Samurai Cop 2: Deadly Vengeance (2015)

Samurai Cop 2: Deadly Vengeance is a movie starring Mathew Karedas, Mark Frazer, and Cranston Komuro. It's 25 years later, and Detective Frank Washington is forced to team up with his long estranged partner Joe Marshall to solve a series of assassinations.

Director:

Gregory Hatanaka

Writers:

Rich Mallery (screenplay by), Tony T.L. Young (screenplay by)

Stars:

Mathew Karedas, Mark Frazer, Cranston Komuro

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Mathew Karedas	...	Joe
Mark Frazer	...	Frank
Cranston Komuro	...	Fooj
Shane Ryan	...	Leonard
Tommy Wiseau	...	Linton
Laurene Landon	...	Athena
Melissa Moore	...	Peggy
Joe Estevez	...	Robert
Jesse Hlubik	...	Lior
Mel Novak	...	Stanton
Lexi Belle	...	Hera
Kristine DeBell	...	Roberta
Lisa London	...	Takashi
Matthew Mahaney	...	Zemko
Gerald Okamura	...	Raizo

Storyline

It's 25 years later, and Detective Frank Washington is forced to team up with his long estranged partner Joe Marshall to solve a series of assassinations.

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Plot Keywords:

cop | samurai | violence | katana sword | katana | 

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Taglines:

They thought he was dead. He was just coolin' off.

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Genres:

Action | Crime | Thriller

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Certificate:

TV-14

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

9 October 2015 (USA)

Also Known As:

Samurai Cop: Deadly Vengeance

Box Office

Budget:

$1,500,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

CineRidge Entertainment, Cinema Epoch

Technical Specs

Runtime:

94 min

Sound Mix:

Mono Stereo

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

This is not a new film, but a re-cut version of Samurai Cop 2: Deadly Vengeance (2015) with the more explicit sex and nudity edited out.

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Goofs

Master Kitano, played by Beth Johnson, is referred to as a man multiple times.

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Quotes

Joe Marshall: I'll have a kombucha
Tyler Campbell: That drink is expensive
Joe Marshall: Ok, i'll have a camomile iced tea

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Connections

Referenced in Best of the Worst: Hollywood Cop (2017)

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Soundtracks

Manimal
Written and Performed by Too Bad

User Reviews

Possibly the worst movie sequel of a 'so bad its good' cult movie

Like many of you reading this review, I am one of those special individuals who enjoys watching bad movies because of the non intentional hilarity factor involved. A movie which has a cast and director who actually try to make a good movie but are not aware nor can cope with their lack of expertise, budget or comprehension of a proper film can have gut wrenching laughs.

Now enter the Samurai Cop 2. Building up from its cult following and the internet movement of glorifying old bad movies, it invested some money into creating a sequel to satisfy rabid fans. Now the problem is that the movie is too self aware about what's going on. The first film had an amateur director with big dreams leading a cast of actors who where desperately trying to build their acting portfolios and then suddenly everything crashed and burned. The second seems like it was trying too hard to re-create the tragic magic it had from the first film and instead of making a movie so bad its good, its just a terrible film. The cast and crew came into this movie knowing it was nothing special and it ends up being just that.

First off we can talk about the story. I have yet to figure out what the hell was going on. At first it seemed to make sense. Losing a loved one caused samurai cop to go into hiding. There's a clan war between two large gangs and they need him back to stop the impending chaos. After that you get random scenes of flash backs, poorly executed action scenes and reused meditation sequences of samurai cop on the beach. I know the story wasn't the main attraction but it created this vortex in which the more you tried to follow it the more you got lost in what was going on. It got to the point where you couldn't focus on the jokes because your brain was too warped from the messed up information it just received.

The actors that were in the film weren't great either, which is to be expected because they brought back many of them that were in the first film. The new characters consisted of porn stars and Tommy Wiseau to cater to those who enjoy gratuitous nudity and The Room. I am one of those people so that's where one of the stars from my rating is derived. I enjoyed Kayden Kross' performance and it's quite sad that her acting was better than most on set. Her black wig made her look like Jill Valentine...mmhhhmm...anyways back to the review.

The interior sets were poorly done consisting of reused basement rooms and decorated basement rooms to simulate places such as bars, clubs and building complexes. The colour scheme they used was really bright which almost rivaled tron for its neon use. They said they used the kickstarter money for special effects but it looks like basic animations and sfx that come free with a low end video editing software. They really screwed kickstarter backers if they spent 50k on elementary school cgi work.

The music was the other reason for the second star for this review. I enjoyed it and it set the mood quite well and hit the right notes to move you through the poorly acted scenes.

All in all I give this movie a 2 out of 10 starz rating. I would not recommend this film. They ruined perfectly good memories of the first bad film and didn't even try hard to make a good film which would end up being unintentionally bad. They should have used the budget and kickstarter money to make a porn parody as they could've used the same cast, been more entertaining and cost less money.