You already know that I am a big anime fan. I found out about this flick after watching an anime joint called ‘The Professsional’. It was similar to that joint with the French dude in it only for the fact that the main characters were assassins. In the anime version, the assasssin dude was bad azz nails. He was capping people by shooting them through the eye. After he would body some dude he would shed a single tear. Prah’lee an allergic reaction to all the motherfuckers that he was merc’king.
I went to the video store that I bought all my Japanese anime and pr0n from and asked homey if there were any sequels made to ‘The Professional’. Japanese animation and pr0n are crazy alike in that way where you can have ‘Robot Armageddon Part 12’ and ‘Anal Teen Queens 12’. I don’t watch pr0n for the storylines though. Anyhoo, dude in the store put me up on the ‘Crying Freeman’ series. The main character from ‘The Professional’ is essentially the central figure in the live action ‘Crying Freeman’ series.
The Crying Freeman is a contract killer for the main Japanese crime syndicate. His bosses are the old guys that lead the smaller crime clans. When people get out of pocket or break the syndicates’ laws the Crying Freeman gets the call to clean shit up. He has a driver chick that helps him put in work and she is nice with hers as well. They peel wigs back in broad daylight and it’s nothing. In the first movie in the series the Crying Freeman is spotted during a hit by a photographer lady who becomes obsessed with him because he seems so ill and he had a tear running down his face.
They meet again when he is putting in work on another hit and she recognizes him and shouts dude out. Freeman grabs her up and takes her back to her pad. He tells her that he is a machine and she needs to throw out all of the photos that she has made of him. This silly bird thinks she can rehabilitate him, but then she gets kidnapped by a rival gang that wants to dead Freeman. It sounds melodramatic and like some smooth bullshit, but when you see all the people getting killed you realize how sick this flick is. Freeman finds out where they have the girl holed up and he comes through and kills everybody to save her. Good shit.
I’ve got six or seven of these ‘Crying Freeman’ joints and they are all hardbody ill like that. They must be on DVD somewhere by now. Definitely copp that joint if you want to see one of the sources where TARANTINO gets his ‘Kill Bill’ inspiration from.
DUDE, You are now, officially, my brother from another mother. I thought I was the only jig in B.K. who was rocking ‘The Professsional’ on VHS back in like ’93. Mos def a throwback dunny. Btw, how them snowflakes treating you at Sundance?
Yo Dallas, I finally got up on that Ninja Scroll this weekend.
SLICK movie. I just recently started being able to tolerate all that anime, so other than Akira, which I saw, what do I need to peep?
hollerate
Never knew Crying Freeman was also live action….I’ll stick to the anime with this nigga gettin buck naked killin folks…and that big big big fat woman….
Big Walt, u need to check out “Ghost In The Shell”. Also, the live action “Shogun Assassin”.
Big Walt is in the building.
Peep Appleseed. The storyline is futuristic and dope. Brave New World meets the O.G. Die Hard.
There’s a series called Patlabor which I dug the shit out of. I lent all my VHS copies on that series and not one made it back to me.
Skeeter, the live action jointsis just as graphic as the anime. Niggas get they eyes shot out for no money down in slow motion. No ducking bullets like the Matrix, just fools getting straight wasted. Good shit, trust me homey.
Jiyeah, forgot about Appleseed. Fiyah!
Wow, I’m surprised you haven’t been up on this…but it’s all good..the anime version was better to me just ‘cos with that you can get over the top widdit..blood bursting, splashing and whatnot
What you think about the Afro Samurai series?
japanese pr0n anyone? (maria ozawa…)
I used the argument about why the cartel didn’t let the children of rulers take over to explain why Dubbya shouldn’t be prez….I think it applies well.
Yeah, I’ve returned to the blog game on some King Arthur shit.
I’ll watch all that next time I have the means.
You ever seen a show called Gungrave? I ended up with that on my hard drive for whatever reason and I’m enjoying it.
I stopped messing with Anime like that a little while back, but one of my faves were KITE a schoolgirl assassin who put it on doods hardcore. Try and find that one. My anime game is mad weak now. . .
Funny aside, I just called my cousin trying to find my BATTLE ROYALE tape that my mans let me hold (Which is now being redialed – he said I could have it!) I gotta find that tape. Now BR got me open! (That’s where shorty in the schoolgirl outfit, Go-Go in KILL BILL came from)
i seen that kite…shit is raw…very good ending…kid with the basketball and all
Damn Dallas you late in the game, but check the old school one’s Akira,
Fist of The NorthStar, Ninja Scroll and Ghost In The Shell. If you like Robotech type shit check out Yamikaze, GundamSeed, Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex, and also checkout Golgo 13:The Professional.
^I love the crackheads that don’t read the post and only read the comments. Golgo 13 is what the live action ‘Crying Freeman’ is based on.
This dude just rattled off a thousand anime titles but all of them shits is not the truth. The Gundam series fucking annoys me. The writing for that shit is not for someone just fucking with anime for the first time.
All my anime and shit is on VHS format from when I bought that shit in 1996. What were you watching in 1996?
tim the toolman taylor
That was a typo I know Golgo 13 is THe Professional. I was thinking of Vampire Hunter D in staed . In 96 I was watch Akira and Fist of The North Star I bought in 95, also Legend of The overfiend, John Woos The Killer and Harboiled that I fisrt saw at The Regal Theater in Cincinnati in 93. Dont get emotional about the anime its just anime.