Tokyo Gore Police

0:23 Unknown Good evening and welcome to Horror. I'm Lee.

0:26 Chris I'm Chris.

0:28 Adam I'm Adam.

0:30 Lee Ooh, and we are here for I've been wanting to cover this film with Chris for so long.

0:36 Lee But I didn't want to scare him off.

0:38 Chris I thought You want to cover me with this film?

0:43 Adam Just to obscure you possibly, I don't know.

0:47 Lee so I have ended up down a two-week rabbit hole of so much stuff, that I will get into, when it is my turn.

0:58 Lee But before I get all carried away and excited, Chris, what have you been watching?

1:04 Chris Well, thanks to Adam, probably predominantly, I've been watching what we're doing in the Shadows.

1:50 Lee Yay!

1:51 Adam Oh, yeah.

1:52 Chris Yeah, so the last episode I watched was the Baron Night Out on the Town.

1:59 Adam that's like.

2:02 Chris It is just just great quality entertainment, isn't it?

2:06 Adam Oh.

2:06 Chris You know, and an ancient vampire Baron wanting to eat and he's Baron because he's got no penis, you know.

2:15 Chris And and he wants to eat the pizza pie.

2:17 Lee Yeah.

2:18 Chris Yeah, that's what he's going to do and they're all sucking on drug blood, we've had we've had the drug blood, yeah.

2:26 Chris It's just, yeah, you're not going wrong really.

2:30 Adam The thing is,

2:30 Lee It,

2:31 Adam we drank we drank blood of people who are on drugs. Now we're on drugs.

2:36 Chris Yeah.

2:37 Chris But how, how's, I surely that's happened in another vampire thing before, and yet, I was like, I don't think I've seen anything.

2:45 Adam There's a lot.

2:46 Adam This is this is going to help me a bit, there's a line in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

2:52 Chris We need more of those sound effects.

2:58 Adam You might get more.

2:59 Adam You're bargained for when she's got a.

3:01 Lee Oh, sorry.

3:02 Adam I'm going to cover for it.

3:03 Adam Right.

3:04 Adam

3:06 Adam But yeah, yeah there's a line in Buffy the Vampire Slayer where Spike says he was at Woodstock and he what was it? I fed off a flower person and then spent the next two days watching my hand move.

3:25 Lee Yeah.

3:25 Chris Now, now just to get a bit controversial, is Spike he who must not be named?

3:29 Adam hey.

3:32 Chris So, it's when when Spike stands up for himself.

3:36 Chris Yeah, he is.

3:38 Chris No, I think he's in.

3:40 Chris Oh okay.

3:42 Chris Yeah, Yeah.

3:43 Adam Yeah.

3:44 Adam Yeah, he's Danny Trejo.

3:47 Chris okay.

3:47 Adam Yeah.

3:50 Chris Okay.

3:52 Adam Yeah.

3:53 Chris No, no.

3:54 Adam But he's in.

3:55 Chris He's like,

3:55 Adam but he's in quite a few things, isn't he?

3:58 Chris Like yeah.

3:59 Adam Yeah, but Book of Boba Fett, I think it's almost entirely directed by Robert Rodriguez.

4:02 Adam So technically,

4:05 Adam Danny Trejo has to be there.

4:08 Lee Yeah.

4:08 Adam It's I don't know what blood pack it is.

4:10 Adam But yeah.

4:11 Adam It's a feature.

4:12 Chris But was he in was he in was it Dusk till Dawn?

4:14 Adam Yeah.

4:15 Chris Yeah.

4:15 Chris Okay.

4:16 Adam He's in From Dusk till Dawn.

4:18 Adam Oh, right.

4:19 Adam He's he in From Dusk till Dawn? Yeah, I'm sure he is.

4:20 Lee Yeah, he is.

4:21 Adam Yeah.

4:22 Lee But obviously Machete, Machete kills.

4:26 Lee So, yeah, Danny Trejo is fantastic.

4:29 Adam He is.

4:31 Lee so Adam, what have you been watching?

4:37 Adam so I, I assume you is that all you've been watching, Chris? Anything else or just?

4:43 Chris well, I've also been watching Foundation, but that's that's not it's not really horror, so it's okay we can we can move on.

4:51 Chris But it's I I would say every episode is getting way better so if anyone does have Apple TV, you like sci-fi, fairly serious sci-fi with some maths thrown in.

5:02 Chris It's it's it's there, it's pretty good, I'd say.

5:05 Lee I have had it recommended to me and it is on my list.

5:09 Lee and if it wasn't for all the stuff I've smashed through in the last couple of weeks, I'd have even started it.

5:13 Lee But yeah, I will get to it.

5:14 Lee Definitely.

5:15 Chris The first few episodes, a bit little bit, wasn't sure but it's some good elements, but yeah, each one now.

5:22 Chris We we've got I think there's 10 in the first series, we've got one and a half left, and yeah, each one is like, oh, I'm tempted to watch another one, but you know, it's getting a bit late.

5:33 Lee Sorry to cut you off there, Chris.

5:35 Chris No, no, no, that's fine, no, I wasn't I wasn't going to mention that, but I thought let's throw it in there, seeing as Adam came back to me.

5:41 Chris But yeah, carry on, go for it.

5:44 Adam well, after still on a slight hangover of, John Dies at the End.

5:51 Adam I went back and watched Resolution which is a film by Benson Moorhead who did The Endless and,

6:02 Adam Synchronic and Spring.

6:05 Adam And lots of.

6:07 Adam Lots of I know Lee wasn't keen on it.

6:12 Chris Yeah, well, I I like the titles if anything.

6:15 Adam Yeah, well, that well certainly, but the thing is with Resolution is I think that is the one that might convince Lee.

6:21 Adam Because.

6:22 Adam It is a very strongly comedic film and weird shit happens.

6:31 Adam In that basically it's a guy gets a video from his mate of him smoking crack and firing guns in the woods and just yeah, so he leaves his he leaves his pregnant wife and says, look, I've got to go and sort this out.

6:44 Adam And she's like backing him saying like, go and see him, see if you can get him to go to rehab.

6:52 Adam Rather than go to rehab, he goes there, handcuffs him to the radiator, and basically says, look, you're going to go cold turkey on crack, and then afterwards tell me if you want to go to rehab or you want to suit your life out.

7:07 Adam This is like the last which by the way, sounds fucking deathly serious.

7:12 Adam But the interaction of the two guys,

7:15 Adam particularly the guy who is the addict,

7:19 Adam Oh, man, it is so fucking funny.

7:22 Adam It's just, yeah, it's brilliant.

7:24 Adam The best the best way I can recommend it to Lee is certainly is that imagine it's Henry Zabrowski chained to a wall while someone makes him withdraw from crack.

7:34 Adam It's very much that same sort of vibe and energy and yeah.

7:39 Adam But.

7:40 Adam The weird side of it is nicely weird as well.

7:42 Adam Because basically one the one who's sort of like babysitting him while he comes off, starts finding like pictures left around the building and like around the house.

7:57 Adam And like real to real tapes and old city film and things like that.

8:03 Adam And then finally at one point, while they're having a conversation, he says to him, yeah, but you sent me that video.

8:10 Adam And it's like, no, I didn't send you a video.

8:15 Adam And so suddenly they realize that they're actually observed in some way.

8:22 Lee

8:24 Adam And it's really fucking, yeah.

8:26 Adam And I would say, I would say give it a go, Lee.

8:29 Adam Because I know and I think actually,

8:31 Adam because the other thing with it is that I watched The Endless first.

8:34 Adam And Resolution kind of is a prequel to it.

8:41 Adam you don't need to have seen Resolution for The Endless to work.

8:47 Adam Although at one point in The Endless you do go, oh, fuck, right, now I know what these guys are doing.

8:53 Lee I remember actually, when we watched The Endless, I'm sure you said, yeah, those two guys in the shack have got their own side movie.

9:02 Adam Yeah.

9:03 Lee yeah, and you discussed it when we covered The Endless.

9:05 Lee So yeah, I I I might give it a go, remember you recommending it at the time, but I really have got.

9:11 Adam Well, I'd say that because also I think I think you'd quite like Spring.

9:14 Adam and Synchronic is just very fucking good.

9:18 Adam You know, one of those things where you just put it on.

9:20 Adam And it's like, this is.

9:23 Adam an efficiently told story.

9:27 Adam It feels like John Carpenter or something like that where it's like that's just you ain't fucking around.

9:31 Adam Here's the story, here's the high concept, right, you've got it, right, we're going with it.

9:36 Adam And yeah, it's really, yeah, I really recommend that.

9:41 Adam I like I like all their stuff, to be honest.

9:43 Adam but yeah, I really I really like that.

9:46 Adam But yeah, that was as I say that was kind of like a hold over where it was like, something a bit John dies at the end.

9:51 Adam I don't know.

9:53 Adam But it's got that because it's got that same character interaction of just sort of like, yeah.

9:58 Adam anyway.

10:00 Adam Also, and that was obviously.

10:03 Adam See, I've I've I've.

10:04 Adam sequel all this.

10:05 Adam This is great.

10:05 Adam

10:06 Adam And obviously that was that was if we watched John Dies at the End as my birthday film.

10:12 Adam Very kindly Chris got me, a Blu-ray of It Happened Here, which is from 1968.

10:20 Adam And it's basically a.

10:23 Adam what happened if Germany took over England during the Second World War?

10:30 Adam So basically we surrender and then we're an occupied nation.

10:34 Adam Same as France or whatever like that.

10:37 Adam And.

10:40 Adam It was it's fucking good and so and then it just takes such a dark turn at the end.

10:45 Adam Because it's like, well, much like Nazi Germany took a dark turn at the end, shall we politely put it or ridiculously put it.

10:52 Adam It's like, yeah, as and you just follow someone who's quite ordinary.

10:58 Adam And it's and it's really weird because coming out of the well not coming out of the pandemic, but choosing to ignore the pandemic.

11:06 Adam As it appears to be this the solution now.

11:08 Adam

11:10 Adam Is there's loads of bits where it's like they're saying, yeah, but.

11:16 Adam You know, they're rounding up people or, you know, they're they're doing this, they're doing that, they're killing people or whatever.

11:21 Adam And people are all quite, yes, I know it's authoritarian, but it'd be just nice to get back to normal, wouldn't it?

11:27 Chris Yeah.

11:28 Adam You know, or like, oh, I got an extra potato on me ration, you know, so it's it's proven it is worth it.

11:33 Adam You know.

11:35 Adam And everyone's kind of like, well if we just work with them, you know, that's the new administration, let's just get on with it.

11:41 Adam Because it's a lot easier than the fucking war was.

11:44 Chris Yeah.

11:44 Adam You know.

11:45 Adam And it's so sort of it's horrifying in that manner.

11:50 Adam And then you follow this woman through who's a nurse and I mean, I'm going to right people can skip a couple of minutes because I think I just want to say.

11:57 Adam Basically this nurse ends up working for the only nursing organization, which is a fascist run nursing organization.

12:10 Adam a couple of friends of hers have taken in.

12:13 Adam Because, oh, there's.

12:14 Adam partisans as well.

12:15 Adam So America is funding British partisans.

12:19 Adam So there's still like much like the resistance in France, there's people like out in the woods and stuff like that who are still waging war on the occupying German forces.

12:30 Adam So you've got that in there.

12:32 Adam And then she she just happens to know some people who get mixed up, well, basically they are partisan sympathizers, they end up having the having an injured partisan at their house.

12:46 Adam And it gets found out, they get taken away.

12:50 Adam And yeah, you don't see them again.

12:54 Adam And that's it and there's no explanation given.

12:56 Adam And she gets demoted and sent to the country to work in a different hospital.

13:00 Adam But it seems like a much better hospital.

13:04 Adam Because it's all like, no, it's not like the, you know, like London's sort of fascist lead thing.

13:10 Adam We don't believe in that here.

13:11 Adam And everything.

13:11 Adam So she gets to dress as a nurse rather than a stormtrooper and stuff like that.

13:15 Adam Which it sounds ridiculous, but it's not in the context of thing.

13:19 Adam And.

13:21 Adam Yeah, so she goes and works at this place and it's like a sanatorium in the country and they have a group of miners brought in who've got TB.

13:29 Adam Including a small child.

13:33 Adam And they give them their sedative at night.

13:38 Adam And she and like this nurse is helping out, they give them the sedatives, they give them the sedatives at night.

13:42 Adam And,

13:45 Adam Yeah, she goes off shift.

13:48 Adam Comes back the next day, all the beds are empty.

13:52 Adam And basically they've been administering lethal doses as would have been the same in Germany at the time.

13:57 Adam Of for ill and disabled and incurable patients.

14:05 Adam And it's just so fucking horrific.

14:11 Adam And this as I say and the film really it's brilliant and so well done.

14:19 Adam It was filmed over eight years.

14:23 Adam Because it's actually directed by when they started, the directors were 18 and 16.

14:29 Lee Oh.

14:30 Chris Yeah.

14:31 Adam And yeah.

14:32 Adam And in the end they were doing this movie and it got so sort of people were putting money in, you know, and everything else like and quite famous directors.

14:40 Adam Like I think Kubrick donated film stock that was left over from

14:45 Adam Dr. Strangelove.

14:48 Adam And all this, you know, there were people were really sort of chipping in in this sort of thing of it's like, no, this is something worthwhile.

14:54 Chris Yeah.

14:56 Adam Yeah, and it's yeah, it's just I mean, it's fucking amazing.

15:00 Adam So thank you, Chris.

15:01 Adam And it is one of those things where I would say, going into it knowing knowing what it is.

15:08 Adam But fuck me, it's so good and so fucking.

15:12 Chris It still hits hard.

15:13 Adam Yeah, it really does.

15:15 Adam And as I say, there's those you do still get those parallels like I said when it's when it's mostly just British people being sort of like, well, I got an extra ounce of backy.

15:26 Adam And, you know, the buses are running again.

15:30 Adam Yeah.

15:31 Adam So, you know, what's what's the problem, really?

15:33 Adam You know.

15:35 Adam And,

15:35 Chris What what did the Nazis ever do for us? Well,

15:38 Adam

15:40 Adam And,

15:42 Adam apart from that and this I think will probably feed quite into Lee's things.

15:48 Adam So I watched I watched Tokyo Gore Police a couple of nights ago.

15:51 Adam And then yesterday it was like again, what do you do?

15:56 Adam So I went for a film that features the special effects of the director and special effects guy of Tokyo Gore Police, RoboGeisha.

16:06 Lee Yes.

16:06 Adam Which.

16:07 Adam is.

16:10 Adam And here's the best bit is.

16:11 Adam It's a film I've been meaning for Claire to see because I thought she'd sort of quite enjoy it.

16:17 Adam because it's fucking mad.

16:20 Adam I mean, like Tokyo Gore Police the same.

16:23 Adam But,

16:25 Adam yeah, sort of I was like, oh, I don't know, should I watch it? Will I end up getting confused between the two but like within two seconds of the opening Claire was like,

16:33 Adam You're not going to get this confused, are you?

16:36 Adam Like,

16:36 Adam no, no, really not.

16:38 Adam It's.

16:40 Adam you know, so similar and so not similar.

16:43 Adam It's quite an impressive sort of thing.

16:45 Adam But yeah.

16:48 Adam And it does actually have a cameo from, the, the director of Tokyo Gore Police as well.

16:59 Adam he's one of the he's one of the Yakuza and bosses who gets killed off in like a montage.

17:05 Lee Oh, nice.

17:06 Lee I didn't realize that.

17:08 Adam Yeah.

17:10 Adam And,

17:12 Adam yeah, which is just the story the well, it's it's what it says on the tin.

17:17 Adam It's Robogager.

17:17 Chris Now, you took you took my slogan away from me.

17:20 Lee Yeah.

17:21 Chris I was going to use that for Tokyo Gore Police.

17:23 Lee Yeah.

17:24 Adam Now this is an interesting thing I've been thinking about, though.

17:29 Adam And I shouldn't be.

17:30 Adam But.

17:31 Adam There's like so RoboGeisha, Tokyo Gore Police, you know, there there's others that are a bit more obscure.

17:39 Adam But a lot of the time it always sounds a bit.

17:43 Adam Basically.

17:45 Adam Porn films used to be sort of puns or, you know, they'd be sort of like,

17:50 Adam tits in the trees, I don't know, you know, something a bit more romantic, maybe.

17:55 Adam But.

17:57 Adam But because of because pornography is now driven purely by computers and the internet, all porn titles are now like shopping lists because it works with algorithms.

18:11 Chris For searching.

18:12 Adam Yeah, yeah.

18:16 Adam So, you know, it's.

18:18 Lee So we've lost that.

18:19 Adam I I don't even want to speculate.

18:20 Adam But you you know what I mean, it would be like.

18:26 Adam teen urban gorilla.

18:31 Adam big tits.

18:32 Adam I don't know.

18:33 Adam You something like that that would then.

18:36 Lee What are you watching?

18:38 Adam Well, I was trying to I was trying to find something wasn't well, basically didn't sound didn't sound like I'd actually looked it up.

18:41 Adam But,

18:42 Lee Well, it's funny.

18:43 Adam But yeah and I I I get that sort of same thing with Japanese like translations of like the the English translations of Japanese titles.

18:52 Adam Have that same thing to me.

18:54 Adam Where it's like, I'm pretty sure I know what's going to happen.

18:57 Chris They become very literal.

18:58 Adam Yeah.

18:59 Adam And and I wonder if that would help in these days that people are sort of like,

19:03 Adam should films start going that more, you know, like.

19:08 Adam Evil Space Bastard, you know, something like that.

19:11 Adam That gives you.

19:13 Adam Actually, it's it's very much a low it's a low budget horror thing, definitely.

19:16 Adam Because it goes back it's kind of like exploitation films, I suppose.

19:18 Adam Yeah.

19:20 Adam It goes back to that, you know, where it's like the.

19:24 Adam sort of, you know.

19:27 Adam Just the night manglers or something that's quite sort of.

19:32 Adam And that's yeah.

19:33 Adam I'm going to stop now because I feel I'm going to blind alley of a tangent.

19:36 Lee Yeah.

19:37 Adam I've lost it.

19:38 Lee And and the thing is you've you've led perfectly into one of my films.

19:42 Lee So I wasn't sure where I was going to start with what I've been watching, but that's perfect.

19:46 Lee So, yeah, so I watched RoboGeisha as well.

19:50 Lee I also watched The Machine Girl.

19:53 Adam Oh, yes.

19:54 Lee Yeah.

19:56 Lee which again, exactly the same vein.

20:00 Lee and then also I watched one called Kyonyû Dragon is the Japanese title.

20:06 Chris How does that translate?

20:08 Lee but as Adam said, it was released in the UK as Big Tits Zombie.

20:14 Adam Yes.

20:16 Lee which it is a lie because there isn't a Big Tits Zombie in it, it's a group of strippers who find a secret door in the green room, that leads to an occultist's lair.

20:29 Lee And one of them, the goth one reads from a book and brings back zombies.

20:32 Lee and they have to fight them in order to stop them from getting out and attacking Japan.

20:40 Lee So yes.

20:42 Lee It's it's one of those.

20:43 Lee I heard about it because it was originally it was around this same period all these films were coming out.

20:50 Lee And it was based on a graphic novel.

20:52 Lee So I was like, oh, yeah, great.

20:54 Lee Yeah, and then when they announced what the title was going to be, I was like, oh man, that's going to be on my Amazon list for the rest of my life now.

21:01 Lee Do I really want to pre-order that?

21:03 Lee And I was like, fuck it, who's looking at my Amazon list?

21:06 Lee So yeah.

21:08 Adam Yeah, but that's.

21:09 Adam That's the point as well.

21:10 Adam Is yeah, but I think sometimes that the I mean, obviously the problem with algorithms is that it fundamentally means you have to repeat the same mistakes, so you you know, you have to.

21:22 Adam Right, so we have to keep refining this by fucking this up every single fucking time.

21:27 Adam You know, like like Groundhog Day.

21:29 Adam But with generations and fucking aons.

21:34 Adam but.

21:34 Adam I digress.

21:36 Adam This might be just a fundamental opposition that I have.

21:39 Adam

21:40 Lee So, yes, so I watched those.

21:44 Lee I then realized I was talking to someone recently about Guillermo del Toro.

21:51 Lee And realized that I I had a period in the in the sort of nineties when I didn't watch a lot of films, I was living in a bedsit and my girlfriend at the time much preferred playing PlayStation to watching stuff.

22:03 Lee So I I didn't really see anything for a while and because of that, I missed Blade 2.

22:09 Lee And as a result, I therefore never saw Blade 3 either.

22:13 Lee So this week I've gone back and rewatched all of the Blade movies.

22:18 Lee Well, I say rewatch.

22:18 Lee I rewatched Blade and then the two subsequent movies.

22:21 Lee they're so much more fun than I remember the first one being.

22:25 Lee It's so I don't think I'd realized just how sort of nod to literally.

22:30 Lee There's bits when he looks in the camera and delivers the most ridiculous role.

22:34 Lee Wesley Snipes is phenomenally good in these in those films.

22:38 Lee

22:39 Lee Yeah, and I really, really enjoyed them as a trilogy.

22:42 Lee They still look really good.

22:45 Lee Except for Blade Soul, which looks like he's bought in a pound shop, it's the most plastic shit looking thing I've seen in my life.

22:50 Lee And the thing is once you've realized how crap looking it is, it's always on his back, you can't not see it, it just looks gash.

22:57 Lee But other than that, it they still hold up and they're, you know, they're great fun.

23:02 Lee

23:03 Adam Was it worried sometimes when they've put that much money into it?

23:07 Adam And it's like, well, it it's on his back so we'll have to have it soft so if he falls over or whatever like that.

23:13 Adam But like the BBC can do a convincing frying pan that you can hit someone with.

23:17 Lee Yeah.

23:19 Adam You know, and it's like, what what are you spending your money on?

23:21 Adam Come on.

23:22 Lee Yeah.

23:23 Lee So, so we watched the third one just before we started recording tonight.

23:27 Lee As I say, the first time.

23:27 Lee So I knew Ryan Reynolds was in it, I didn't realize he was basically playing Deadpool in it.

23:32 Lee Which was.

23:34 Adam Oh, okay.

23:36 Lee yeah, he plays the exact same smart ass, never knows when to keep his mouth shut, always got a funny line no matter how much he's getting the shit kicked out of him.

23:43 Lee

23:45 Lee And then Natasha Lyonne's in it.

23:48 Lee Patton Oswalt's in it.

23:49 Lee It's just.

23:50 Adam All right.

23:50 Lee It's fantastic.

23:51 Lee So, yeah, I was totally blown away by that and yeah, it made for a great weekend.

23:56 Adam Is the third one Guillermo del Toro?

23:58 Lee I don't think so, no.

24:01 Lee It's only played two, isn't it?

24:01 Lee Yeah.

24:03 Lee

24:04 Lee But yeah, as I say, and and Wesley Snipes, I I sort of remember Wesley Snipes overacting in it, which he totally does.

24:12 Lee But it's it's.

24:13 Adam Yeah.

24:14 Lee But it's when he does the sort of look to camera and does that, you've got to be kidding, right?

24:20 Lee That it just like, oh he's totally in on it and it's and I missed that the first time round.

24:24 Lee I think, although I enjoyed the film, I think I missed that it didn't take itself too seriously.

24:27 Lee Yeah, I think I was.

24:28 Adam Yeah, I know you mean, yeah.

24:30 Lee To fully take that in.

24:32 Lee But yeah, fantastic.

24:32 Adam Well, if I remember rightly, that came out around Blade and that came out around about the same time as the first Underworld film.

24:40 Lee Yeah.

24:41 Adam Which did take itself far too fucking seriously.

24:44 Lee Yeah.

24:46 Lee Yeah, and I think that's why the Blade films are so much better.

24:49 Lee Because they know they're ridiculous and they just go.

24:52 Lee And it gets more ludicrous as it goes.

24:54 Lee You know, in the first one he has to have injections to stop him from going full vamp.

24:58 Lee And by the third one, he's just got this mouthpiece, like a gum shield, and he just puts it in and choose on it and then he's fine again.

25:05 Lee It's like it's just.

25:07 Lee ludicrous, but awesome.

25:08 Lee So.

25:09 Adam They're probably things that come from the comics, though.

25:12 Lee Yeah, quite possible.

25:13 Adam You know what I mean, it might have been that they as writers come in, they always up stuff or change it around.

25:20 Adam And it's like, oh, well, that's a fucking pain in the ass.

25:21 Adam Let's write this.

25:22 Adam Yeah.

25:23 Adam So I wonder if it's because they certainly I know that they do it very well with.

25:28 Adam like Marvel stuff.

25:30 Adam Of putting in the sort of comic beats in a way, you know, so you get that.

25:36 Adam They still have the proper backstory or the significant backstory.

25:40 Lee Yeah.

25:42 Lee But yeah.

25:44 Lee Oh, so much fun.

25:45 Lee so from that, I then went on to a load of Japanese stuff.

25:49 Lee Because I I've always been love Japanese culture and history.

25:51 Lee And I've been really into that since I was a kid.

25:55 Lee So I do every now and again just go for a wave of watching like Japanese films.

26:01 Lee So I dug all my all my stuff out and then I didn't watch any of it.

26:05 Lee And I watched loads of like Hollywood versions of Japanese films.

26:09 Lee So I watched 47 Ronin from.

26:14 Adam Oh, yeah.

26:14 Lee 2013, Keanu Reeves movie.

26:18 Lee with Hiroyuki Sanada as well, who's just one of the greatest actors ever.

26:22 Lee this film is a total guilty pleasure of mine, I know it really isn't a great film, but this is probably about the eighth time I've seen it.

26:31 Lee So.

26:32 Lee It's it's well worth it.

26:33 Lee It's a it's a stupid action movie.

26:36 Lee But yeah, set in feudal Japan.

26:38 Lee So.

26:40 Lee How wrong can you go with that?

26:42 Lee after that, I watched Black Rain from 1989.

26:47 Adam Ooh.

26:48 Lee With Michael Douglas.

26:50 Adam Yes.

26:50 Lee The Ridley Scott movie.

26:52 Adam Yeah.

26:53 Lee I wasn't going to watch it, but I saw, I've not listened to the latest not for everyone podcast, but I did see on there that they that somebody watched it.

27:01 Lee I think it was Adam recently watched it.

27:03 Adam I think it was, yeah.

27:04 Lee So it was in.

27:05 Lee Yeah, so it was in the description and it reminded me last night when I had nothing much on so I decided to give that another go.

27:11 Lee

27:12 Lee Yeah, and fantastic.

27:14 Lee Really enjoyed it.

27:15 Lee I mean, it's it's so 80s, it's kind of painful.

27:20 Lee But if you like 80s trash.

27:23 Adam Yeah.

27:24 Lee It.

27:24 Adam I.

27:25 Adam I always remember the trailer for it look, because it was it was on loads of fucking.

27:29 Adam films at one point like videos at one point like rent.

27:32 Adam And.

27:33 Adam But the trailer always it looked like because you've got you've got the set in and everything else like that.

27:41 Adam And slow mo guns and stuff like that.

27:42 Adam It really looked quite Blade Runner.

27:45 Lee It it's funny, that's what I always got from it.

27:47 Lee And it's all in the dark and there's lots of neon.

27:49 Lee So yeah, it's totally got that Blade Runner feel.

27:52 Adam Isn't John didn't John Carpenter write it or something?

27:55 Adam I'm sure there's something connection with John Carpenter with it.

27:57 Adam Or am I.

27:58 Adam I'm I might be, oh, shit.

27:59 Adam I might be thinking of that fucking film with Tommy Lee Jones and a supercar.

28:04 Lee Oh, I don't know what that is, but I want to see.

28:08 Chris That sounds like something Lee would want to watch.

28:10 Lee Yeah.

28:11 Adam Actually.

28:12 Adam I mean, yeah, it's I yeah, it's quite an early film, John Carpenter wrote it but he didn't direct it with Tommy Lee Jones and basically he's got a.

28:22 Adam a Night Rider, you know, like a sort of government supercar.

28:29 Adam And that that is literally what I can remember.

28:33 Lee

28:33 Adam Which I don't think he's a comment on the film, but I think it might be a comment on what state I watched the film in.

28:41 Lee I've written it down, so I'll find out what that is tomorrow.

28:45 Adam Black Moon Rising.

28:47 Lee Okay.

28:48 Lee I'll I'll look for that.

28:50 Lee then after that had finished, it was only midnight and I was still going.

28:55 Lee So I watched for the first time 13 Assassins, the Takeshi Miike film.

29:00 Adam Oh, yes.

29:02 Lee Wow, what a movie that is.

29:06 Adam Yeah, that is pretty fucking.

29:09 Adam His it's it's weird because he's done so much, because I mean I I would imagine by the time, certainly from the time we started this podcast, if I'd written down how many films he'd done, he'd already done two more by now.

29:19 Adam So I'd had to have like shave shave the estimate a bit.

29:22 Adam But.

29:23 Adam because he's done so much, but he does his like crime and Yakuza stuff, he's fucking terrific, you know.

29:32 Adam And it's weird because you assume because it's because it's him.

29:37 Adam You assume that it's going to be fucking mad because that's the other side of things that you get with him.

29:42 Adam And it isn't necessarily.

29:43 Adam But they do, he does melt it now and again really fucking well.

29:50 Lee Well, this did, like it started off really grim at the beginning because so for anyone who hasn't seen it, the story is that the Shogun's got a half brother.

29:59 Lee And he's getting on a bit and he's worried the emperor has said he's going to put his half brother in to replace the Shogun at some point soon.

30:03 Lee But the half brother is a fucking head case, who just murders, and mutilates and is just an absolute animal.

30:11 Lee so to stop him, the Shogun basically hires an assassin and says, look, can you put a team together and take him out because there's no way he can be running his country.

30:21 Lee and this group of assassins go after him.

30:23 Lee So the beginning of it is just all the stories of what this animal has done and it's really horrific.

30:29 Lee But then it's got some really comical moments in it as well once it gets going later on.

30:33 Lee Like.

30:34 Lee The guy they picked the 13th member who they picked up in the jungle, when they're crossing the mountain as he starts off as a guide.

30:42 Lee And then at the end he says, oh, no, I'm going to stick with you guys.

30:45 Lee One of the Samurai sneaks up behind him and clubs him with a great big trunk of a tree to knock him out and he just turns around and goes, what, what do you want?

30:52 Lee Like, like as if the guy had tapped him on the shoulder.

30:56 Lee Another one comes up and clubs him again and he turns around and goes, why are you all trying to get my attention?

31:00 Lee And then nobody's talking to him.

31:02 Lee He doesn't work out that they're trying to knock him unconscious.

31:05 Lee And then they're like, this guy's really tough, he's an idiot, but he's really tough.

31:08 Lee So they just take him into battle with two boulders wrapped up in ropes rather than swords and he just clubs the living shit out of everyone with them, it's just, oh, it's just, yeah, it's it's it's really.

31:19 Lee It is, it's that thing where tonally it's kind of up and down, but somehow it just makes it work.

31:23 Lee And it's epic.

31:25 Lee Fantastic.

31:28 Lee the next thing.

31:29 Lee I watched after that, Adam, if you have this is what I was saying to you before we started.

31:31 Lee Adam, if you haven't seen this, it is a crime, have you seen Samurai Champloo?

31:36 Adam Never even fucking heard of it.

31:38 Lee Right.

31:38 Lee So it's the same guy who did Cowboy Bebop.

31:42 Adam Oh, right.

31:43 Lee He's an.

31:44 Lee It's an anime series about two Samurai and a young girl trying to track down a basically she wants to find this samurai, but all she knows is he smells of sunflowers.

31:57 Lee She rescues two Samurai from being executed at the beginning.

31:59 Lee So they've got like a blood pact and have to stay with her until they find this samurai she's looking for.

32:04 Lee but it's all hip-hop and stuff in all the cutaways in between.

32:08 Lee And all the fight sequences have hip-hop music playing over them.

32:10 Lee It's so you.

32:11 Lee It's just fantastic.

32:12 Adam Cool.

32:13 Lee Oh.

32:14 Lee So I won't go into too much on that.

32:16 Lee And finally, just to wrap up very quickly, I also watched the whole of the Netflix series Age of Samurai.

32:20 Adam Oh, yes.

32:22 Lee Excuse me, I'd down a cherry Pepsi Max before we started.

32:24 Lee And it's trying to.

32:25 Lee so it's basically it covers a 30-year span at the end of or not at the end, but a 30-year span of feudal Japan, how they went from all of the areas being controlled by their own clans.

32:37 Lee Basically one clan started getting bigger and bigger and kind of took over.

32:43 Lee and the guy who started it gets superseded as they go along the way and all the rest of it.

32:47 Lee But.

32:48 Lee It's just incredible, so it's a it's a dramatization of historical events.

32:53 Lee So it cuts between talking heads of historians and, you know, them actually playing it out.

32:59 Adam Oh.

33:00 Lee Oh.

33:00 Lee It's just incredible, I watched it.

33:02 Lee I watched all six episodes, so that's about five hours long, I watched it in one go.

33:07 Lee And when it gets got to the end, I was so gutted.

33:10 Lee I was tempted to go back and start the whole thing again.

33:13 Lee It's so entertaining.

33:15 Lee pretty brutal and nasty in places, but I mean, it it's historically accurate as as much as I can tell.

33:20 Lee So it kind of would be.

33:21 Lee But yeah, it's a really,

33:22 Lee really good story.

33:24 Lee So if you get the opportunity, make your way through that.

33:27 Lee And that.

33:28 Lee finally is everything I watched in the last two weeks.

33:31 Chris That's been a busy two weeks.

33:33 Lee Or.

33:34 Lee not busy two weeks.

33:35 Lee I've literally been working,mming and watching stuff and that's literally it.

33:39 Lee Oh.

33:40 Lee Except for.

33:40 Lee I would like to say a massive thank you very quickly.

33:44 Lee

33:45 Lee Adam, guest on the show previously, when we did what did we do?

33:52 Lee It was a Netflix anime thing, Castlevania.

33:56 Chris Castlevania, yeah.

33:58 Lee on with Adam day before yesterday in London and he took me around the Natural History Museum because I'd never been.

34:05 Chris Oh, excellent.

34:06 Lee It was a bit of a fleeting visit, we only had like an hour and a half because we were going off to see Book of Mormon.

34:11 Lee So we stopped in on the way.

34:13 Adam Which is great.

34:14 Lee Oh, I literally had to wipe tears away from my face, I laughed so hard.

34:19 Lee That was fantastic.

34:20 Lee But yeah, so thanks very much again to Adam for that.

34:22 Lee We need to get a Welcome to Horror group together at some point and catch him on a day off again and get into take us down and and show us around.

34:28 Adam Yeah.

34:29 Lee definitely.

34:30 Lee It was fantastic.

34:33 Lee So anyone who's not been to the Natural History Museum, I like 40 years old, never been to the Natural History Museum.

34:37 Lee I was missing out.

34:38 Lee I definitely going back and doing like a full half day there at least.

34:41 Lee So.

34:42 Adam I I'll tell you what.

34:43 Adam It's the wonderful thing is with it is,

34:47 Adam I used to that was something where I used to just go on me up.

34:52 Chris Yeah.

34:53 Adam Yeah.

34:54 Adam You know, because you can just because in a weird way it's like.

34:57 Adam I don't want someone to have to put up with how long I'm going to stare.

35:00 Lee Yeah.

35:01 Lee Also, they do sleepovers at the National History Museum as well.

35:03 Lee Yes, he did mention that.

35:05 Lee And I did I do like the sound of that, I've got and he said they they do entertainment and like you get a full meal and everything.

35:08 Lee So, yeah, I I could totally see myself doing that, yeah.

35:13 Lee Thank you, Claire.

35:15 Lee But yeah, I think that's definitely one of the things on my hit list to do at some point once the world goes back to normal.

35:21 Adam Also a big thank you to.

35:23 Adam Erie Essex.

35:25 Adam Who they gave us a lovely shout out.

35:28 Adam So thank you for that, ladies.

35:30 Adam And,

35:32 Adam Yeah, go listen to that.

35:34 Adam And obviously go listen to not for everyone.

35:38 Lee Absolutely.

35:39 Lee Oh, to the ladies from Eerie Essex who asked when we're covering Rosemary's Baby.

35:44 Lee Just for you, we've added it to the end of our current watch list so in the next six weeks or so, it will be coming up.

35:51 Lee So we're going to cover it just for you.

35:54 Lee So there you go.

35:56 Lee Mark of support for Essex people podcasting.

36:00 Adam And and we have also some a late dispatch from Joe Watson.

36:04 Adam Who's watched the Netflix Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

36:07 Lee Oh, yeah.

36:08 Adam Yeah.

36:09 Adam and he gave I think he said he gave it seven out of 10.

36:11 Lee Oh, yeah.

36:12 Adam So that's not, yeah.

36:13 Adam Because it's what it's weird, I just keep hearing so many different things.

36:16 Adam Where people are, oh, it's so crap.

36:19 Adam And then other people that is, oh my God, it's amazing.

36:23 Adam And, yeah.

36:24 Adam I just don't believe him.

36:25 Lee I I need to check it out.

36:26 Lee As I said, if it wasn't for the fact I I wanted I had so many things I wanted to hit before we got to this episode.

36:31 Lee Although none of them will be in any way relevant and be discussed.

36:34 Lee I for my own, sanity, yeah, I just sometimes I just like to get into a little niche and just sit in it for a while.

36:39 Lee And that's where I've been for the last fortnight.

36:42 Lee So I didn't want anything that was going to.

36:44 Lee encroach on that, but yeah, that's definitely next, I think.

36:48 Lee So.

36:49 Adam Just a quick one, just before we start.

36:51 Lee Oh.

36:52 Adam Have you seen the the stuff for Studio 666?

36:56 Lee No.

36:58 Adam Foo Fighters have made a horror film.

37:00 Lee Oh, I heard talk of this.

37:03 Lee I wasn't sure if.

37:04 Adam Yeah, it's.

37:05 Adam It's been made.

37:06 Adam Now, I think it's actually been made.

37:11 Lee Oh yeah.

37:12 Lee I need to see that.

37:13 Adam Yeah, I was I thought to myself, yeah, no.

37:16 Lee I'm not a massive Foo Fighters fan, but their music videos, I don't know if they still are, but they used to be magnificent.

37:23 Lee So I.

37:24 Adam Not only that.

37:25 Adam Also, I'm not a big Foo Fighters fan, I'm a massive Dave Grohl fan.

37:28 Lee Yeah.

37:29 Chris That's that's that's me.

37:30 Chris Absolutely.

37:31 Lee Yeah.

37:32 Chris Yeah, definitely.

37:37 Lee Also, Glenn Danzig has got a new one out.

37:39 Lee A cowboy zombie, a cowboy vampire movie.

37:42 Adam Oh, right, I think all of his movies could be described as cowboy.

37:45 Lee It shows.

37:46 Lee on IMDb that it came out last year, but I cannot find it to watch or buy anywhere, so I don't know if it's been universally panned and has disappeared or if they're just having distribution issues.

37:53 Lee But.

37:54 Adam Maybe maybe it's just Danzig's finally discovered the emotion of shame.

38:00 Lee Too late, Glenn, too late.

38:05 Lee Yeah.

38:06 Lee I love the miss fits, but that last film was just, oh, painful.

38:15 Lee So.

38:16 Lee Yeah.

38:17 Adam I one thing I will say just as a closing statement with Tokyo Gore Police.

38:22 Adam And this is.

38:23 Adam a terrible thing.

38:23 Adam We haven't had a door in our lounge for about a year.

38:25 Adam due to it being removed and then several lockdowns and so on and so forth.

38:31 Adam But.

38:32 Adam Yeah, we finally have had a living room door for the first time in a year.

38:38 Adam So Tokyo Gore Police was the first film I've managed to watch for this podcast without well, as loud as I wanted to.

38:48 Lee Yeah.

38:50 Adam And what.

38:50 Adam But more importantly, the ridiculously thing is.

38:52 Adam I usually have to watch stuff with subtitles.

38:55 Lee Yeah.

38:56 Adam And even though I could have this as fucking loud as I wanted to.

38:58 Adam I still was reading subtitles.

39:02 Lee Yeah.

39:03 Adam But it's fucking worth it.

39:04 Lee I am looking forward to being able to go back and watch films now, yeah, without having to have subtitles on.

39:09 Lee Because I I've spent that last two weeks nothing but subtitles.

39:15 Lee

39:16 Lee So, yes, so to close out, definitely go and watch this.

39:19 Lee It's amazing and the subsequent films, so for our next episode, we are going to be covering a film that Adam and I saw at the cinema at the Gwarzone weekend, the reason I wanted to cover this was twofold, one, when Chris and I this year went to Horror on Sea, we saw a Danielle Harris movie, yes, yeah, so I wanted to watch this because it's one of my favorite Danielle Harris movies.

40:05 Lee I loved this film so much.

40:07 Lee I must have seen it loads, and there is.

40:09 Lee I don't know if I'm sure I'll tell the story again next week, but there was an actor in it and I'm sure when we left the cinema I said to Adam, I really hope I see him again.

40:17 Lee He was really good and then I just watched him in the latest James Bond film.

40:20 Lee So good to see him out and working.

40:24 Lee so we are going to be watching Blood Night, the Legend of Mary Hatchet.

40:29 Lee

40:30 Lee low budget film which I don't think I've seen since Gore Fest.

40:34 Adam So.

40:35 Adam I'm going to be really interested to see it.

40:37 Lee You're in for a treat.

40:37 Lee I believe it might be on Netflix, I I double check there's obviously I bought it as soon as it came out after we'd seen it.

40:44 Lee because I loved it so much and I've watched it half a dozen times.

40:49 Lee

40:51 Lee But yeah, I think I saw it recently.

40:53 Lee I checked and it was on Netflix.

40:54 Lee I I definitely found it somewhere to watch online on a subscription.

40:55 Lee thing that we've all got, so something like that.

40:59 Lee

41:01 Lee Yes.

41:01 Lee So go and track down a copy of that.

41:04 Lee Hopefully you won't regret it.

41:05 Lee It's back to super low budget independent movies, but done really well.

41:09 Lee So.

41:10 Adam Excellent.

41:11 Lee to look forward to it.

41:12 Adam Yeah.

41:12 Lee On Bill Mosley.

41:13 Lee Never go wrong with Bill Mosley.

41:16 Lee Right, so thanks ever so much for listening, everyone.

41:19 Lee go and check out Tokyo Gore Police.

41:21 Lee Go and watch Blood Night.

41:23 Lee Also listen to Eerie Essex.

41:25 Lee Also listen to not for everyone podcast, obviously.

41:28 Lee Brothers Across Seas.

41:30 Lee And we shall see you all in the fortnightly time for Blood Night.

41:33 Lee Goodnight.

41:35 Adam Goodnight.

41:36 Chris Goodnight.