The VHS Archives: Masayoshi Nemoto's BUDO: THE ART OF KILLING (1978)

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BUDO: THE ART OF KILLING

Masayoshi Nemoto's Budo (1978)

The VHS Archives Factsheet

Label: Prism Entertainment Corp.

Catalog: 1752

Box Type: Clamshell

Year of Release: 1985

Runtime: 89:38

Print: 1.33:1 / English / No subs

Extras: None

About the Film

Director: Masayoshi Nemoto

Year of Release: 1978

Country of Origin: Japan

Stars: The Grand Masters of the Martial Arts

AKAs: The Art of Killing, Budo: Self-Defense Skills

Verbatim Box Synopsis

The techniques of budo -- kendo, karate, aikido, judo -- are explored in an astonishing look at the oriental "art of killing." Everything you see in Budo is real: the amazing action is performed by the master practitioners of these spiritual and physical skills.

In ancient Japan, the sword of the samurai knight ruled the land. The average citizen was not allowed to be armed, so the art of hand-to-hand fighting -- BUDO -- was invented to combat the sword.

This fascinating one-of-a-kind history penetrates the martial arts' deep roots in Eastern philosophy, the religious thought that animates the master's fearless self-confidence, and the eternal spirit of fighting protection. The myths and legends surrounding the warring arts are finally dispelled in a definitive picture of the truth about life and death in battle.

U.S. Prism Entertainment sleeve!

Dutch Video Media sleeve, originally scanned by "petcor80"!

Great montage, uploaded by "JJOhanzee"! The real trailer is tacked on the beginning of Prism's Legend of the Eight Samurai tape; someone should post it -- it's not even on the DVD!

Looking for Budo on VHS? It's available on Amazon here. A better choice is the great-looking DVD release from Synapse Films. 

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© 2012 -- Bruce Holecheck. All Rights Reserved.

The VHS Archives: Don Marshall's 3 WILD RIDERS (1971)

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3 WILD RIDERS

Don Marshall's Cycles South (1971)

The VHS Archives Factsheet
Label: Imperial Video Corp.
Catalog: IVC111
Box Type: Clamshell
Year of Release: 1983
Runtime: 87:55
Print: 1.33:1 / English / No subs

Extras: None

About the Film

Director: Don Marshall

Year of Release: 1971
Country of Origin: U.S.A.
Stars: Vaughn Everly, Don Marshall, Bobby Garcia

AKAs: Cycles South, The Great American Escape

Verbatim Box Synopsis

Three young Denver men, like most men their ages, spend most of their time drinking beer in a neighborhood tavern, watching TV and chasing girls.  One day the realization sneaks over them that they're in a rut.  To break the monotony in their lives, climb on their motorcycles, point them south, and head wherever fate may lead them.  Every type of situation is encountered by the trio as they steam south, all the way to Panama.  Roughriding across mountains and deserts, fording streams, jumping chasms, forging through thick jungles and riding tracks of a forgotten railroad, their odyssey is relieved by some fancy skiing outside Taos, skin-diving in Mexico after crossing the border at Juarez, and trying their hand at bullfighting.  Director Don Marshall inserts plenty of humor as he unfolds his epic against matchless exotic scenery!

 U.S. Imperial Video Corp. sleeve!

Australian Starbase Video sleeve, courtesy of Nucleus Films' Marc Morris!

 

Bonus clips, uploaded by "ATFFestival"!

Looking for 3 Wild Riders on VHS? It's available on Amazon here (assuming you're rich).

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© 2011 -- Bruce Holecheck. All Rights Reserved.

The VHS Archives: Andrzej Kostenko & Karl Martine's CONFESSIONS OF A BLUE MOVIE STAR (1978)

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CONFESSIONS OF A BLUE MOVIE STAR

Andrzej Kostenko & Karl Martine's Snuff (1978)

The VHS Archives Factsheet

Label: Imperial Video Corp.
Catalog: IVC107
Box Type: Clamshell
Year of Release: 1983
Runtime: 79:03
Print: 1.33:1 / English / No subs
Extras: None

About the Film
Director: Andrzej Kostenko & Karl Martine
Year of Release: 1978
Country of Origin: West Germany
Stars: Christina von Blanc, Claudia Fielers, Roswitha Geuther, Robert Furch, Roman Polanski
AKAs: The Evolution of Snuff

Verbatim Box Synopsis

"All sexual taboos on the screen were broken and people think what can be the next step."  With this statement Polanski introduces CONFESSIONS OF A BLUE STAR.  This film, directed by his pupil Andrzej Kostenko, is a highly visual documentation on the making of porno films.

Amongst others, the film portrays the fate of Claudia Fielers, a beautiful young student and well known porn star.  The fact that her naked body was seen by millions of people and every intimate action of hers projected to large screens the world over, caused her such anguish and despair that during the shooting of CONFESSIONS OF A BLUE MOVIE STAR she committed suicide.  We see her talk to us and minutes later she is dead.  The film also shows an hysterical actress, suddenly realizing how low she has fallen, attacking the director.

It is a shocking motion picture portrait of the people who make their living from these films both in front and behind the camera.  What influences lively young women to perform carnal acts for public exploitation?  What are these girls really like?  For the inside story on the making of porno movies, don't miss CONFESSIONS OF A BLUE MOVIE STAR.

 U.S. Imperial Video Corp. sleeve!

A clip from the infamous post-credits sequence (this movie's main claim to notoriety) which purports to show footage from an actual snuff film.  Turns out the gore in question was actually then-unseen outtakes from Wes Craven's Last House on the Left! (Uploaded by CultMovieForums.)

Looking for Confessions of a Blue Movie Star on VHS? It's available on Amazon here (though it's not the IVC release).

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© 2011 -- Bruce Holecheck. All Rights Reserved.

Project IVC: Karin Fischer's CHIMPO'S WILD ANIMAL SAFARI (1979)

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CHIMPO'S WILD ANIMAL SAFARI

Karin Fischer's Schimpo, was macht ein Aff' in Afrika (1979)

The VHS Archives Factsheet

Label: Imperial Video Corp.

Catalog: IVC104

Box Type: Clamshell
Year of Release: 1983
Runtime: 96:57
Print: 1.33:1 / English / No subs
Extras: None

About the Film
Director: Karin Fischer
Year of Release: 1979
Country of Origin: West Germany
Stars: Chimpo, Willy Kubler, Georg Thomalla
AKAs: ?

Verbatim Box Synopsis

This film is the greatest breakthrough in family entertainment since the Disney studios first brought a natural wild-life feature to the public in 1953.  Added to the beauty of African natural wild-life is the extra entertaining feature of having CHIMPO, ace reporter for The Primate Press, as the viewer's guide through African deserts and jungles, getting a marvelous view of the wild-life from Beetles to Elephants! You will actually see the birth of a baby seal, and battles to the death between Mongoose and Cobra, and Cheetah and Antelope.  You'll laugh hysterically at the antics of CHIMPO and his two chimpanzee cub assistants "The Chump Bros", as they wreak havoc throughout Africa.  See CHIMPO ride a camel, drive a jeep, take photographs, fly a plane, as he bravely defies death to bring us the complete story!  As entertainingly beautiful as it is educationally enlightening, truly, the whole family will "go ape" over CHIMPO!

U.S. sleeve!

Notes

A totally jaw-dropping children's film from Germany, I can only imagine the scarring this did to its intended audience's collective psyche.  Essentially, it's Lancelot Link by way of Black Emanuelle as a clothes-wearing chimpanzee gets shipped off to Africa in search of his scoop.  From that point on, it's Mondo City as we watch various animals screw, give birth and kill each other, all of which is narrated by our precariously-placed host, Chimpo, as voiced by some slang-spewing Brit who offers up plenty of off-color comments.  At least the back cover's plot summary does its best to sum up the tape's contents!  Truth in advertising can be a wonderful thing...

Looking for Chimpo's Wild Animal Safari on VHS? It's available on Amazon here.

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