Date Watched: 6/18/2020
Starring: Robert Z’Dar, Mathew Karedas, Janis Farley
Plot: Joe Marshall and Frank Washington are two tenacious police detectives who seek at all costs to stop the Katana, a renegade Yakuza gang composed of violent and sadistic killers who want to lead the drug trade in Los Angeles.
Rules
- Mentioning “Katana”
- Mentioning “Samurai” or using a samurai sword
- Mullets <advanced rule>
- When you see wig man
Quotes
- “Oh, it’s up and ready, you just keep it warm.” – “It’s warm and ready.” <wink>
- “I want him dead! I want his head on this piano!” – “I will bring you his head and place it on that piano.”
- “I feel like somebody shoved a big club up my ass, and it hurts. And I’m trying to figure out a way to get it out of there.”
- “What happened? You out or in?” – “Baby, I’m always in.”
- “Is that him?” – “I guess so… looks like this is his last fuck.”
- “Well, this one’s dead, too. Not captured alive.”
- “Why did you go under?” – <crawling under gate> “I’m an undercover cop!”
Viewer Quotes
- “Is that guy the samurai cop? He’s kind of a douche.”
- “Wouldn’t it have been easier just to smuggle in the sword and do it herself instead of smuggling in the guy holding the sword?”
- “Why is this fight transitioning through completely different scenes? Sometimes there’s trees around them, then grass, then nothing at all.”
- “That guy’s pants are too high. I think we can all agree on that.”
- “Why is that guy caressing his gun?”
- “This samurai cop never does anything samurai-like at all. He’s never even held a sword.”
Things We Learned
- Samurai’s almost never use swords
- Cops can kill whomever they want with absolute impunity.
- Samurai cops are irresistible to women.
- There’s nothing special about Samurai cops. They don’t seem to have any real special skills. The name Samurai may have been a facetious joke by his co-workers.
Final Take: This was a good one. I think it absolutely took itself seriously at times, which is what you really want in a movie like this. There was gratuitous violence. There were soft-core porn scenes that went on way too long. There was stilted dialogue. It had everything you’d want. I definitely recommend it. I’d also like to watch the documentary about the filming of it, just to find out why that wig was used so frequently.
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