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      American Samurai

      R 1992 1h 29m Adventure List
      Reviews 33% Audience Score 2,500+ Ratings A samurai's son (Mark Dacascos) fights his adopted brother (David Bradley) for possession of a sacred family sword. Read More Read Less

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      John J. Puccio Movie Metropolis Will a bad script ever overlook a good clich? Rated: 3/10 Dec 9, 2005 Full Review Read all reviews

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      William D This is one of the worst movies I have ever seen. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 12/07/23 Full Review Audience Member He sees with the eye of the mind. An American reporter who is a trained samurai and martial arts expert enters a fighting tournament to report/exposed an underground mafia. The tournament also includes his lifelong foe and adopted brother. His brother is the tournament's most likely winner. The tournament will obviously battle down through intense fights until an eventual brother showdown in the finale. "You have disgraced our family." Sam Firstenberg, director of Cyborg Cop 1 & 2, Criss Cross, The Alternate, American Ninja 1 & 2, Delta Force 3, and Blood Warriors, delivers American Samurai. The storyline for this is fairly putrid and delivered in a USA Channel Movie kind of way. It felt very clumsy and the cast delivered shaky performances. The cast includes Mark Dacoscos, John Fujioka, Koby Azarly, Valerie Trapp, and David Bradley. "One day I will come for my sword." I came across this film while flicking through cable channels on either the Cinemax or Showtime extreme channels (I can't remember). I decided to DVR the next showing and give it a viewing when I was in the mood for a grindhouse genre picture. This film was painful to get through and did remind me of American Ninja. It's a step down from Chuck Norris films from this era. "Why couldn't we have just been brothers?" Grade: F Rated 1 out of 5 stars 01/19/23 Full Review Audience Member This movie was obviously a pretty cheap effort and it shows in quite a few ways. The plot is ordinary and most of it is predictable. However, I really enjoyed this movie! For all the faults, it captured the essence of Zen Buddhism as it relates to the martial arts, and the atmosphere created by the fight scenes is spot on. The music really complements the movie. OK, it is corny, but is still really gets the message across. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/24/23 Full Review Audience Member the lack of chemistry between the main character and the female was nonexistent in the first third of the movie, then raging in the last 2/3s. as always, these movies have an interesting plethora of messages, this one had less. some minor plot holes but for a 1978 movie i thought it was pretty neat, not too much fluff and buff Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Audience Member This movie is terrible. So many errors. It looked bad. It was badly acted. It was very, very poorly edited. But the nostalgia made me love it. And it had a guy with a blade in his braid!! Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/23/23 Full Review Audience Member Sadly, same "American" problem as Last Samurai. Still, good fights all in itself though. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/08/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Synopsis A samurai's son (Mark Dacascos) fights his adopted brother (David Bradley) for possession of a sacred family sword.
      Director
      Sam Firstenberg
      Producer
      Karen Lee Arbeeny
      Screenwriter
      John Corcoran
      Production Co
      Cannon Films, Global Pictures
      Rating
      R
      Genre
      Adventure
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Jan 6, 2014
      Runtime
      1h 29m
      Sound Mix
      Surround