Help with name confusion needed

Stephen Cremin asianfilmlibrary
Sat Feb 2 21:11:48 EST 2002


Not as bad as the US laserdisc of a Masumura film I saw recently which 
credits the director as Misumi Kenji.

Stephen


On Sunday, February 3, 2002, at 03:50  am, Miles Wood wrote:

>
>
> Stephen Cremin wrote:
>
>> I would suggest that they are all one and the same person, HASHIMOTO
>> Chikara.  Riki and Tsutomu are possible readings for the character but
>> I'd trust Chikara.  (It's same character as in Takeuchi Riki of DEAD OR
>> ALIVE, etc.)   Other films he had a bit part in include SPOOK WARFARE,
>> DETROY ALL PLANETS, WOMEN'S CELL and THE GHOSTLY TRAP as well as the
>> MAJIN series.  Not really my area so perhaps wait for someone else with
>> a better collection of SFX oriented books to clarify.
>
> THANKS STEPHEN! Your explanation clears things up. I'm guessing the use 
> of
> Riki is something that's simply been carried over from one review to 
> another,
> though it's a little surprising that whoever was doing the DVD's 
> subtitles
> got the actor's name wrong.
>
> Miles
>





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