Samurai Cop (Special Edition)

Amazing. Best-worst movie ever
This is quite simply one of the most amazing movies I have ever seen. By no means is it a good movie. It's a good movie to watch but only because it is so horrible. The dialogue, the production values, the acting, the music, the editing, you name it and it will make you laugh.

Joe "Samurai" Marshall is our main character. He's the martial arts using, fluent japanese speaker bushido warrior cop who is going to take down the Katana Gang. This guy sports one of the sweetest mullets you've ever seen and also spouts out some of the sleaziest/cheesiest lines you've ever heard. He also doesn't speak japanese a single time yet they say that he is fluent in it. Between him his partner and a very... promiscuous helicopter pilot they take the katana gang on.

I could go on and on... and on about this movie. Joe Marshall's big speech in the restaurant is so intense it's hilarious but if I keep going on then I won't leave much for the viewer to see for themselves. The...

Mifune Needn't Be Worried
Yes, everything you've heard about Samurai Cop is true(that is considering you've heard anything at all). There's no reason why anybody, cult film fan or not, should like this film, but as reviewers have stated already, it's just too horrible not to be captivated by it. It's the kind of film a film course would show to it's class as a lesson in what not to do when making a film.
The simple plot is about a Japanese yakuza gang called Katana that finally meets their match in a newcomer police officer who is supposed to be a samurai. The Samurai Cop and his wisecracking black partner, Frank(they remind you of a micro budget Crockett and Tubbs), set out to bring the evil thugs down, but priorities are priorities, and it seems as though Samurai Cop's need to get laid is the top priority. Meanwhile, the lovable Robert Z'Dar is the evil second in command of the Katana gang and has made it his mission to slice the Samurai Cop into sushi.
You could call this a B movie, but that's...

Samurai Cop finally in glorious anamorphic widescreen!
The 1989 buddy cop film "Samurai Cop" written & directed by Iranian filmmaker Amir Shervan is one of the greatest & most hilarious bad movies of all time. Starring Matt Hannon as the Samurai Cop himself with Mark Frazer as his black sidekick as well as featuring B movie legends Robert Z'Dar and Gerald Okamura as the main baddie's henchmen and you can't go wrong. Add in Melissa Moore, Jannis Farley and former porn actress Krista Lane (going as simply Cameron in the credits) for the obligatory gratuitous T&A and things get even better. A completely inept screnplay, non-existant pacing, clunky action sequences (which often cheat by speeding up the film), a cheesy 80's synth score and all over the map acting contribute to one of the most entertaining of all bad movie cheese.

Samurai Cop was originally released about 9 years ago by the Guilty Pleasures label in a open matte full frame non-anamorphic transfer that appeared to be taken from a VHS master. The extras included an...

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