WASABI SAM and THE KAPPA MAKI KID

A Karate movie. That’s what we’ve been paired with.

A Japanese Karate movie.

‘KURO-OBI’ (Translation: BLACK BELT.)

Here’s the trailer:

Don’t have much to say really. From what I gather from the trailer, it’s about a group of Karate students whose master is killed and they set out to avenge his death.

Perhaps not the newest spin on the ol’ Karate genre’, but hey… the film did play at Cannes.

And it looks pretty good if you ask me. I mean, they were invited to Cannes, right? (Then again, so was ZOO. A movie about gay guys who have sex with horses.) But hey, who am I to argue ‘art’? Perhaps next year I’ll take the Palme d’Or with a film about lighting my own farts.

Rehab.

Anyway. So, it’s CENTIGRADE and BLACK BELT… together at last. And why the hell not? You know, it could have been worse. I mean, we could have been paired with one of those obscure French films where all anybody does is take a bath. Ever notice that? French movies are always the same. Two people sit in a bath. They stare out the window, then take a bath. Stare some more. Take another bath. Stare. Bath. Then they jump out the window and kill themselves.

So all I can say is that you simply got to go with the flow.

Can’t wait to meet my new Japanese filmmaking friends. We’ve got a smokin’ little film to help them kick off their Montreal experience.

(Granted, it may not be as ‘progressive’ as getting buggered by Seabiscuit, but what the hell.)

I wonder if the liquor store will trade a sixer of Kokanee for some sake?

C.