Editing Fist of the North Star (1995 live-action film)

{{Infobox Film
| name           = Fist of the North Star
| image          = [[Image:Fist_of_the_North_Star_poster.jpg|285px]]
| caption        = Movie promo poster
| director       = [[wikipedia:Tony Randel|Tony Randel]]
| producer       = Mark Yellen, Akihiro Komine
| writer         = Peter Atkins, [[wikipedia:Tony Randel|Tony Randel]]
| narrator       = 
| starring       = [[wikipedia:Gary Daniels|Gary Daniels]]<br>[[wikipedia:Costas Mandylor|Costas Mandylor]]<br>[[wikipedia:Chris Penn|Chris Penn]]
| music          = Christopher L. Stone
| cinematography = Jacques Haitkin
| editing        = Sonny Baskin 
| distributor    =  
| studio = First Look Studios
| released       = April 22, 1995
| runtime        = 103 minutes 
| country        = {{USA}}
| language       = English
| budget         = 
| gross          =  
| preceded_by    = 
| followed_by    = 
}}
'''''Fist of the North Star''''', released in Japan as '''''Hokuto no Ken: Fist of the North Star''''', is an American-produced live-action movie version of ''[[Hokuto no Ken]]'' was released in 1995, directed by Tony Randel based on a script by Peter Atkins and Wynne McLaughlin. The movie, loosely based on the Shin storyline of the manga, stars Gary Daniels as [[Kenshiro]], Costas Mandylor as [[Shin]] and Japanese actress Isako Washio as [[Yuria]], with Malcolm McDowell as [[Ryuken]] and Chris Penn as "[[Jackal]]" (actually a renamed [[Jagi]]). It also featured a cameo by professional wrestler [[w:c:prowrestling:Big Van Vader|Big Van Vader]] as [[Heart|Goliath]]. The movie saw a direct-to-video release in Japan and America. The Japanese dub saw [[Akira Kamiya]], [[Mie Suzuki]], [[Tomiko Suzuki]], [[Toshio Furukawa]] reprise their roles from the [[Hokuto no Ken (TV anime)|anime]].

==Cast==
*[[Gary Daniels]] as [[Kenshiro]]
*[[Malcolm McDowell|Malcom McDowell]] as [[Ryuken]]
*[[Costas Mandylor]] as [[Shin]]
* [[wikipedia:Dante Basco|Dante Basco]] as [[Bat]]
* Nalona Herron as [[Lynn]]
* [[wikipedia:Chris Penn|Chris Penn]] as [[Jagi|Jackal]]
* [[wikipedia:Isako Washio|Isako Washio]] as [[Yuria|Julia]]
* [[wikipedia:Downtown Julie Brown|Downtown Julie Brown]] as Charlie
* [[wikipedia:Melvin Van Peebles|Melvin Van Peebles]] as Asher
* [[wikipedia:Clint Howard|Clint Howard]] as Stalin
* [[wikipedia:Paulo Tocha|Paulo Tocha]] as Stone
* [[wikipedia:Tracey Walter|Tracey Walter]] as Paul McCarthy
* [[w:c:prowrestling:Big Van Vader|Big Van Vader]] as [[Heart|Goliath]]
* Bill Nagel as Miner
* Andre Rosey Brown as Sandman
* Rowena Guinness as Jill McCarthy
* Michael Charles Friedman as Neuter
* [[w:c:babylon5:Nils Allen Stewart|Nils Allen Stewart]] as [[Zeed]]
* [[wikipedia:Tony Halme|Tony Halme]] as Kemp
* [[wikipedia:David "Shark" Fralick|David "Shark" Fralick]] as Man at Palace
* [[wikipedia:George Kee Cheung|George Kee Cheung]] as Neville
* [[wikipedia:Michael Franco|Michael Franco]] as AWOL Crossman A
* David Loo as AWOL Crossman B
* [[wikipedia:Susan French|Susan French]] as Old Woman
* [[wikipedia:Chris DeRose|Chris DeRose]] as Oswald
* [[wikipedia:Darryl Chan|Darryl Chan]] as Novack
* [[wikipedia:Marisa Coughlan|Marisa Coughlan]] as Jenny
* Kate Geer as Mother
* [[wikipedia:Kevin Arbouet|Kevin Arbouet]] as [[Raoh|Rao]]

==Reception==
The film was not reviewed by many mainstream critics, and it got poor reviews from fans and online critics. Dave Foster of ''DVD Times'' panned the movie as a poor adaptation and commented that Kenshiro's pressure point techniques "''look rather tame''" in comparison to the way depicted in the manga and anime series.<ref name=DVDTimes>{{cite web|url=http://dvdtimes.co.uk/content.php?contentid=12395|title=DVD Times - Fist of the North Star|accessdate=2007-07-30| author = Dave Foster}}
</ref> A reviewer from eFilmCritic remarked that Kenshiro's defeat at the hands of Shin "''comes off as standard''" and "''unbelievably goofy''" compared to the 1986 animated movie version.<ref>http://www.efilmcritic.com/review.php?movie=2071&reviewer=156</ref>

==External Links==
*{{imdb title|0113074|Fist of the North Star}}
*{{ann|movie|3121|Fist of the North Star}}
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fqxb0cz6Gwg Oliver Harper's Retrospective/Review]
*[[wikipedia:Fist of the North Star (1995 film)|Fist of the North Star]]
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