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Red Sun Rising (1994) (infosec.pub)
submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by klu9@piefed.social to c/bmoviebonanza@lemmy.world
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A.k.a. Red Sun Rising: Based on the Legend of the Death Touch

Tagline

Japan's toughest cop is in L.A. to track down the Yakuza's deadliest killer

Elevator pitch

  • Rush Hour but with less laughs and more laserfingers

Premise

A tough Japanese detective comes to LA to seek vengeance after his partner is killed by a deadly Yakuza ninja.

Trailer

Full Movie

Details
Unless otherwise stated, all full movie links I post are for free, no account required, licensed (AFAIK, IANAL) streaming VOD in English (or original language with English subtitles) and work at time of writing in my location, Mexico. Availability and language options may be different in your location. Asterisk by the one I watched.

  • I saw it on VCR Party, an Owncast watch party. I can't find it on any of my legit streamers here in Mexico, neither free nor paid. Check below for your country.

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Details
The 'nobraincellsleft' link finds legit stream sources from many countries, listed by two-letter code.

The Just Watch link lists legit stream sources only for one country at a time. On the web page, change the country to your location, e.g. change Mexico to Australia.

Neither is perfect. Check your preferred streamers directly, just in case.

Info

Personnel

  • Director: Francis Megahy

Cast

Opinion

Last night on VCR Party (Mastodon) this was the surprise showing (well, about 30 minutes notice). And you know a movie is going to be classy when the title appears on screen as Red Sun Rising: Based on the Legend of the Death Touch!

Don "The Dragon" Wilson strikes again, this time as a Japanese cop who must overcome culture shock (i.e. US racism and cars much larger than back home) and learn the Power of the Laser Finger. Actually the deadly ninja technique had some Orientalist bollocks name I can't remember now, but everyone in the watch party immediately dubbed it 'the laser finger' because that's what it looked like. Taught to Don by Mako, playing a fallen priest/uncle, who swills brandy, lives in a big house with a big pool and has two hot assistants now that he gave up religion for selling bullshit merch to dumb, rich Americans.

[Cue training montage]

The Laser Fingering Baddie is James Lew, the sifu from Shira the Vampire Samurai (previously on BMB), who even uses his ninja wizardry to make a zombie. He also like to snap necks in the most sensual way possible.

Playing Chris Tucker to Don's Jackie Chan (but with more sexy time) is Deep Space 9's Terry Farrell, trotting out the usual casual racism towards Japan typical of the era, until she and Don ride her giant convertible to Makeout Point.

Clearly emerging (about a year or two too late) from the "ZOMG Japan will be more powerful than us soon" panic/trend in western pop culture of the 80s to early 90s, along the lines of Rising Sun, Black Rain etc.

  • 0 out of 5 sharks. Not all ninja movies have sharks, you know.
  • 2 out of 5 ninjas. (Marked down because nobody was actually in a shinobi mask.)
  • 3 out of 5 Dragons. Not bad... for a Don "The Dragon" Wilson movie, if you know what I mean, and if you're a sucker for 90s action like I am.

Screenshots

I took none cuz:

  1. it's a watch party, so I couldn't pause/rewind etc for juicy bits, and also I didn't have the movie full screen, two thirds taken up by chat window, web page etc
  2. VCR Party is literally a VHS tape inserted into a VCR streamed online, with all the visual quality you can expect from three-decade-old second/third/fourth-hand cassettes found cheap at a charity shop.

Here are some from the interwebs:


What a title!


James about to give Don the Finger... the Laser Finger! (Right where the red sun don't rise?)


Mako teaching the Power of the Laser Finger to Don in a tank top that is frankly rather inappropriate for the workplace


I don't even want to speculate what Terry is indicating there!


No, this is not a Dutch angle from Battlefield Earth

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[–] Mim@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Oh, Quigley was on Red Letter Medias 'Best of the Worst'. It's definitely an… experience.

[–] klu9@piefed.social 1 points 2 days ago

You've actually seen it? Is it so bad it's entertaining, or just so bad it's a drag?

PS I see it's available for legit free streaming, might have to check it out