![]() Male consumers lapped up promises of big guns and (often) even bigger boobs advertised on video box covers, as low-budget B-movies were churned out en masse. It would transform the industry in the decade thereafter. In 1989, with the release of Toei’s Crime Hunter, a wild and revolutionary new arena of production and distribution was confirmed: so-called ‘V-Cinema’. ![]() The solution was obvious: instead of pouring megabucks into big-screen productions, the big studios would focus on cheap, eye-grabbing straight-to-video films to pose on rental store shelves. As home video devices became increasingly affordable, nationwide video rentals from some 16,000 stores would total 840 million in 1989. Box office sales were plummeting towards an all-time low of 122.9 million in 1996, with major studio Nikkatsu declaring bankruptcy by 1993. My friends in I had to break down and start laughing, it was one of the most inexplicatble sequences in film since the burlesque scene in Glenn or Glenda.As Japan’s economy boomed in the late 80s, its film industry faced a crisis. Then we get a close up of the actor's face looking surprised, a close up of some purple weird dragon head going 'ROAAR' and then the scene of the dude running back to the hatch. I believe you can even spot tire tracks on the ground and a rv in the back ground. the south western US! Now we get to see some dude in a suit walk around for like 5 minutes while they blow smoke infront of the camera to make you feel like your in an alien landscape. Then they override the computer and open a hatch to. ![]() They make a big deal about how hostile the surface is and how no one could survive on it, but damn it he has to go out and fight the alien. One particular point sits in my memory, the 'alien' has just escaped and the scientists need to go to the surface for some reason. If I am to remember correctly this movie is not half bad until the alien 'hatches' then it goes so far downhill it'll make you feel like your on a rollercoaster. ![]()
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