISTRIBUTED BY FILMARK

-LIFE NINJA (aka Secret life of the ninjas, aka A life ninja)
-NINJA CONDORS 13
-NINJA USA
-NINJA THE BATTALLION

-KILLER'S INVENCIBLE (The Super Ninjas)
-TOP MISSION

FILMARK ACTION MOVIES WHICH INCLUDE NINJAS

-COUNTER DESTROYER (aka RoboVampire 2: Counter destroyer)
-DEVIL'S DYNAMITE (Aka RoboVampire 3: Devil's Dynamite)
-THUNDER SCORE

FILMARK MOVIE WITH NINJA WORD ON THE TITLE BUT NO NINJAS AT ALL ON SCREEN

-NINJA KILLER (It is just a re-edition & re-dubbed version of a HK-Turkish co-production titled Kung Fu in the Bosphurus, starring Donald Kong, Bolo Yeung, Carter Wong & turkish star Cuney Arkin)


There is an Alexander Lo Rei ninja movie titled MAFIA Vs NINJA which is wrongly added to Filmark's catalog. This movie wa distributed by Golden Sun Films. Filmark has nothing to do with it.

If you own or know a ninja movie from Filmark International that is not included in this list, please let me know & we could add it to list!

Cuando Joseph Lai conquistó España

Hace cosa de dos años Ugoh, un amigote de ZinemaHK me sorprendió al colgar un catálogo de películas de la IFD que la casa IVS le compró a Joseph Lai en algún mercado cinematográfico hará cosa de 15 o más años. La casa IVS años antes de animarse a sacar la pelis de la IFD en España, solia sacar interesantes cintas de acción policiaca italiana de los 70's además de alguna que otra peli de Kung Fu clásico. Los que vivimos la etapa dorada y floreciente de los videoclubs alucinabamos al ver titulos que jamás pasaban por los cines. Y si alucinabamos con los titulos que no pasaban por cines, imaginense la orgasmática sensación de toparnos con aquellos films que si habiamos visto en cines anteriormente y que ahora podriamos volver a disfrutar desde la comodidad del salón de casa.

15 títulos 15, bueno 14 porque Comando LA es Coreana y no es de la IFD.

IVS no fue la única distribuidora española que repartió los titulos de la IFD por la geografía española, pero si la que más titulos y carátulas atractivas ofreció. Mas o menos por las mismas fechas VIDEOFORMA hizo lo propio con los titulos de la Filmark y la Asso Asia. Aunque vuelvo a repetir que no fueron las únicas, sino las que más sacaron.

Uno, en su vanidad y en la falsa creencia de pensar que en España estas cosas salian con cuentagotas, se cree a veces que se sabe de memoria todos y cada uno de los títulos estrenados en nuestros videoclubs. Y ahí es donde no hay un mes en los que no me lleve un palo ( bien merecido) al descubrir que a nuestro pais si que llegaron cositas, muchas cositas...pero muchas más de las que nisiquiera conocia su existencia. Titulos como Angeles con Pistolas de Oro, Naked revenge, Platoon the Warriors, Tanteo Final, El dinamismo del dragon, Rambu, Duelo dorado, Bruce Linito ( la peli de Weng Weng)...y un larguillo etc llegaron a las estanterias de los videoclubs de toda España pasando tan inadvertidas para el público de entonces ( y sobre todo para mi) que hoy mas de uno como yo piensa que tales películas jamás cruzaron nuestras fronteras. Y el último ejemplo lo tenemos en GUNS TO HEAVEN, un título de la saga Official Exterminator de la que no conocia ni siquiera edición foránea y que finalmente gracias a Antonio Gonzalez, mi amigo "elmaestroborracho", hizo llegar a mis temblorosas manos poco antes de mi
partida a Filipinas.

otro film de gangsters que solo incluia ninjas en su version americana. En España vimos la version taiwanesa sin insertos.

En fin, amigos, dicen que el DVD tiene los dias contados pero aún quedan títulos en VHS que recuperar. Y digo bien en decir recuperar porque a buen seguro son titulos, que independientemente de su calidad, no merecen desaparecer ya que son perlas de dificil ( o imposible) localización y más aún en nuestro idioma. Y ojo, que no me refiero solo a las pelis de Joseph Lai, sino a títulos de esos géneros que tanto nos gustan a los nostálgicos como la comedia sexy italiana, el Spaguetti western, el cine de terror europeo, las morbosas cintas de la transición, las pelis de Bud Spencer, por supuesto el cine de AAMM en general y todas aquellas películas que nos hacian soñar cuando no levantabamos un metro del suelo

peli de kung fu incluida en un paquete de pelis de ninjas

Gracias a Ugoh, colaborador y staff permanente de ZinemaHK por hacerme llegar este panfleto publicitario que me ha permitido averiguar que aún quedan pelis de la IFD de Joseph Lai por encontrar ( que la busqueda nunca cesa) en España y a Antonio Gonzalez por haberme dado una de las pocas alegrias que tuve en el 2008...