Shanghai Joe
May 11, 2023
The 1973 Italian cult classic Shanghai Joe will be released on Blu-ray Disc May 16 from Cauldron Films and MVD Entertainment Group.
In the hybrid of a spaghetti Western and a martial arts film, Chin Hao (Chen Lee/Myoshin Hayakawa), arrives in America looking for a better life, only to be faced with locals that don’t take kindly to outsiders. Much to their surprise, Chin is not your average drifter as he rips his way through racist bad guys with his unstoppable fighting techniques. After word of his skills spreads, he gets a job at a ranch only to find that the owner, Stanley Spencer, is a cattle smuggling slave trader who brutalizes Mexican farmers and anyone else who dares get in his way. Chin ramps up the violence as he stops at nothing to free the slaves and enact revenge on the sadistic Spencer.
Directed by Mario Caiano (Nightmare Castle), Shanghai Joe is for fans of bloody, action-packed Westerns and Kung Fu films of the 1970s. Loaded with practical gore effects and bone breaking fight choreography, Shanghai Joe also features genre legends Klaus Kinski (Jack the Ripper), Gordon Mitchell (Endgame), Robert Hundar (Sabata), Giacomo Rossi Stuart (The Crimes of the Black Cat), Carla Romanelli (Gang War in Milan), Piero Lulli (My Dear Killer) and Katsutoshi Mikuriya.
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Cauldron Films presents Shanghai Joe (aka Il mio nome è Shangai Joe, My Name is Shanghai Joe and The Fighting Fists of Shanghai Joe) on Blu-ray featuring a 2K restoration from the negative, both English dubbed and Italian with English subtitle audio options, and new extras.
Special features include “Samurai Spirit: Interview with Master Katsutoshi Mikuriya”; commentary with film historian Mike Hauss; the trailer; and “East Meets West: Italian Style,” a visual essay by film historian Eric Zaldivar.