Apparently, the more literal translation of the title - Sono otoko, kyōbō ni tsuki- is 'That man, being violent' or even 'Warning: This Man is Wild.'

Hey, hey - they've been de-kaffir-nated.

"You could have had everything."

The best thing is, I saw a making-of interview with Ken Takakura (RIP), and he speaks no English at all. Apparently he learned all his lines phonetically - and he was fucking fantastic, if I may say so!

Outrage is practically a comedy compared to Violent Cop. They share the same patient, almost lyrical pacing and bursts of brutal violence, but the black humor in Outrage is a lot more broad.

"When you're up to your ankles, you're gonna beg to tell me everything. When you're up to your knees, you'll kiss my ass to kill you!"

I would have liked to see how Dalton handled that final fight between Bond and Alec Trevelyan. His inclination for doing most of his own stunts was offset by the fact that he never really had a decent fight scene in either of his movies.

Brosnan was, if anything, an acceptable enough mix of Connery and Dalton - a decent level of charm, but capable of being edgy when needed. It was the scripts he was given that ultimately failed him.

Apparently Desmond Llewelyn improvised chucking that radio-broom in the bushes and walking off.

"Here, drink. But do not spill, he he - it kill de grass."

I love Bridget Fonda. I will always resent Danny Elfman for stealing her from us, "Simpsons" theme be damned.

"Compliments of Sharkey!"

I love Black Rain. You won't hear me attempting to argue that it's a classic, or even that great, but there's something to 80s action movies that is almost impossible to replicate - and an 80s action movie directed by Ridley Scott, at that!

Where else but in an action movie will you hear men utter such utterances as, "pain don't hurt," and "I used to fuck guys like you in prison?"

Violent Cop is an interesting choice. I'd call it a crime thriller rather than an action film - there are certainly action scenes in it, but they're less thrilling so much as grimly detached, mainly due to Kitano's almost subjective way of filming it. And despite a career of Yakuza films, it remains arguably his…

I know that Chow Yun-Fat makes this film, but I don't want to slight Danny Lee's performance as his cop twin. He brings the right amount of grim determination and dry humor to the role, which offsets the slightly sappy relationship between Chow and Sally Yeh. Plus his war cry of, "Ah JOOOONG!" in the final battle is…

License gets a bad rap for being edgy, but I think the real problem is that, with only two films, Timothy Dalton never really got the chance to dig into the role and make it his own. It's got people getting chopped up, exploded, and set on fire, but also silly shit like ninjas, shotguns blowing clean holes through…

Hard Target gets mad cred just for the shot of Jean-Claude Van Damme punching a rattlesnake in the face.

"Have you ever fired two guns whilst diving through the air?"

I didn't say "three seasons," I said "three shows." I realize that each has a different showrunner and they have their own ideas on how to go about that, but nevertheless I feel like the same structural issues exist in each - they're all three or four episodes per season too long, and it's inevitably the back half…