Africa Blood & Guts (aka Africa Addio) (DVD) Genre_Film Noir and riotous performances from members

and riotous performances from members of the real-life Japanese punk bands The Stalin

using his inimitable talents and deeply-felt understanding of kung fu history to create his own idiosyncratic and often humorous take on the genre

*FIRST PRESSING ONLY: Illustrated collector's booklet featuring new writing on the film by Aaron Gerow and Alex Zahlten

As the 'body-count' genre stabbed its way into audiences' hearts in the early '80s

The film would catapult Miike to the international scene and pave the way for such other genre delights as Ichii the Killer and The Happiness of the Katakuris

Africa Blood & Guts (aka Africa Addio) (DVD) Genre_Film Noir and riotous performances from membersWhat the camera sees it films pitilessly, without sympathy, without taking sides What the camera sees it films pitilessly, without sympathy, without taking sides, it begins. This film only says farewell to the old Africa and gives the world a picture of its agony. As colonialism collapsed in 1960s Africa, Gualtiero Jacopetti and Franco Prosperi rushed to the Dark Continent to record the horrifying battle for control that followed. Here was a world now