Isao Natsuyagi

Cult action icon Sonny Chiba’s directorial debut available on DVD for the first time

For the first time ever in the U.S., the 1990 Sonny Chiba-directed thriller Yellow Fang (Rimeinzu: Utsukushiki yuusha-tachi), has been released on DVD by Cinema Epoch. Based on a true story. In 1915, a mountain village in Japan was attacked by a giant bear, dubbed “Red Spot”, who terrorized the villagers for days, murdering the ….