When Martial Arts swept movie theaters in the early ’70s, the first wave of films came from Hong Kong studios. But in 1974, Japan finally arrived with no holds barred karate of Sonny Chiba (born Sadaho Maeda with the Japanese stage name Chiba Shinichi) in The Street Fighter. He proved extremely popular with three other … Read more
One of the most hilarious, and also strangely depressing, aspects of the “current year” culture wars has been the corporate world’s readiness to cravenly bend the knee to whatever the latest modern insanity is. Otherwise sensible, cognisant human beings who manage to do everything from walking and breathing at the
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