Amy, after talking about it yesterday, I had to put down my pencil and dig out my copy. Left me smiling.
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 1:44 PM, Amy Harlib <ahar...@earthlink.net> wrote: > > > > ahar...@earthlink.net > I've seen Returner and yes, it is a very excellent SF action film. > Amy > *From:* Martin Baxter <martinbaxt...@gmail.com> > *Sent:* Monday, August 23, 2010 6:13 AM > *To:* scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com > *Subject:* Re: [scifinoir2] Movie - K-20 > > I loved Returner so much that, ten minutes after seeing it for the first > time on PPV, I owned it. > > On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 2:27 AM, Mr. Worf <hellomahog...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> >> The Returner is on my list as well. I think my list is close to 900 movies >> now... >> >> On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Martin Baxter <martinbaxt...@gmail.com >> > wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> Right off the bat, I want to know how he survived that initial jump >>> without snapping both his ankles... >>> >>> And toss in the fact that the lead, Takeshi Kanashiro, was also the star >>> of one truly underrated flick >>> "Returner<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2v4pWshsQ1U>", >>> and I'm there! >>> >>> On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 6:33 AM, Mr. Worf <hellomahog...@gmail.com>wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> >>>> This movie is kind of a cross between Zorro, Batman, and Desperado set >>>> in an alternate universe where WW2 never happened. >>>> Trailer: >>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHnJnoo6SCY&feature=player_embedded >>>> K-20 : The Legend of The Mask (2008) >>>> Trailer >>>> 4 >>>> comments<http://www.yellowcinema.com/j-movie-k-20-the-legend-of-the-mask-2008/#comments> >>>> >>>> Posted by tarc on Aug 7, 2010 in >>>> Action<http://www.yellowcinema.com/category/genre/action/> >>>> , Adventure <http://www.yellowcinema.com/category/genre/adventure/>, >>>> Crime <http://www.yellowcinema.com/category/genre/crime/>, >>>> Drama<http://www.yellowcinema.com/category/genre/drama-movies/> >>>> >>>> <http://www.yellowcinema.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/K-20DVD01a1.jpg> >>>> >>>> Its 1949 and World War II never happened. Nikola Tesla has just won a >>>> Nobel Prize rather than dying in obscurity and the Japanese Empire is an >>>> undying aristocracy where the rich sip tea out of bone china, while the >>>> poor >>>> die in the gutters. K-20, the Fiend with Twenty Faces, steals from the rich >>>> and gives to himself. But now, on the eve of the marriage between society >>>> princess, Yoko Hashiba, and chief of police, Kogoro Akechi, the fiend >>>> frames >>>> simple circus acrobat Hekichi Endo (Takeshi Kaneshiro) for his crimes >>>> and the poor sap is arrested and sentenced to death. But he escapes at >>>> thelast >>>> minute and assumes the guise of K-20 in order to clear his good name. >>>> >>>> *Also Known As:*“K-20: Kaijin nijû mensô den” >>>> >>>> *Director: Shimako Sato >>>> Country: *Japan >>>> *Language: *Japanese >>>> *Subtitle:* English >>>> *Year: *2008 >>>> *Genre:* Action | Adventure | Crime | Drama >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! >>>> Mahogany at: >>>> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> "If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody >>> hell wrote the script?" -- Charles E Grant >>> >>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! >> Mahogany at: >> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ >> > > > > -- > "If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell > wrote the script?" -- Charles E Grant > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik > > -- "If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script?" -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
