Look at the way Sonny Chiba was styling his boys, what an incredible mind he had.

Namco’s Mappy robot navigating a maze at a 1982 robot fair in Japan. Source: Film Archive of Japan on YouTube

Want to copy Famicom Disk System games in 1987? The appropriately named HACKER magazine will show you how with DISK HACKER. Just how rife computer software piracy was in Japan is a fascinating rabbit hole to fall down. And it extended to the FDS too with the aid of tools like this.

Finally an episode of Jetman I can relate to

Time to zany it up a bit

When David Chiang learns mantis style kung fu from an actual mantis? That’s what they call cinema.

#nowwatching The only film I haven’t seen by my favorite Shaw Bros director, Lau Kar-leung

Weekend

The way Friedkin feels about the song “Strokin” here is how I feel about the credit “with thanks to the Hong Kong Racing Pigeon Association”

Godzilla vs Spacegodzilla (1994)

My fav part of Zeiram II is the group shot where they did a casting call in prop-maker/hobby magazines for people to bring in their own costumes. Unfortunately there seems to be like next to no documentation abt this online that I can find

When it’s late but you’re in desperate need of a wild ass wuxia

Kikaider 01 (1973) Episode 28

that's right youtu.be/TJX9_m5mXaM?...

Posting Green Snake (1993) for no reason

we're adapting all of these 80s & 90s thrillers into tv shows or limited whatever, but you know what, make Sliver into a show at this point. let's get our voyeur on & meet endless apartment inhabitants. make a sprawling goofy show starring freak matching freak & an episodic ensemble high rise

Yes my birthday is still 2 months away, no it isn’t too early to start planning a multi day Sammo Hung movie marathon.

Almost forgot

This film features a fart joke constructed around a track off the Escape from New York soundtrack, during which I believe we see a stuntman die on camera. Incredible stuff.

It’s feeling like A Heroic Fight kind of night

Staring at the ceiling, thinking about a world where everything looks like the live-action Appleseed again

Staring at the ceiling, thinking about a world where everything looks like the live-action Appleseed again

座頭市あばれ火祭り Zatoichi Goes to the Fire Festival (Misumi Kenji, 1970) is one of the best entries in the series...

Tokyo Gore Police (2008) Just heard that Yoshihiro Nishimura passed away. The dude's work has definitely been a big influence on me, dating back to when I first saw this as a teen. Still a near perfect (there's some shit in it I could do without) splatter movie. RIP, 59 is way too young.

Mr. Belvedere explaining why they had to delay filming

Inazuman (1973) Episode 12

when you come down to it Godzilla is just the most righteous shit of all time

Japanese television from the seventies went hard

Godzilla being this ugly and crunchy and crusty is essential.

Kamen Rider (1971) Episode 73

And while we're talking 80s Twilight Zone, "Nightcrawlers," directed by William Friedkin (!), in which a Vietnam vet's PTSD is starting to come to horrifying life. youtu.be/CfGT4kzTevI?...

Friday night JAC-a-thon begins with The Street Fighter’s Last Revenge

Hell yeah

Sister Street Fighter: Hanging By A Thread (Kazuhiko Yamaguchi, 1974)

Hanging by a Thread: the title of my favorite Sister Street Fighter sequel, my current mental state, or both?

I've been reading a lot of 80's paperback horror, specifically those huge 500+ page epics where you meet an entire town full of characters right before they're devoured / mutated / go mad, etc., so I felt inspired to paint a paperback novel cover for one that doesn't exist!

Bio Booster Armor Guyver

If there's anything to take comfort in, it's that there hasn't been a bad design for any iteration of Kumo Otoko yet.

Yep, still rips. Best use of speed-ramping outside of The Hot, the Cool, and the Vicious. Love how everybody just tosses the little kid around like he’s a sack of shit.

Karate Warriors (Kazuhiko Yamaguchi, 1976) boxd.it/96W93F

yo... fuck yeah

In a Sonny Chiba state of mind (thanks to @cayce.zone), time to throw on Karate Warriors

This ends with me owning the rights to Experimental Doll Dummy Oscar

Godzilla vs Spacegodzilla (1994)

Once again, I’m begging you

endings that live rent free in my head (Italian edition)