Bad Movie Thursday

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.