First of all, Shigeru Okada, the owner of Toei of Japan, after watching "Warrior Gang" in the United States, urgently gave instructions to the director of Toei Films, Teruo Ishii: "ああいう新しい形の若者映画を日本でも作ろう, 1980sを先取りした 撃撃的な青年影画を一発打ち出してみよう (In Japan, we also shoot that kind of new form of youth film, and shoot an impactful youth film before the arrival of the 1980s). Just force it. Ishii Teruo started filming a follower film "The Violent Warrior." As a result, the follower film failed miserably from art to business, and Ishii Teruo once put down the guide tube.
Later, "The Ruthless Soldier" was imitated even more miserably.
The influence of "Cracking Soldier" in Japan is even greater: the second part of the famous sci-fi animation "Infinite Zone 23" in the Japanese animation circle in the 1980s absorbed a lot of "Strong Soldiers" in the art design. Elements.
After the VHS video tape was born, a bunch of Japanese middle and second-year boys and girls who had watched "Warrior Gang", "Cracking Soldiers", and "Little Godfather" (the latter is Coppola's work) began to form gangs in Shibuya, Tokyo and other places. Fight. From 1992 to 1993, there was even a case of juvenile gangs occupying Shibuya Chuo Street after the store closed late at night. This has stimulated a lot of bad boy comics and novels. For example, Mita Inoue's "TOKYO TRIBE", Ishida Yoshida's "Ikebukuro Nishiguchi Park", and Umezawa Haruto's manga "Shengzi Arrives".
In recent years, the most affected example of Walter Hill's works is the Japanese manga "Hot Blood High School" and its adaptation of the film. It goes without saying that the Moto Party’s “armed front” in the comics is the first adaptation of the film. The first adaptation of the film is almost 50% of the "Renous Generals" + 30% of the original comics of the "Hot-blooded High School" + 20% "The Little Godfather"
In the video game industry, there are real testimonies as follows: The CAPCOM senior Tsujimoto Ken Misuke "FINAL FIGHT" development team ordered "more reference to some movies". As a result, the "FINAL FIGHT" team focused on the following movies: "Warrior Gang" (1979) ) "Heart Attack" (1984) and "Quick Whirlwind" (1975), all of which are works directed by Walter Hill.
People have always pointed out that Zhu Yanping's masterpiece "Seven Wolves" can be regarded as a follower of the film.
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