Oxford Bad Film Club presents: Samurai Cop18

Directed by Amir Shervan | USA | 1991 | 1h 36m | Starring Mathew Karedas, Mark Frazer, Cranston Komuro, Robert Z'Dar, Gerald Okamura

Grab your wigs, speedos, and katanas (it means ‘Japanese sword’) – Oxford Bad Film Club is back with its sophomore showing: 1991’s Samurai Cop.

Ex-Sylverster Stallone bodyguard, current Sylvester Stallone knock-off, and self-described “big guy with long hair and muscles” Matt Hannon plays the titular Samurai Cop, tasked with busting the local Japanese drug gang. Directed and written by Iranian Amir Shervan, he set out to make the quintessential American cop movie (AKA Lethal Weapon), and ended up retiring. Coincidence? You decide.

Improvised dialogue: zero
Time allotted for choreographing fight sequences: fifteen minutes
Lighting budget: non-existent
Wardrobe: the actors’ personal clothes
ADR: plentiful
Wig budget: infinite

So join us you son of a bitches, for 90 minutes of glorious bad cinema.

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Monday 23 November

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Our beautiful art deco inspired auditorium can be found just off East Oxford's Cowley Road.We are open 7 days a week. We open the cinema and box office 30 minutes before the scheduled start time of each film, and the Box Office then closes 10 minutes after the film starts. We only show a few adverts – less than most cinemas – and we only play a couple of trailers, so please don’t be late as the film itself starts very close to the advertised time!

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