If you can get past the cheesy look, stereotypical Japanese mangled English and the often unpleasant violence, you may find something to enjoy in this martial arts movie combined with a mafia plot. James Iglehart plays a Vietnam vet double-crossed on his way home, being nursed back to health and striving to get back to his wife (Jayne Kennedy) and the infant child (real life son James Monroe Iglehart) and seek revenge on the mobsters who tossed him off the boat. The family reunion sequences give an indication that this could have been a a bit better because they do show a teeny bit of heart underneath all of the bloodshed.
Kennedy's real life husband Leon Issac Kennedy is the bad guy in this film, completely deplorable. Young Inglehart went onto his own success decades later by stepping into Robin Williams' shoes to play the genie in "Aladdin", winning a Tony. Fortunately, all he has to do here is coo and look adorable, not hard considering he did the same thing on Broadway. But this film is strictly for the martial arts crowd, one of those grainy looking films that collected dust on video store shelves. The action sequences aren't bad, but cardboard characters makes this a chore to get through. I found myself laughing at inappropriate times, another indication that this was not my cup of Saki.
Kennedy's real life husband Leon Issac Kennedy is the bad guy in this film, completely deplorable. Young Inglehart went onto his own success decades later by stepping into Robin Williams' shoes to play the genie in "Aladdin", winning a Tony. Fortunately, all he has to do here is coo and look adorable, not hard considering he did the same thing on Broadway. But this film is strictly for the martial arts crowd, one of those grainy looking films that collected dust on video store shelves. The action sequences aren't bad, but cardboard characters makes this a chore to get through. I found myself laughing at inappropriate times, another indication that this was not my cup of Saki.