Well Go USA to Distro Sushi Typhoon Films
Well Go USA has signed an eight-year acquisition and distribution deal with Nikkatsu’s subsidiary for cult films, Sushi Typhoon. The distribution deal will see Well Go USA distribute American releases of films including Mutant Girls Squad, Helldriver, Yakuza Weapon, Deadball, and the Karate-Robo Zaborgar movie.
Source: The Wrap
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This is both good and bad for fans of Sushi Typhoon’s brand of exploitation film.
It’s good because we should see a price decrease compared to Funimation’s releases of Robogeisha and Frankenstein Girl vs Vampire Girl. It’s also good because Well Go’s release of Samurai Princess was pretty decent.
However, there are a few negatives here, too. Having just watched Well Go’s release of Negative Happy Chainsaw Edge last night, 90% of the subtitles had unnecessary quotation marks around each line, as if someone didn’t catch it in proofreading. It’s also a negative in that Well Go’s releases over the last year or so haven’t been filtered to Netflix for rental let alone instant streaming like Funimation’s were, meaning these films will get less exposure unless Well Go changes things.
I think I speak for all fans of these films, though, in saying thank god Tokyo Shock/Media Blasters didn’t get any of these films. They overcharge for the bare minimum of content and no dubs/extras only to release special editions a year later with the stuff that should have been on there to begin with.
Well Go’s release of Samurai Princess may have been “pretty decent.” Just a shame that the film itself was so terrible.
I don’t know. It has its own charm as kind of a mix between the usual Splatter-grindhouse Sushi Typhoon stuff and almost a live action early 90s anime OVA with the costuming.
For someone who likes these kinds of movies, it was a good time waster in between the release of Tokyo Gore Police and Frankenstein Girl vs. Vampire Girl.
Oh, and I almost forgot: Well Go’s release of the similarly splatter-filled movie Hard Revenge Millie was even better. Even if it did take a long time to hit Netflix and Netflix Instant, the DVD itself had an extensive behind the scenes and was well translated and professional looking.