14th January 2017, 03:20 PM
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Originally Posted by Boo Radley I was looking for a trailer for Sonny Chiba's Wolf Guy coming out from Arrow soon and came upon the whole film and just spent the last 86 minutes watching it. It's typical 1975 chop socky entertainment, if you are into that sort of thing. Chiba witnesses a man get ripped apart by an unseen force that then projects a tigers image and so sends him on a quest to get the bad guys controlling this invisible entity.
Chiba get to sow his oats a couple of times on the way with plenty boobs abounding but no bush, this is Japanese, after all, and beats up the bad guys a couple of times in that lets all wait our turn to be hit style that pervades all martial arts films. If you think from the title that he turns into a werewolf you'll be waiting for the sequel as there are no transformations here.
The first hour drags along only just keeping your interest with the occasional tedious fight or nipple close up to drag you into the last 25 minutes where after dubious surgery our hero now can absorb bullet hits and possesses phenomenal strength, including a coat that has bullet holes and blood in one scene and none in the next, only to have nice clean bullet holes a minute later, then back to bloody ones again. The coat was more interesting than the film.
The bad guys turn up with their spirit tiger, spirit gets shot, Chiba kills bad boss guy. The End. I think I made it sound so much better than it actually is.... | Sounds brilliant. |