This one above all others hurts me the most. As you know we here at Henshinhobby (you know, the guys that decided to take 5 month break) hold the Hokuto No Ken series very highly. In fact I can say with 100% confidence that if that series were to not exist then there would be no Henshinhobby (which would make some people happy but Ha ha!).

So we love it that much is obvious. Way back in the day when I had to buy these little things called VHS tapes I went into some probably out of business store and purchased the Live Action adaption to Fist of the North Star movie.

It was one of the most horrific things I've ever seen. Unlike the Devilman movie this one had actual filmmaking talent behind it. You have a group of guys who worked in several capacities in the Hellraiser series (at least the first two kicked ass) and of course the most successful of that Hellraiser bunch Christopher Young who composed tons of stuff including Spider-Man 3.

It could have been a decent flick but it wasn’t. In fact it’s fucking terrible and at times embarrassing. Oddly enough there is a cult following for this movie that tends to say that “it’s ok for an action flick”. Other than suggesting to them to watch more action flicks I’m at a loss but whatever, I come to bury this movie not the people who dig it.

I stick behind what I said earlier about Devilman being the worse (I’ve seen Kekko Kamen but that had the budget of a can of soup and it had tits so it gets a pass). But as I stated in the beginning this one hurt the most because I love this franchise the most. Believe me when I tell you I can write a disgustingly large amount about why this movie doesn’t work but I won’t because I don’t want to miss my train.

So take a gander below and absorb the trailer.