Official Trailer for ‘One-Percent Warrior’ Yakuza Japanese Action Film
by Alex Billington
February 1, 2024
Source: YouTube
“Why is there no realism in action?” Well Go USA is releasing this movie on video in March coming up soon – take a look at the official trailer for Japanese action thriller One-Percent Warrior. This also goes under the title One-Percenter, though the US release title is slightly different. After his devastatingly fast, samurai-style combat approach sets filmmakers against him, a legendary action star makes his own movie—on turf claimed by feuding yakuza gangs, one including Japan’s deadliest martial arts assassin. International action sensation Tak Sakaguchi stars as a legendary, aging action film star who is drawn into the real world of violence when feuding yakuza gangs infiltrate the set of his directorial feature debut. Caught in the middle of a chaotic battle with an increasing body count, he must face whether his martial arts training is enough to save him. With action choreography by Kensuke Sonomura (Hydra, BabyAssassins), it stars Sho Aoyagi, Itsuji Itao, Kenjiro Ishimaru, and Keisuke Horibe, along with Jeet Kune Do master Ishii Togo. This has a cool concept, exploring real action within movie action, but I’m not sure the rest of it looks any good.
Here’s the official trailer (+ poster) for Yûdai Yamaguchi’s One-Percent Warrior, direct from YouTube:
Action film actor Takuma Toshiro is a man with one goal: the perfection of action film acting. But when his samurai-approach to the profession clashes with an industry addicted to wires, CGI and quick edits, Toshiro and his trusty apprentice Akira decide to make their dream film themselves. When actual violence finds its way onto their movie set in the form of yakuza mobsters looking for a hidden cache of drugs, Toshiro and Akira are suddenly thrust into action. Is this the ideal opportunity to take his “Real Action” to the next level? As lives are lost and chaos ensues, Toshiro finds that the gap between action “fantasy” and “reality” isn’t quite what he thought! One-Percent Warrior, also known as One Percenter or 1%Er, is both written and directed by Japanese genre filmmaker Yûdai Yamaguchi, director of many films including Meatball Machine, Tamami: The Baby’s Curse, Elite Yankee Saburo, Yakuza Weapon, Deadball, Men’s Egg Drummers, and Abductee previously. This initially opened in Japan last year. Well Go USA will debut One-Percent Warrior diect-to-VOD / DVD starting March 12th, 2024 coming soon. Anyone into this… or not?
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