Fist of the North Star

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Development: N/A</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Sexuality: 3</B></div> <div> Some crude remarks and a meaningless nudity scene.  What were these people thinking?</div> <bR> <div> <B>Romance: 6</B></div> <div> The main focus of the movie... other than exploding heads.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Drama: 7</B></div> <div> Some great drama here.  If you like sadness and cool powers.  Of course, the cool powers come at a price: exploding heads and sliced-up human bodies.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Action: 10</B></div> <div> Detail of gore: amazingly high.  Quantity of blood: what's a proper word that explains something higher than gallons?</div> <bR> <div> <B>Comedy: 0</B></div> <div> And I mean exactly that: Zero, Nada, Zip, Cero, Rei, NOTHING!</div> <bR> <div> <B>Dub</B></div> <div> <B>Dub Voices: 5</B></div> <div> Can be pretty odd at times.  And Ken's yelling makes him sound like a girl.  A very strange, manly girl.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Dub Music: ???</B></div> <div> I heard Japanese singing, but also English, so I'm confused.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Dub Lines: Respectable</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Censorship:</B></div> <div> Whenever a large amount of gore is coming, you can tell because the screen is fuzzed up a bit and is slightly discolored.  </div> <bR> <div> I can never, ever, in the history of my life stand an amount of gore and violence to this vast an extent.  Whose bright idea was it to have a martial arts skill that made heads explode when hit on the belly?  Those crazy Japanese artists and authors... (not meant in a serious way; I'm just joking!) I dunno, maybe violence was really big in the '70's or something.  All I know is that this could be highly respectable if there were a modern, semi-violent version of this instead of the version with dated art and ultra-violence.  </div> <bR> <div> There is of course some seriousness, cool characters, and touching storyline in there, but when compared to exploding heads, what's going to be more memorable?</div> <bR> <div> <I><B>That's my Story and I'm Sticking to it!</B></I></div> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>