HarryLags

The director who started it all returns to close out the trilogy with a convoluted, and very violent tale of greed with a touch of revenge.

The theft of almost a half ton of gold from the shogunate's official mine threatens to bankrupt the government of Japan. Despite a desperate search the gold has not been found, causing officials of the Tokugawa bakufu to call on their most skillful secret agent, Shikoro Ichibei. This is the third and final chapter of the Shokin Kasegi (Bounty Hunter) series starring the peerless Wakayama Tomisaburo as a doctor who doubles as a bounty hunter with a vast array of weapons and the greatest sword skill in the land.

The discovery of a gold coin in the belly of one of his patients provides the first clue to finding the stolen bullion and saving the nation.

Our bounty hunter meets up with assorted characters, but none are loyal to anyone outside of their own interests. Virtually no one is trustworthy here.

Wakayama again plays Shikoro with a treasure chest full of charm and brutish intensity.

Tremendous action scenes highlight this ultra-violent epic as the Land of the Rising Sun is suddenly plunged into darkness!

Conclusion - His role as Shikoro Ichibei -- particularly in this movie - is likely among his best performances.

Rating - 7/10.

If you're looking for a game that allows you to control a rookie firefighter, then this is the game you should try. Along with some cool looking, full motion video locations and impressive video and sound, the game is actually fun to play. There are not many games where you play as a fireman, but this is probably one of the few that Sega has done. The developers of this game have really found something that works, and they mostly accomplish what they've set out to do - create an engaging and immersing interactive experience in a world you're not likely to see (unless you professionally fight fires). You do have to think your way out of tight jams, though. Those jams grow more intense on the Hard setting, where you have more decisions to make, and also interesting side issues like (finding a kerosene heater and saving a cat) Conclusion - . It would have been nicer if the game had a few more levels, but fans of full motion video games should give it a try.

After seeing his parents and grandmother killed by the Vietnamese, a 12 year old Khmer boy and his baby sister flee in an attempt to reach safety in Thailand.

An emotionally-draining film. But it's absorbing and realistic, hard to watch in places, especially the images of distressed children.

The violence can get pretty gruesome at times (as a warning, some shots of corpses may be real archival footage), but some pretty well filmed scenes of the young boy carrying his sister on his shoulder, while walking over a field of corpses and trying to escape all the violence and death all around is actually heartbreaking to watch..

If you've no idea what happened in Cambodia at that time, you'll finish the film with little further information than you started with.

But nevertheless, it's a gripping and emotional encounter of what happened in Cambodia at the time..

Conclusion - Brutal senseless war with a realism, The movie puts you right there, where the war is.

Score 7/10.