Hot Picks

- Ready for My Close Up 2019

- Talk of the Dead 2016

- Script of the Dead 2024

- The Bell Affair 2023

- Easter Bloody Easter 2024

- Velma 2022

- Everwinter Night 2023

- Main Character Energy 2023

- Stupid Games 2024

- Bittertooth 2023

- 4 Minutes of Terror: Night Slasher 2024

- Apart 2024

- The Abandoned 2006

- Becky 2024

- The Evil Fairy Queen 2024

- The Black Guelph 2022

- Followers 2024

- Silence of the Prey 2024

- Battle for the Western Front 2024

- Beware the Boogeyman 2024

- Subject 101 2022

- Driftwood 2023

- The Legend of Lake Hollow 2024

- Black Mass 2023

- Skinwalkers: American Werewolves 2 2023

- The Manifestation 2024

- Spirit Riser 2024

- Garden of Souls 2019

- It's a Wonderful Slice 2024

- Caleb & Sarah 2024

- The Thousand Steps 2020

- The Desiring 2021

- When a Stranger Knocks 2024

- Quint-essentially Irish 2024

- Son of Gacy 2024

- Saltville 2024

- The True Story of the Christ's Return 2024

- Whenever I'm Alone with You 2023

- Jurassic Triangle 2024

- Midnight Peepshow 2022

- Offworld: Alien Planet 2024

- The Swiss Conspiracy 1976

- Sex-Positive 2024

- Here for Blood 2022

- All Over Again 2024

- The Color Yellow 2023

- Des Töchterleins Leid 2024

- I Am a Channel 2024

- The Hermits 2023

- Murdaritaville 2024

- Inheritance 2024

- The Devil's Partner 1960

- Pareidolia 2023

- First Impressions Can Kill 2017

- A Killer Conversation 2014

- Star Crash 1979

- Strangler of the Swamp 1946

Kasen Chitai

Fire Line

Japan 1961
produced by
Akira Sagawa for Shintoho
directed by Hiromichi Takebe
starring Teruo Yoshida, Yoko Mihara, Shigeru Amachi, Jun Tazaki
written by Teruo Ishii, Hiromichi Takebe

review by
Mike Haberfelner

Quick Links

Abbott & Costello

The Addams Family

Alice in Wonderland

Arsène Lupin

Batman

Bigfoot

Black Emanuelle

Bomba the Jungle Boy

Bowery Boys

Bulldog Drummond

Captain America

Charlie Chan

Cinderella

Deerslayer

Dick Tracy

Dr. Mabuse

Dr. Orloff

Doctor Who

Dracula

Edgar Wallace made in Germany

Elizabeth Bathory

Emmanuelle

Fantomas

Flash Gordon

Frankenstein

Frankie & Annette Beach Party movies

Freddy Krueger

Fu Manchu

Fuzzy

Gamera

Godzilla

Hercules

El Hombre Lobo

Incredible Hulk

Jack the Ripper

James Bond

Jekyll and Hyde

Jerry Cotton

Jungle Jim

Justine

Kekko Kamen

King Kong

Laurel and Hardy

Lemmy Caution

Lobo

Lone Wolf and Cub

Lupin III

Maciste

Marx Brothers

Miss Marple

Mr. Moto

Mister Wong

Mothra

The Munsters

Nick Carter

OSS 117

Phantom of the Opera

Philip Marlowe

Philo Vance

Quatermass

Robin Hood

The Saint

Santa Claus

El Santo

Schoolgirl Report

The Shadow

Sherlock Holmes

Spider-Man

Star Trek

Sukeban Deka

Superman

Tarzan

Three Mesquiteers

Three Musketeers

Three Stooges

Three Supermen

Winnetou

Wizard of Oz

Wolf Man

Wonder Woman

Yojimbo

Zatoichi

Zorro

Small-time crooks Shinichi and Teruo somehow get involved with Shigemori's yakuza clan - but even their first assignement, stealing a bagful of weapons from the rival Kajigawa gang, ends in a bit of a bungle up, through no fault of their own, I might want to add, but everyone blames them ...

Shigemori wants to punish especialy Shinichi, but Shigemori's moll Yumi has fallen in love with Shinichi, so she warns him, and while on the run, Shinichi meets a stranger who out of the blue offers to help him and who wants to take him with him to South America to run a farm, too.

To finance their life in South America, Shinichi and the stranger decide to steal the bag full of weapons that started everything from Shigemori, but instead they find Shigemori's men trying to torture the whereabouts of Shinichi out of Teruo, so Shinichi and the stranger save him instead.

Soon, Shigemori's right-hand man Nakamoto manages to track down Shinichi - and he offers him a deal: Shinichi is to kill Shigemori (so Nakamoto can become boss) in exchange for his freedom and a future with Yumi. If Shinichi disagrees, Nakamoto threatens to spill the beans about his affair with Yumi to Shigemori, which would not affect him personally but Yumi. Shinichi agrees of course.

When Yumi learns about the predicament Shinichi is in, she confesses everything to Shigemori, so at the appointed time, when Shinichi is to shoot Shigemori, Shigemori lures Nakamoto and his men into a trap and shoots them all. It's only then that Shinichi makes a rather ill-adviced interference, and suddenly he finds himself facing Shigemori's entire gang, and Shigemori wants him dead, even if he had promised Yumi otherwise. It's only thanks to the stranger that Shinichi is saved in the end, and the Kajigawa gang, whom Yumi has called in to help out, erradicates the Shigemori gang, but Yumi herself catches a bullet and dies in Shinichi's arms.

... and the boat Shinichi to South America and the stranger wanted to take leaves without them.

 

Rather routine gangster drama with shades of film noir, but the whole thing is well-paced, competently acted and directed, and it features enough action to make it a piece of ok B entertainment. Nothing special of course, but enjoyable still.

 

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

Feeling lucky?
Want to
search
any of my partnershops yourself
for more, better results?
(commissions earned)

The links below
will take you
just there!!!

Find Fire Line
at the amazons ...

USA  amazon.com

Great Britain (a.k.a. the United Kingdom)  amazon.co.uk

Germany (East AND West)  amazon.de

Looking for imports?
Find Fire Line here ...

Thailand  eThaiCD.com
Your shop for all things Thai

Something naughty?
(Must be over 18 to go there!)

x-rated  find Fire Line at adultvideouniverse.com


Thanks for watching !!!

 

 

In times of uncertainty of a possible zombie outbreak, a woman has to decide between two men - only one of them's one of the undead.

 

There's No Such Thing as Zombies
starring
Luana Ribeira, Rudy Barrow and Rami Hilmi
special appearances by
Debra Lamb and Lynn Lowry

 

directed by
Eddie Bammeke

written by
Michael Haberfelner

produced by
Michael Haberfelner, Luana Ribeira and Eddie Bammeke

 

now streaming at

Amazon

Amazon UK

Vimeo

 

 

 

Robots and rats,
demons and potholes,
cuddly toys and
shopping mall Santas,
love and death and everything in between,
Tales to Chill
Your Bones to

is all of that.

 

Tales to Chill
Your Bones to
-
a collection of short stories and mini-plays
ranging from the horrific to the darkly humourous,
from the post-apocalyptic
to the weirdly romantic,
tales that will give you a chill and maybe a chuckle, all thought up by
the twisted mind of
screenwriter and film reviewer
Michael Haberfelner.

 

Tales to Chill
Your Bones to

the new anthology by
Michael Haberfelner

 

Out now from
Amazon!!!