Mio nome è Shanghai Joe, Il

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Il Mio nome è Shanghai Joe (1972 / Director: Mario Caiano)

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Also known as

Mezzogiorno di fuoco per Han-Hao (Spain) | My Name Is Shanghai Joe | Shanghai Joe | The Dragon Strikes Back | The Fighting Fists of Shanghai Joe | To Kill or to Die | The Dragon Strikes Back | Knochenbrecher im wilden Westen (Germany) | Der Mann mit der Kugelpeitsche (Germany) | Shaghai Joe - Texas jernnaevne (Danish) | On mappelle Shangai Joe (France) | Shangai Joe (France) | Shangay'dan Gelen Adam (Turkey) | Benim Adim Shanghai Joe (Turkey) | Karate Jack - Ich bin euer Henker (Germany)

Cast and crew

  • Cast: Klaus Kinski(Saclper Jack), Chen Lee (Chin Hau/Shanghai Joe), Claudio Undari as Robert Hundar)(Pedro 'the Cannibal'), Katsutoshi Mikuriya (Mikuja), Gordon Mitchell ('Buryin' Sam'), Carla Romanelli (Christina), Carla Mancini(Conchita), Giacomo Rossi-Stuart(Tricky), George Wang(Master Yang), Federico Boido (as Rick Boyd)(Slim), Francisco Sanz, Piero Lulli (Samuel Spencer), Andrea Aureli (Sheriff Corrotto), Lanfranco Ceccarelli, Dante Cleri (Manuel Omero), Roberto Dell'Acqua (Smitty), Umberto D'Orsi (poker player), Lorenzo Fineschi (ranch hand), Tito García, Luigi Antonio Guerra (Spencer guest), Dante Maggio (doctor), Enrico Marciani (Spencer guest), Osiride Pevarello ('False Teeth'), Claudio Ruffini (poker player), Giovanni Sabbatini (one-eyed old man), Angelo Susani, Sergio Testori, Pietro Torrisi (ranch hand), Vaerano Ginesi (blacksmith), Eduardo Fajardo (slave trader), Aldo Cecconi (Wells Fargo client), Lars Bloch (Wells Fargo client) Buxx Banner, Giorgio Bixio, Angelo Susani
  • Screenplay: Fabrizio Trifone Trecca (as T.F. Karter), Mario Caiano
  • Cinematography: Guglielmo Mancori (Technicolor, Techniscope)
  • Music: Bruno Nicolai
  • Producer: Renato Amgiolini, Roberto Bessi

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Review

Director Mario Caiano, best known for the gorgeous horror film Amanti d'Oltretomba, made eleven Westerns in his career, but none as strange as this one. Perhaps it might help some to recall that the TV-series Kung Fu was enjoying great popularity at around the same time employing a similar East-meets-West theme. This film is much more grim and bloody, however, as it tells the tale of a Chinese man (Chen Lee) who travels to San Francisco in 1882. Looking for a better life, all he finds is scum -- racists, perverts, slavers, greedy conmen and mercenaries. Naturally, the gentle mystic must fight to find inner peace. Lee's major weapon -- aside from knives and lethal yo-yos -- is a devastating punch that rams all the way through his opponents' bodies. But that isn't the half of it. A cardshark gets his eyes gouged out in revolting detail, people are beaten to bloody pulp, and the villain of the piece (Klaus Kinski in a fascinating performance) is Scalper Jack, a mincing, sadistic bounty-hunter who tortures and skins his victims alive. A depressing and violent film, this exercise in bloodletting is powerful stuff and well-acted by a veteran cast including Giacomo Rossi Stuart, Claudio Undari and Gordon Mitchell, who also appeared in Caiano's Erik IL Vichingo. Adalberto Albertini made an unfortunate comic sequel the following year with Kinski (in a different role) and Lee.

Opinions

One of the best kung fu-spaghettis there is. Lots of action, lots of blood and violence and a bunch of weird villains. Story is quite simple: it's basically about Shanghai Joe facing a bunch of hired killers one after another but it works very well. Klaus Kinski makes a brilliant special appearance as crazed bounty hunter. Music by Bruno Nicolai is excellent. Rating: 4/5 --Bill san Antonio 19:22, 18 August 2006 (CEST)

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