Film
Bristol Bad Film Club: Kárate contre mafia
- Director
- Ramón Saldías
- Certificate
- 18
- Running Time
- 90 mins
In a Brexit-defying spirit of pan-European co-operation, the Bristol Bad Film Club teams up with Cinecutre, the organizers of CutreCon, for the UK premiere of this 1980 curio, which was recently re-discovered by French Bad Film aficionados Nanarland.
https://youtu.be/6SsdXI6l598
Billed as Spain’s first (and only) martial arts movie, Ramón Saldías‘s reprehensible action flick was shot in a few days in the Canary Islands. Nothing too weird about that, except that Saldías was obsessed with making Las Palmas look like Hong Kong. That would be quite a challenge with a huge budget, but with virtually no loot at his disposal, the director opted to shoot mostly in a Chinese restaurant, shuffle his three Asian extras into frame at every opportunity, and – oh dear – make up his cast in ‘yellowface’. The fights? They’re agreeably preposterous. For this screening, Cinecutre have put together English subtitles for the first time as the film has never been dubbed into anything other than Spanish. Go here for tickets. All profits go to VSO: Lamjung project in Nepal.
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