The Rewatch Party 252 - Samurai Cop (1991)

About this episode

The hosts celebrate a birthday by discussing the absurdities of the film Samurai Cop.

Nick celebrates a birthday the only reasonable way possible: by forcing everyone to watch Samurai Cop, where every line sounds recently invented and every explosion feels personally insulting to the physics underpinning our reality. Nick, Anthony, and an in person Elise marvel at director Amir Shervan somehow stretching a reported $7,000 budget into helicopters, katana fights, cocaine deals, and the most aggressively fake wig ever committed to film.  This movie was apparently filmed under conditions normally associated with a hostage negotiation. Actors wore their own clothes. Most scenes were done in a single take because film stock cost money. Entire chunks had to be reshot months later after the lead actor changed his hair, resulting in continuity so broken it becomes performance art. The discussion keeps circling back to baffling production decisions, including a helicopter pilot conducting phone-sex dialogue during a drug bust, stunt performers visibly changing ethnicity mid-fireball, and car chases where everyone politely uses turn signals.  There’s also an alarming amount of time spent trying to map Samurai Cop onto the Kevin Bacon cinematic universe while determining…

People in this episode

Host: Nick

Guest: Elise

Topics covered

• film review
• comedy
• bad movies
• production decisions
• cinematic universe

Keywords

• Samurai Cop
• Amir Shervan
• bad filmmaking
• film budget
• continuity errors

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Samurai Cop, Kevin Bacon cinematic universe

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