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The Great Samurai Cop Swindle. Clip of the Day

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Samurai Cop  (1989)

Ever have a moment where you, Gentle Reader, have seen a video and chuckled to yourself, “Wow. What a lame film. Who’d ever watch that?” But slowly it dawns on you that the film seems a bit too familiar. That you’ve laughed at this before–but can’t remember how or when. Like the frightening day after an Aqua Velva hangover, you realize that you even paid money to view this film.

Today’s clip was the big thing yesterday and had been haunting me for nearly the entire day. After jogging my memory with a few more Aqua Velvas, I remembered the history of it: Samurai Cop.

Samurai Cop is a formless, generic 80s cop movie featuring a mullet and a confusing plot point involving Robert Z’Dar as a Japanese guy. The fun story behind this film’s title involves the fact that due to Z’Dar’s other timeless role –– in Maniac Cop –– the producers thought it best to market the entire film around him. And this was the result:

Sadly, that wasn’t Z’Dar.

But this does lead to the single worst moment in an “action film,” i.e. the Bacon Grease Scene:


Originally posted on:SpoutBlog

posted on Wednesday, January 07, 2009 8:01 PM by SpoutBlog


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