The Executioner

Original title: Chokugeki! Jigoku ken

1974
R
1h 27m

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Three street toughs are hired to take down a Tokyo drug dealer in this hard-hitting Toei karate action film.Three street toughs are hired to take down a Tokyo drug dealer in this hard-hitting Toei karate action film.Three street toughs are hired to take down a Tokyo drug dealer in this hard-hitting Toei karate action film.

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Shin'ichi Chiba

Ryuichi Koga
(as Sonny Chiba)

Makoto Satô

Takeshi Hayato

Shozo Saijo

Blazer Nishiyama

Hiroyuki Sanada

Toga as a boy
(as Hiroyuki Shimosawa)

Yutaka Nakajima

Emi Masahiko
(as Doris Nakajima)

Masahiko Tsugawa

Mario Mizuhara

Eiji Gô

Ichiro Sakura

Michitarô Mizushima

Hakusessai Koga

Hiroshi Nawa

Boss

Jô Shiraishi

Jaguar Mitsuda

Rikiya Yasuoka

Lone wolf

Hideo Murota

Boss (Goryukai Chairman)

Meika Seri

Bossis Mistress

Takashi Hio

Bunshô Chin
(as Kôji Hio)

Toshiyuki Tsuchiyama

Subordinate

Tsutomu Harada

Crazy Hardy
(as Riki Harada)

Kazuyuki Saito

Hair

Genji Kawai

Director of Nihon Shinden Kempokan

Director
- Teruo Ishii
Writer
- Teruo Ishii
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Followed by The Executioner II: Karate Inferno (1974)

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7/10

fast and terribly bloody

I'm not really in love with karate but I have to say that Sonny Chiba has a certain charm and really can fight (and dance). There is a story but it is not very interesting so it is all about the fighting and its great fun. Straightaway we notice that this is not just long silent fights, they are fast and terribly bloody. There is some humour which is copied later by Jackie Chan, even during that ferocious fighting Teruo Ishii manages to find some car crashes and some sex to keep everything going. Actually the sex scenes are rather good and the fights. Chiba was just 20 when he was found by a talent search from Toei Studios and he made almost 200 films. Not only was he good at karate, getting a black belt, but also did judo and kenpo. Tarantino loved him and of course put him in both of his Kill Bill films.