August 7
A high-octane revenge thriller in the vein of 'Taken'. A once legendary gangster Dong-Chul (Don Lee – 'Train to Busan') cleans up his past and tries to settle down to enjoy an ordinary life with his angelic wife Ji-Soo. One day, he returns home to find his apartment ransacked and his wife nowhere to be found. Discovering that she has been kidnapped, Dong-chul must return to his old violent ways to save her.
In the future, Mars has been colonized. A martial artist arrives to investigate what happened to his brother. A powerful mining company is the prime suspect.
August 10
Kawamura is a promising young man with everything going for him. On the eve of his wedding, he falls into a deep manhole. Despite sustaining a debilitating injury, he is determined to attend his wedding as planned, and resorts to social networks for help.
August 21
Maiku Hama is a private detective working in Yokohama. Hama comes to the aid of a Taiwanese waiter named Yang and agrees to track down his missing brother. Through a series of double-crosses Hama gets embroiled in a gang war and a revenge plot between the two brothers.
After his family is murdered, and he's left for dead, a farmer awakens in the desert and finds himself transformed into a savage warrior, with all the powers and skills of the ancient gods. Guided by his “spirit masters” he's given a mission; destroy Tital Corporation, the world's most powerful high-tech computer company and its ambitious leader, Michael Burroughs. Burrough's has discovered the technological remains of an ancient race and a secret that will allow him to open the Vortex and achieve immortality. Out in the desert, ancient powers collide with sophisticated technology as the Savage and Burroughs meet in a titanic struggle that could destroy mankind.
August 25
Before starring in John Wick 4 and Shogun, Hiroyuki Sanada got to showcase his physical prowess in his first lead role with 1980's Shogun's Ninja, a madcap martial arts caper energetically directed by Norifumi Suzuki (Wandering Ginza Butterfly) and co-starring Sanada's mentor, the legendary Sonny Chiba.
During the Warring States period, a lone man on a small boat approaches the shores of Japan. His name is Takamaru Momoshi, heir to the Iga clan, returning after ten years of hiding in China and fully intent on finding the ruthless ninja Shiranui (Chiba), the man who betrayed and murdered his father. But with Shiranui and his thugs now in control of the country, Takamaru must gather the scattered remnants of his clan and train in the shadowy art of ninjutsu so they can mount a guerrilla resistance, defeat the corrupt ninja and restore the Iga's honor.
Packed with explosive fight sequences and acrobatic stunts courtesy of Chiba's team the Japan Action Club, and co-starring Etsuko Shihomi (Sister Street Fighter) and Asao Koike (G.I. Samurai), Shogun's Ninja's frenzied blend of Japanese period drama, hyperviolent karate movie and action-comedy stands out as an unmissable entry in Japanese martial arts cinema.
August 28
Jonas Ambler is a rich businessman whose wife is killed by kidnappers, so he decides to get even. He hires a mercenary to find and kill the kidnappers. There's only one catch — he wants to go with them.
An undercover narcotics officer is killed, and after his funeral some yakuza break into his apartment and rape his wife, Nami, while looking for the drugs they claim he stole from them. Afterwards Nami attempts to commit suicide, but after being rescued by a mysterious yakuza she decides to infiltrate the gang and get revenge.
New to ARROW – Seasons
August 14
John Landis Selects (GB, IE, US, CA)
Here is a list of titles I have chosen from the gigantic Arrow catalogue. You'll find some documentaries, some martial arts, some horror, some truly great films, and some just wacky. You'll see the work of directors I've never heard of, and directors I love like Takashi Miike, David Cronenberg, Joe Dante, Marcel Ophuls, Fritz Lang, Dario Argento, Jules Dassin, Richard Kelly, Mario Bava, Michael Lehmann, and of course, Russ Meyer.
-John Landis
