The horror of kung fu

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Movie
German title The horror of kung fu
Original title Lo straniero di silenzio
Country of production Italy , USA , Japan
original language English , Japanese
Publishing year 1968
length 92 minutes
Age rating FSK 18
Rod
Director Luigi Vanzi
(as Vance Lewis )
script Vincenzo Cerami
Giancarlo Ferrando
Lloyd Battista
Tony Anthony
production Allen Klein
Tony Anthony
Roberto Infascelli
music Stelvio Cipriani
camera Mario Capriotti
occupation
synchronization

The horror of Kung Fu (original title: Lo straniero di silenzio ) is a 1968 twisted spaghetti westerns , the Luigi Vanzi with Tony Anthony staged in the lead role. It was created in an Italian-US-American-Japanese co-production and, due to legal problems, could not be widely exploited until years later after a few performances; the first performance in German-speaking countries took place on August 15, 1975. It was only performed in Italy in 1977. The film was also released as The Stranger and the Samurai on DVD.

action

1884. The stranger ends up in a gold digger camp in the Klondike, where a dying Japanese gives him a scroll and promises him good pay if he gives it to a certain Motori in Japan. So the stranger travels to the Far East, where he finds forms of life, nature, buildings and habits that are unknown to him. In his search for Motori, he has to deal with unfriendly samurai , the skirmishes of various criminal Tong groups and an American with a machine gun. As a result, he finds himself in the midst of Japanese clan battles between Motori and his relatives Koheta, where violence, betrayal and danger reign everywhere. The stranger succeeds in playing off the hostile groups against each other.

criticism

The unfamiliar locations give the film a certain show value, but the story is a very simple matter that moves the well-known Leone story to the Far East, writes Christian Keßler . For the lexicon of international film , the work is an "(e) infallible, between western and samurai epic, adventure film with brutal confrontations."

Remarks

The film represents the first amalgamation of western and martial arts film .

Tony Anthony described the film as his best, but (also due to the legal difficulties and the associated long time until the official release) was changed by the distribution and the production company (the MGM ) in order to do justice to the meanwhile changed public taste. Several of Tony Anthony's ironic remarks in his role as a nameless stranger, played here for the third time (after A Dollar Between the Teeth and Western Jack ), have been cut; the already taciturn hero is almost mute here, as otherwise only Japanese is spoken.

synchronization

The Berliner Synchron cast in 1975 under the direction of Joachim Kunzendorf , who realized the book by Lutz Arenz :

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Christian Keßler: Willkommen in der Hölle : 2002, p. 241
  2. ↑ The Terror of Kung Fu. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used