Fists flurry and blood flows as legendary cult director Teruo Ishii (Shoguns Joy of Torture, Horrors of Malformed Men) joins forces with martial arts legend ShinichiSonnyChiba in this bonecrunching double whammy of classic karate exploitation from Toei. Ryuichi Koga (Chiba) is a descendent of the Koga Ninja school, now earning his living through more nefarious means as a gun for hire. When he is enlisted to take down a drug cartel alongside Hayabusa (Makoto Sato), a disgraced former narcotics detective now operating within the criminal underworld, and renegade Aikido master Sakura (Eiji G), tensions grow among this threeman team of ne'erdowells as each come to question each others motives. Koga returns in the even more gungho follow up, Karate Inferno, as the ringmaster of a gang of thieves plotting to steal a priceless jewel from a master criminal. Making its High Definition homevideo debut, The Executioner is presented in both its original Japaneselanguage version and with