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Actors: Lance Henriksen, John Fujioka, John Saxon, Duncan Regehr, Henry Cele, Arabella Holzbog, Lisa Eilbacher
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A Japanese gazillionaire businessman goes to Africa to find the truth about a samurai ancestor. He goes on safari with his apprentice, a borderline psycho Vietnam vet mercenary and his girlfriend, a wealthy Arab and his American wife, and a Vietam vet hunter. They run afoul of African rebels and there is action, mayhem, discussions of honor, personal revelations. An interesting premise with an interesting cast, but flaws and weaknesses in the filmmaking keep it from being very good. There are a couple of good Kendo and Bo staff fighting scenes, though.
--Zorikh Lequidre, Resident Scholar
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Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 30%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 50%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 20%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1980's-1999
Wilderness adventure
Yes
Plotlets:
- searching for treasure
- hunted by injuns
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- infantry soldier
Age:
- 40's-50's
Eccentric:
Yes
- eccentric
- obsessed
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Body type
- muscular (man)
Unclothed?
- Chest
Events of movie makes character more...
- sensitive
- aggressive
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- very athletic
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- bald
Hair style
- (man) bald
Body type
- average build (man)
How much in movie?
- 90%-100%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Japanese
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 40's-50's
Profession/status:
- dictator
Eccentric:
Yes
- eccentric
- obsessed
- deluded
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 40%
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard curly
Body type
- muscular (man)
unclothed?
- chest
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Black
Intelligence
- Very much smarter than other characters
Physique
- very athletic
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Setting
Asia/Pacific
Yes
Asian country:
- Japan
Africa
Yes
Part of Africa:
- Black Africa
Jungles?
Yes
Desert?
Yes
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- very gory visuals of deaths and torture
Movie makes you feel...
- all mixed up
How many deaths in film?
- dozens
Kind of violence:
- land battles
- mission to rescue
- mission to destroy something
- mission to protect something
- karate chop
- hand to hand
- guns
- knives
- swords
Unusual forms of death
- dropped from large heights
- diced
- impaled
- perforation--bullets
- perforation--swords/knives
- blunt clubbing (like seals)
Lot of special effects?
Yes
Kinds of F/X
- exploding vehicles
- exploding bombs
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