WASTELANDS - An Australian B-grade, Punk Rock, Street Trash online radio show hosted by long time partners in slime Adam (085c3n3) Obscene and Mark-O-Mark, pondering punk oddities, b grade movies, and trashy treasures.

Episode 93

Karate Warrior - Il ragazzo dal kimono d'oro

In this Episode Adam and Mark talk about a flick featuring a young American kid visiting his dad in the Phillipines who gets on the wrong side of the local gangster and get beaten up and left for dead. He is saved by an old monk who teaches him the ways of martial arts so he can go back and fight the gangster in a karate tournament. from 1987, Karate Warrior.

With Italian genre film-makers always mustard keen to capitalise on financially successful film trends, opportunistic producer/director Fabrizio De Angelis formulated his very own version of the Karate Kid. A movie that spawned 5 sequels. Does this one try to tie a story together.....Yes. Does it work? Not really and our so called hero spends most of his time as a human punching bag. The training scenes with Casio Keyboard background music are a highlight. A karate tournament is held in a boxing ring and it looked that the public were invited as extras. It's hard to side with our "hero" and you can't blame the gangster for blowing up after taking a kick to the nuts. OUCH!! The logic withering dubbed dialogue is flawed and confusing, but what is lost in translation is definitely gained in unintentional hilarity. For example the karate kid here is Anthony Scott, a 17 year-old American with a dubbed 30 year-old voice that sounds like it’s coming from an alien trying to translate from its native language in real time. If you don’t approach this movie too seriously and don’t expect Karate Kid quality you're going to laugh and enjoy this low blow, B-grade karate romp….maybe.

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