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Director:
Writer (WGA):
Boaz Yakin (written by)
Release Date:
5 October 1989 (West Germany)
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Tagline:
If society won't punish the guilty, he will. more
Plot:
When Frank Castle's family is murdered by criminals, he wages war on crime as a vigilante assassin known only as the Punisher. full summary | add synopsis
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A good adaptation
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Dolph Lundgren | ... | Frank Castle |
 | Louis Gossett Jr. | ... | Jake Berkowitz |
 | Jeroen Krabbé | ... | Gianni Franco (as Jeroen Krabbe) |
| Kim Miyori | ... | Lady Tanaka |
| Bryan Marshall | ... | Dino Moretti |
| Nancy Everhard | ... | Sam Leary |
| Barry Otto | ... | Shake |
| Brian Rooney | ... | Tommy Franco |
| Zoshka Mizak | ... | Tanaka's Daughter |
| Kenji Yamaki | ... | Sato |
| Hirofumi Kanayama | ... | Tomio |
| Larry McCormick | ... | TV Newsreader |
 | Todd Boyce | ... | Terrone |
| Lani John Tupu | ... | Laccone (as Larney Tupu) |
| John Negroponte | ... | Musso |
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Runtime:
89 min | Finland:76 min (heavily cut) (1990) (1995)
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Color:
Color (Eastmancolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
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Certification:
Iceland:16 |
Spain:18 |
Finland:K-16 (heavily cut) (1995) |
Finland:K-16 (heavily cut) (1990) |
Netherlands:16 |
Finland:K-18 (2006) (self applied) (film festival rating) |
Canada:16+ (Quebec) |
Canada:R (Manitoba/Ontario) |
USA:R (cut) (certificate #29751) |
Australia:R |
France:-12 |
New Zealand:R18 |
Norway:18 (video premiere) |
Sweden:(Banned) |
UK:18 (cut) |
West Germany:18 (cut) |
Germany:BPjM Restricted
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Dolph Lundgren co-wrote the Punisher's monologues at the beginning and end.
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Goofs:
Revealing mistakes: In a long shot of rack-torture scene, everyone is clearly standing on a place-marker.
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Quotes:
Lady Tanaka:
That was a very expensive question you asked at our place the other night. Several of our most trusted people were working there; it cost us nearly $2 million to get them out of prison - the ones you left alive, that is.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in Twisted Sisters (2006) (V)
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Soundtrack:
Vicious Minds
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I really liked this film, it´s true to the comic, and in some parts is better. For example in the comic Frank Castel has a truck full of weapons (most of them hi tech weapons) but were he gets the cash to pays for them. It´s a better adaptation than most flicks from those years (captain America for example) and it´s full with a lot of action and blood, its like a predecesor for Kill Bill. I give the movie a 7 out of 10.