Post by thatgamingasshole on Aug 11, 2018 13:30:27 GMT
Hey, so this is an OLD one because the first time I knew about it was literally a decade ago, but there is genuine evidence of this existing, it's even mentioned a couple of times on Tv Tropes and people have seen it so here it goes...
Basically, I hear tell of a movie from the early 80s, I believe 1981, an obscure kung fu movie called Day of the Tiger, the known plot elements of which I will recount to you know as someone I know recounted to me, verbatim:
(note this is from various posts on TV Tropes, so it sounds a bit rambling)
"Yo, I'm open_sketch. I replied to 18-Till-I-Die's (note; that's me) PM but I'll repost the important bits here. I saw it around 2005 a few times at the house of a friend from high school, Will Chen, whose dad had a huge collection of wierd, Anime Hell level clips and obscure movies on VHS (coincidently, he also introduced me to the awesome 80s anime I love so much) Day of the Tiger was a copy of a copy VHS, while the sequel was fairly official-looking but Chinese(?) in origin. I managed to find the sequel on the internet in torrent form in 2007, but when I tried to redownload it a year later there were no seeders, and the torrent is now gone entirely.
The other information I know about this movie (that it was banned, the year it and the sequel was made) are details from Will's dad himself.
Basically, I hear tell of a movie from the early 80s, I believe 1981, an obscure kung fu movie called Day of the Tiger, the known plot elements of which I will recount to you know as someone I know recounted to me, verbatim:
(note this is from various posts on TV Tropes, so it sounds a bit rambling)
"Yo, I'm open_sketch. I replied to 18-Till-I-Die's (note; that's me) PM but I'll repost the important bits here. I saw it around 2005 a few times at the house of a friend from high school, Will Chen, whose dad had a huge collection of wierd, Anime Hell level clips and obscure movies on VHS (coincidently, he also introduced me to the awesome 80s anime I love so much) Day of the Tiger was a copy of a copy VHS, while the sequel was fairly official-looking but Chinese(?) in origin. I managed to find the sequel on the internet in torrent form in 2007, but when I tried to redownload it a year later there were no seeders, and the torrent is now gone entirely.
The other information I know about this movie (that it was banned, the year it and the sequel was made) are details from Will's dad himself.
If you go clip or gif hunting, here is some stuff to look for.
Terrible colour quality. Everything will be very yellow-saturated.
The protagonist's clothes get ripped up and stained almost immediately. If you see an asian guy with longish hair in black suit pants with knee rips and an open white dress shirt basically dyed red, maybe missing a sleeve, that's almost certainly him. He loses his tie within five minutes, and spends the last part of the movie without a shirt at all, but most of the gif worthy stuff is when he has some form of that on.
A ninja with no arms (clearly tucked inside his shirt) bleeding huge streams everywhere as he tries to kick off-camera. I have definately seen this gif around.
Ninja being swung against a pillar. Shot angle changes to show the protagonist holding the ninjas legs, with his top half completely gone. I've seen this on youtube.
Protagonist throws a Bruce Lee lookin' dude at another guy like a javelin. Shot cuts to show the impression of the guy's face sticking out of the target's back. There was a guy on the Penny Arade forums with this gif in his signature.
Scary looking huge guy firing bullets out of his mouth. Alternately, spitting out spent shells.
The protagonist's clothes get ripped up and stained almost immediately. If you see an asian guy with longish hair in black suit pants with knee rips and an open white dress shirt basically dyed red, maybe missing a sleeve, that's almost certainly him. He loses his tie within five minutes, and spends the last part of the movie without a shirt at all, but most of the gif worthy stuff is when he has some form of that on.
A ninja with no arms (clearly tucked inside his shirt) bleeding huge streams everywhere as he tries to kick off-camera. I have definately seen this gif around.
Ninja being swung against a pillar. Shot angle changes to show the protagonist holding the ninjas legs, with his top half completely gone. I've seen this on youtube.
Protagonist throws a Bruce Lee lookin' dude at another guy like a javelin. Shot cuts to show the impression of the guy's face sticking out of the target's back. There was a guy on the Penny Arade forums with this gif in his signature.
Scary looking huge guy firing bullets out of his mouth. Alternately, spitting out spent shells.
The first scene of this movie takes place in a 50s looking diner where the protagonist and his girlfriend are being served by a waiter in white (which obviously looks totally out of place) They talk for about five minutes before the windows burst in a hail of gunfire, the waiter explodes, and the protagonist, after briefly saying something to the girl, steps out through the window and blows up a guy's head by smacking him on his ears. Then the fighting begins. There are no opening credits whatsoever, at least in the version I've seen. If the very first shot you see is a crappy looking tin diner in an asian setting, you've probably found the movie.
I haven't seen Will in years, and I've only recent got onto Facebook so I haven't be able to find him. I'm trying to track him down though, but it isn't easy; he was only in my school two years and he left just before the Facebook craze really took off around here, so nobody I know has him either.
As for the sequel, I have no idea what it's called; it had no subtitles and the box was in a foreign language. Sorry I can't be more helpful. To be entirely honest, Day of the Tiger is just what I was told it was called, there are no opening credits on the first one and no subtitles on the second one; even the torrent's title wasn't in English. The words "Day of the Tiger" come up in the first movie though; it's apparently the mythical day that all the villains in the movie can/will work together or something like that, and it's used as justification for their rampage. At the very end, the hero claims that he is the mythical tiger or somesuch and the big bad gets a nice "oh crap!" moment right before his head gets twisted off like a bottle cap.
I'm almost certain it came out in 1981."
I've been told, some people see clips of it online and mistake them for scenes from The Story of Ricky, but it is not. Though, I am also told a sequel exists and is available from torrent sites, and frankly I'd love to see even THAT if it means finding out anything about Day of the Tiger. I'm posting this here, on Tip Of My Tongue, Lost Movies and any other reddits I can think of. I'm new to this but it's worked several times for me recently, and I've helped other folks find stuff just as obscure on TOMT so I hope someone---ANYONE---can help.
I'm obsessed with this, it's like my White Whale, and even if it turns out to be a white elephant I'd love to know. My OCD won't let me forget this till I find out, for certain, the truth. Gifs, images, a torrent, hell a SYNOPSIS or review would make my day!
Thank you, in advance, for any assistance at all.
I haven't seen Will in years, and I've only recent got onto Facebook so I haven't be able to find him. I'm trying to track him down though, but it isn't easy; he was only in my school two years and he left just before the Facebook craze really took off around here, so nobody I know has him either.
As for the sequel, I have no idea what it's called; it had no subtitles and the box was in a foreign language. Sorry I can't be more helpful. To be entirely honest, Day of the Tiger is just what I was told it was called, there are no opening credits on the first one and no subtitles on the second one; even the torrent's title wasn't in English. The words "Day of the Tiger" come up in the first movie though; it's apparently the mythical day that all the villains in the movie can/will work together or something like that, and it's used as justification for their rampage. At the very end, the hero claims that he is the mythical tiger or somesuch and the big bad gets a nice "oh crap!" moment right before his head gets twisted off like a bottle cap.
I'm almost certain it came out in 1981."
I've been told, some people see clips of it online and mistake them for scenes from The Story of Ricky, but it is not. Though, I am also told a sequel exists and is available from torrent sites, and frankly I'd love to see even THAT if it means finding out anything about Day of the Tiger. I'm posting this here, on Tip Of My Tongue, Lost Movies and any other reddits I can think of. I'm new to this but it's worked several times for me recently, and I've helped other folks find stuff just as obscure on TOMT so I hope someone---ANYONE---can help.
I'm obsessed with this, it's like my White Whale, and even if it turns out to be a white elephant I'd love to know. My OCD won't let me forget this till I find out, for certain, the truth. Gifs, images, a torrent, hell a SYNOPSIS or review would make my day!
Thank you, in advance, for any assistance at all.
