Name: Gokuaku kenpô
Genre: Action
Released: 1974-06-29
Duration: 1 h 19 min
Rating: 5
Cast: Bin Amatsu, Masaharu Arikawa, Tsuyoshi Arita

This is a solid enough martial arts "basher" style movie, nothing special though. Some good fights. Too much filming from the waist up though and a lot of quick cuts so not on the level of some other films. Bit of a flaw though that the hero, although through misunderstandings, really ends up killing more Japanese patriots than he does enemies.

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