Shadow Skill |
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Japan • 1995 • 45m •
  • Directed by: Hiroshi Negishi. • Starring: Yuri Amano, Megumi Hayashibara, Chieko Honda, Rei Igarashi, Tomoko Ishimura, Jonathan Keeble, Takehito Koyasu, Takeshi Kusao, Stephen Lyons, Daniel Marinker, Yasunori Matsumoto, Roger May, Mitsuru Miyamoto..   In a war torn world of deadly conflict, one small group of heroes stand against the forces of darkness, armed only with two weapons - their unswerving dedication to good and the superhuman martial art known as the Shadow Skill...
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This is my story in relation to this OVA; As a little boy, the only anime I had seen was the Norwegian dub of "Panda no Daibouken (Panda's Adventures)", which was my childhood favorite film before "Toy Story (1996)" came. Where I live, bloody animations and such stuff simply didn't exist. I didn't know anything about this kind of animations until I accidentally discovered "Shadow Skill" (released by Polygram Video) year 1998. This one was rated 18 according to the Norwegian video box, and I was only 12-year old. My dad even had to pay some money to rent this, so my big sister and I got to see this anyway. No kidding here.
This 50-minute long film happened to be my first time in my life to see an animated film where characters beat the crap out of each other, blood splatters everywhere, and some complicated talking go on. Despite released on Norwegian VHS, the film was the English dub version by Manga Entertainment without any subs. The same with "Venus Wars", "Akira" and "Ninja Scroll" which we saw the next three years. Anyway, my big sister and I really liked this film, and happened to be noted on big sister's wish-list.
Review by chribren from the Internet Movie Database.
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