Wolf Guy (Urufu gai: Moero okami-otoko)

Okay, first of all, damn you, movie and title, for making me believe I would see Sonny as a werewolf wreaking havoc or something like it. Truth is, there's none of that. But yeah, most of the film is about Sonny using his "mystical powers" to take down some bad guys who,…

Rafael "Mister Movie" Jovine

A nonsensical grindhouse delight of escalating insanity that hits the streets running with a ton of zooms, trippy music, manic camerawork, invisible body shreddings, secret government experiments, awesome bloodshed, and sweaty invisible tiger hysteria. There’s so much to…

Ian West

This plows through about half a dozen disparate strains of Japanese exploitation -- the wandering yakuza, the wronged woman out for revenge, the hardboiled cop thriller, the Western-meets-Eastern horror, the pop-art psych-rock youth film -- all only connected through each…

Liz

Chiba never transforms into a werewolf, but he does defeat enemies at least twice using nothing but stuff he finds in his pocket. Arrow's restoration is an eye-popping reminder that the Japanese put more care towards cinematography and production design than any of their…

laird

Sonny Chiba in quite honestly the wierdest movie I have seen him in a a last bastion of a Lycanthrop clan. I remember wondering what his occupation was to be involved and we only find out at around the 40 minutes.. 40!!! This movie has sick fashion thou and eventually come…

pirateneckbeard

Idk, I think this movie was about TIGERS AND SYPHILIS!!!!!!!! For all my fellow surgical gore lovers, there’s a really great scene in this that uses footage from a real surgery, with pretty inverted colors :)   ﮩـﮩﮩ٨ـ🫀ﮩ٨ـﮩﮩ٨ـ    ﮩـﮩﮩ٨ـ🫀ﮩ٨ـﮩﮩ٨ـ    ﮩـﮩﮩ٨ـ🫀ﮩ٨ـﮩﮩ٨ـ

Lexxx

That awkward moment when lycanthropy and syphilis meet for the first time.

CinemaVoid 🏴‍☠️

The second part to The Searchers Film Podcast coverage of horror-adjacent things for spooky season is... Urufu gai! First we answer MULTIPLE mailbags, then we discuss Sonny Chiba's career, Japanese cinema, noirror, and potential influences for this film. Somehow there are…

Ziglet_mir

Computer, show me the 70s in its purest form. Oh it's this?

Carlo Vanstiphout