Rent The Executioner / The Executioner II: Karate Inferno (1974)
3.5 of 5 from 47 ratings
2h 53min
- General info
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- Synopsis:
- Ryuichi Koga (Chiba) is a descendent of the Koga Ninja school, now earning his living through more nefarious means as a gun for hire. When he is enlisted to take down a drug cartel alongside Hayabusa (Makoto Sato), a disgraced former narcotics detective now operating within the criminal underworld, and renegade Aikido master Sakura (Eiji Go), tensions grow among this three-man team of ne'er-do-wells as each come to question each other's motives. Koga returns in the even more gung-ho follow up, Karate Inferno, as the ringmaster of a gang of thieves plotting to steal a priceless jewel from a master criminal.
- Actors:
- Shin'ichi Chiba, Eiji Gô, Yutaka Nakajima, Hiroyuki Sanada, Yasuaki Kurata, Makoto Satô, Ryô Ikebe, Masahiko Kato, Michitarô Mizushima, Rikiya Yasuoka, Hideo Murota, Meika Seri, Kôji Hio, Hiroshi Nawa, Willie Dorsey, Etsuko Shihomi, Kanjûrô Arashi, Tetsurô Tanba, Yasuko Matsui, Tony Cetera
- Directors:
- Teruo Ishii
- Producers:
- Sunao Sakagami
- Writers:
- Teruo Ishii, Shinichi Hashimoto
- Aka:
- Direct Hit! Hell Fist (Chokugeki! Jigoku-ken) / The Executioner 2 (Chokugeki jigoku-ken: Dai-gyakuten)
- Genres:
- Action & Adventure, Classics, Drama, Thrillers
- Countries:
- Japan
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 09/01/2023
- Run Time:
- 173 minutes
- Languages:
- Dubbed, English Dolby Digital 1.0 Mono, Japanese Dolby Digital 1.0 Mono
- Subtitles:
- English, English Hard of Hearing
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 2.35:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Brand new audio commentary by Chris Poggiali and Marc Walkow
- Sonny Chiba, Karate King, a 30-minute featurette on the legendary Sonny Chiba, featuring Grady Hendrix, Tom Mes, Chris Poggiali, Marco Joachim and Seiji Anno, from the band Guitar Wolf
- Original trailers
- Image galleries for 'The Executioner' and 'The Executioner II: Karate Inferno'
