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The Beast and the Magic Sword [Paul Naschy].avi
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Description SPANISH LANGUAGE WITH ENGLISH SUBS.
Cast
Director.................: Paul Naschy
Writer...................: Paul Naschy
Paul Naschy..............: Count Waldemar Daninsky / Irineus Daninsky
Shigeru Amachi...........: Kian
Beatriz Escudero.........: Kinga
Junko Asahina............: Satomi
Violeta Cela.............: Esther
Yôko Fuji................: Akane (as Yoko Fuji)
Conrado San Martín.......: Salom Jehuda
Gérard Tichy.............: Otton el grande (as Gerard Tichy)
Yoshiro Kitamachi........: Yukio Goto
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Review
"La Bestia y la Espada Magica", also known as "The Beast and the Magic Sword" and "The Werewolf and the Magic Sword", is a 1983 Spanish/Japanese horror film that is the tenth in a long series about the werewolf Count Waldemar Daninsky, played by Paul Naschy.
Review from IMDb:
La Bestia y la Espada Mágica, 22 November 2009
5.6/10
Author: udar55 from Williamsburg, VA
His family cursed by a witch, Waldemar Daninsky (Paul Naschy) seeks the help of a Jewish doctor to cure him of his annoying habit of turning into a werewolf. The doctor is attacked by some local Christians in hoods and, before he dies, he tells Waldemar to head to Japan to seek out another doctor who can surely help him. So the Daninsky family head to the land of the rising sun to battle his curse
of the full moon.
This is a pretty fascinating take on the werewolf myths Naschy had been building for over a decade in his native Spain. Apparently the Waldemar flicks were big in Japan and a company offered to co-produce this movie if he set it in Japan. The end result is really unlike any werewolf movie. Where else can you see a werewolf and ninjas (besides your nightmares)? Naschy directs and always has his eye on
exploitation. For example, the werewolf bursts into a home and, when grabbing the women, always rips off their tops. There is also a crazy battle between the wolf man and a tiger (a real tiger is used) and a surreal sequence complete with snow falling where Japanese lead Shigeru Amachi fights off several otherworldly foes in order to gain the mythical sword that can kill the werewolf. The film is a tad
overlong (1 hour and 45 minutes) but definitely worth seeing for a werewolf tale off the beaten path.
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