Bullets, Blood & a Fistful of Ca$h (2006)

A hard boiled tale of bloody revenge that interweaves the stories of nine criminals. Hector Gonzales, a ruthless kingpin who has risen through the ranks over the last ten years and now ... See full summary »

Director:

Sam Akina

Writer:

Sam Akina

Stars:

Jerry Lloyd, Tom Doty, Roy Stanton

Cast

Credited cast:
Jerry Lloyd	...	Hector Gonzales
Tom Doty	...	Cash
Roy Stanton	...	Donny Edwards
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Josh Cameron	...	Thug
Richard Cranor	...	Bouncer
Rodrigo DeMedeiros	...	Pablo Valdez
Kevin Inouye	...	DeMaris
Kori K. Just	...	Lenny the Butcher
Ken Kasel	...	Sonny
Toan Le	...	Uncle Bill Nguyen
Dex Manley	...	Tommy Two Toes
Fred McKinney	...	Katanga
Thi Nguyen	...	Johnny Tran
Ghetto Prez	...	Detective Lionel "Pop" Jackson
Phil Randoy	...	Abe Shanks

Storyline

A hard boiled tale of bloody revenge that interweaves the stories of nine criminals. Hector Gonzales, a ruthless kingpin who has risen through the ranks over the last ten years and now stands on the verge of ruling the city; Bill Nguyen, a Vietnamese mafia boss; Abe Shanks, a black market organ dealer; Johnny Tran, a young Dai Ca within Nguyen's Viet mafia; Tommy Two Toes, a hot tempered Sicilian Capo; Lenny, a brutal mercenary working for the highest bidder; Pablo Valdez, a flamboyant Columbian drug lord; Donnie Edwards, a drug dealing Vice cop with aspirations to escape the undertow of the cities criminal milieu; and, at the center of this dark yarn, Cash, a gunslinging ex-convict on a death quest to find the man who raped and murdered his wife over a decade ago, Hector Gonzales. The story takes place in one day, on the eve of an all out syndicate war. Through a twisted series of events, the interweaving narratives are put on an ultra-violent collision course that will determine, ...

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Plot Keywords:

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Genres:

Action | Crime

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for strong bloody violence throughout, pervasive language, drug content and some sexuality/nudity

Details

Official Sites:

Official site

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

2 May 2006 (USA)

Also Known As:

Ca$h

Company Credits

Production Co:

Akina Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

115 min

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

Bullets, Blood & a Fistful of Ca$h has at least four different edited versions due to delivery requirements for different distributors. The Directors Cut, a 2hr and 6 minute standard definition version which has not been released, is the only version of the film that Writer/Director Sam Akina and Producer Vu Le approve of.

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Goofs

The blood on Cash's white t-shirt keeps changing amount, position, and wetness.

User Reviews

Not over-hyped, badly marketed kick a$$ film!!!!

Are you f%&&ing kidding me?? This movie kicks a$$!!! I saw BBFOC at a screening in Cannes - everybody there was blown away by this film! It's got a 4.2??? Wtf?! Maybe the cut I saw is not the same thing as the cut that got released or something but myself and many others there were SERIOUSLY impressed by this guy Sam Akina. And the guy who plays Cash is a freaking monster! People on this site are talking about hype - WTF?? Have you seen the poster?? There was a joke going around Cannes because BBFOC was advertised in magazines for almost a week, and the poster for it was so GOD AWFUL!! We had to go check it out because we'd been joking for days about it and thought it was going to be one of those movies like "Body Armor" that sucks so bad its funny. Not even close! What it was being "hyped" as and what it was were two totally different things. BBFOC is slick, smart, dark, super-violent and funny as hell! It knows exactly the kind of movie it is - whoever is making the posters and doing the press for it doesn't - and that's too bad. I really haven't had that much fun watching a movie in a LOOONG time. Hats off to these guys for making it, I'm really looking forward to seeing what Akina does in the future when he has some real money to work with.

PS - As far as the Tarantino comparison goes, I also saw Death Proof at Cannes. Sucked!!!! All you Tarantino fans who think he's some kind of incomparable god need to think again - the guy hasn't made a decent movie since Pulp Fiction, and thats a fact! He's been resting on his laurels ever since - if any body else had made Death Proof it would have been called a Tarantino rip-off, it was so bad. Nobody is calling BBFOC a Tarantino rip off - they are making straight comparisons to the filmmakers themselves. (and when Tarantino first started out, people made direct comparisons to Martin Scorsese and that was considered blasphemy as well - now Tarantino is his own institution) This guy Sam Akina is a massive talent - I know because I've seen it - and people who say he is the next Tarantino are totally justified to do so - for what he did with that budget and that story, he deserves a f#%@%$ing genius award!!!