Kamen Rider director Ryuta Tazaki hooks up with top action choreographer (K.G, Black Belt) Fuyuhiko Nishi. Supporting cast includes Kai Shishido, Julia Nagano, Yuki Sato, and Richard Heselton.
Salvage Mice (Japan, 2012)
Mitsuki Tanimura in a karate movie! Well, that sounded too good to work out. Tokusatsu veteran Ryuta Tasaki’s masked hero movie is a lazy effort, with sloppy technical execution leaving it several notches behind last year’s effective cheese karate burger K.G. The villain of the latter, Richard Heselton, dubbed in English here, is the film’s only convincing fighter. Newcomer Julia Nagano has potential, but the sound and visual department fail to insert enough iron into her little fists. Storyline and action choreography are second grade with no redeeming b-qualities, and the catchy Momoiro Clover song Contradiction, used in the film’s stylish trailer, is not found in the film.
The R2J DVD comes with some nice Nagano fight training footage (maybe 5 min, I forgot, returned the disc already). And some other extras that I didn't bother with. BD also available.
