Bloodfight (1989) - Yasuaki Kurata, Simon Yam, Meg Lam, Bolo Yeung, Cristina Lawson

[AlbertV]

Okay, I went to a local Dollar Tree the other day and I found a copy of BLOODFIGHT starring Yasuaki Kurata and Bolo Yeung. I figured it was $1.00 and one thing that always finds me curious about these is to see if anything has been cut.

Broadpoint Entertainment's DVD, which is an obvious transfer from the VHS, took out the curse words in the film. In particular, when gang leader John (Stuart Smith) tells the stall owner, "I wouldn't take this s**t from a dog", he says in this print "I wouldn't take this (inaudible) from a dog".

They did keep all of the violence intact though. It was like watching the film in the 80's on Drive-In Theater or WPIX's Fist of Fury Theater. LOL

Edited July 28, 2021 by AlbertV

[fiol]

i ve the old HK vcd.. i m still looking for the names of the girls who fight the punks..

[AlbertV]

i ve the old HK vcd.. i m still looking for the names of the girls who fight the punks..

All I know is according to the credits, her name is Sindy Lim. However, there isn't much information on her, if any at all.

[sifu iron perm]

this film used to depress me, but nice idea with the teacher avenging his student!

[ShaOW!linDude]

this film used to depress me, but nice idea with the teacher avenging his student!

I always thought that was a unique twist, too.

[sifu iron perm]

i admit i did tear at the end..the song made it even more touching!

[ShaOW!linDude]

You big softie!

[Jeru the Damaja]

Ah man, I remember watching this movie when I was a kid. It was pretty bad if I remember correctly. It was also an obvious blatant rip off of Bloodsport. Hell, I think Bolo Yeung even played the exact same character in both movies.

[Guest Markgway]

Always laugh at censored versions where you can snap some poor bugger's neck but can't say 'shit'.

[sifu iron perm]

Toby Russell directed the so called 2nd part right?

Blood Fight 2 aka The death cage, or did he just produce it?

[AlbertV]

Death Cage wasn't a sequel to Bloodfight. Some distributors just called it that to capitalize on Bloodfight. Here in the USA, Xenon labeled the film as "Mortal Combat 2: The Death Cage" because Robin Shou was in the film.

The original title of Bloodfight is actually Final Fight. I saw the original Japanese poster on Kurata-san's web site.

[Guest Markgway]

Blood Fight 2 is actually Death Cage and I think it was directed by Robert Tai.

[sifu iron perm]

Blood Fight 2 is actually Death Cage and I think it was directed by Robert Tai.

that's right..

Toby had a part in it!

Toby had/has a good relationship with robert.

[dionbrother]

I think DEATH CAGE is the work of Robert Tai.

[Jesse Smooth]

I think DEATH CAGE is the work of Robert Tai.

Yep, and Joe Lewis' best work as an actor.

[Cognoscente]

On 5/9/2011 at 6:29 PM, sifu iron perm said:

this film used to depress me, but nice idea with the teacher avenging his student!

I wonder if they were inspired by Sammo Hung's The Victim.

[AlbertV]

Simon Yam and Yasuaki Kurata

The late and legendary John Ladalski

Original Japanese poster

BTS Photo: Stuart Onslow-Smith, Cristina Lawson (who later played Phillip Rhee's sister in Best of the Best 3), and Simon Yam.

Sindy Lim, who had quite a fight scene in the film against Smith's goons. 

Edited July 28, 2021 by AlbertV

[DrNgor]

Is this a Japanese production or a Hong Kong one? The IMDB says the latter, the HKMDB says the former.

[TibetanWhiteCrane]

3 hours ago, DrNgor said:

Is this a Japanese production or a Hong Kong one? The IMDB says the latter, the HKMDB says the former.

Japanese..... with international markets in mind.

[DrNgor]

Does anyone know who the action director was? The English credits in the film didn't mention anyone.

[Cognoscente]

It might have been Bolo. He had several credits as a choreographer in the seventies.

[DrNgor]

21 hours ago, Cognoscente said:

It might have been Bolo. He had several credits as a choreographer in the seventies.

Could be. Yasuaki Kurata had enough experience by this point--he worked a bit with the Hung Ga Ban in the 80s--that he could have choreographed them, too. According to the IMDB, the first assistant director of the Hong Kong unit was Peter Chen, or Chan Lau. Chan Lau also had ample choreography experience, to maybe he contributed?

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[DrNgor]

I just finished writing my full review, so check it out here: https://abeautifulfilm.blogspot.com/2022/07/bloodfight-1989.html

[DragonClaws]

On 7/8/2022 at 6:48 PM, Cognoscente said:

It might have been Bolo. He had several credits as a choreographer in the seventies.

 

On 7/8/2022 at 5:10 PM, DrNgor said:

Does anyone know who the action director was? The English credits in the film didn't mention anyone

 

Bolo Yeung worked/contributed on the fight choreogrpahy on a few of his movie, but he didnt always get a credit. Im guessing this was a group effort with Bloodfight, rather than just one person?. Many Martial Arts movies, that still dont credit anyone for the action direction. As we all know, The HKMDB.Com has started alterting who they credit for this role, often now with multiple people credited under sightly different related roles.