@@@@This comes from above: it’s strongly recommended to use a VPN for cytube. @@@@ There was a thread recently about VPNs and a few you should explicitly avoid.

You can read more about Peertube and potential security concerns here: https://hexbear.net/post/3471120

We will be using Blorptube tonight: https://blorp.bot.nu/o/visual_cuisine It is still recommended to use a VPN for Peertube.

We’re off to an early start tonight! Do you like coherent, well-told stories? Expressive acting? A plot? You’re in the wrong place. Tonight’s about Japanese gangster ninjas trying to sell drugs in your city, and how to stop them, judicially or extrajudicially. My approach to this collaborative cinematic appetizer has been to riff of of whatever @CommunistCuddlefish@hexbear.net showed the week previous, and if anyone else can see some connection between these and In Bruges (2009), I’d like to hear about it. Cud will be arriving fashionably late tonight, so I’ll be hosting most of the first half solo.

I first saw Mafia vs. Ninja (1984) at 2 am on a local UHF station a very long time ago. The fight scenes are very well done, the plot is incredibly flimsy, and the Wikipedia page for it is about the only decent source for information about it I’ve found:

Mafia vs. Ninja, also known as Hongmen jue e zhe (simplified Chinese: 洪门小子; traditional Chinese: 洪門小子; pinyin: Hóngmén xiǎozi; lit. ‘Mafia boys or The Organization’s boys’), is a 1984 martial arts film directed by Robert Tai. Made in Hong Kong, it stars Alexander Lou alongside Charlema Hsu, Silvio Azzolini and Eugene Thomas. The film was originally released as a mini-series of several episodes which was later edited to create the theatrical version. Both versions follow the basic storyline structure, although the mini-series provides richer detail and background for the main characters and the antagonists.

Two sewage workers, Jack Do (Alexander Lou) and Charlie Wu (Charlema Hsu), get mixed up in heavy business when their mobster boss is assassinated by another mobster who wants to control Shanghai and overflow the streets with opium, along with the usual mafia-related affairs such as gambling and prostitution. He is aided by a team of four professional assassins, the most notable two being foreigners: one an African American fighter called Mr. Jones (Eugene Thomas), the other an Italian knife throwing expert called Mimo (Silvio Azzolini). The other two are a Japanese swordsman named Fuji and a Ninjitsu Kusarigama master confusingly also called Mimo.

Samurai Cop (1991) is an ineptly-made direct-to-video action movie about Japanese ninja gangsters trying to sell cocaine in LA. There’s a vision to it, I presume, but what vision there is, isn’t well-articulated. I have never watched it the whole way through in one sitting, so I’ll be discovering it with y’all.

Again, from Wikipedia:

When a renegade Japanese gang known as the Katana take control of the cocaine trade in Los Angeles, the LAPD transfer in a “samurai” policeman from the SDPD to help tackle the problem. Joe Marshall has been trained by the masters in Japan and “speaks fluent Japanese”, but dresses like a commoner.

Full CW list to come! Full CW list complete:

Mafia vs. Ninja

• Sexual assault mentioned several times, never shown
• Kung fu violence
• Some anti-Chinese racism
• Gambling
• Drugs are part of the plot, but there is no drug use.

Samurai Cop

aggregated from:

Doesthedogdie.com link: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/112990

Unconsenting Media: https://www.unconsentingmedia.org/items/4579

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0130236/parentalguide/

-removed or sexual assault mentioned, discussed, implied

• Sexual harassment e.g non-consensual grabbing, touching, cat-calling)
• The film contains plenty of verbal sexual harassment (and violence) targeted against female cops and nurse.
• The female lead refuses the lead male’s advances several times verbally, then goes home with him and has a ‘romantic date’ that leads to tender sex scenes.
• Gangsters threaten to remove someone’s genitals.
• A female cop gets burnt repeatedly by boiling oil by the villain.
• Stabbing
• In a fight, a character gets his eyes pressed, but there are no consequences.
• Throat mutilation
• A female cop is tortured by boiling oil.
• A male cop is restrained and made to watch his wife get tortured and murdered.
• A guy gets his arm cut off by a sword.
• Someone cheats on someone else
• Audio gore
• Copaganda (however inept)
• Needles/syringes used
• Scene(s) in a hospital
• Suicide (offscreen)
• Seppuku
• Obscene language, screaming
• The black guy dies first. Minorities are misrepresented.
• Two graphic sex scenes, and multiple scenes where characters proposition each other.
• Nudity
• Car crashes
• Someone is hit by a car
• Gun violence
• Some police officers talk about busting a cocaine ring

Letterboxd:

• Mafia vs. Ninja: https://letterboxd.com/film/mafia-vs-ninja/
• Samurai Cop: https://letterboxd.com/film/samurai-cop/

tankie.tube links:

• Mafia vs. Ninja: https://tankie.tube/w/g3s5wgVHeRMfeZd1KwyqtZ
• Samurai Cop: https://tankie.tube/w/f5omkT6u1tKF2WHCydh611