Vintage Super Lightweight Title Bout - Takahasi Fuji's second title defense

He and his family who own the company are Plymouth Brethren - basically far right-wing fundamentalist Baptists who isolate themselves socially from any non-Brethren but need infidels like me to help them run their businesses because they want to be rich but don't have enough people in their church to be self-sufficient. He, the oldest son, well.......not being personal but he's a failure as a human being on every level. And I don't like his face. Assface it is.

I'm more of a Kurosawa/Ozu man myself. Kobayashi, Shindo etc. Onibaba is the weirdest Jap film from the 60's that I've seen, odd but brilliant nasty s***. Watched Kwaidan recently, amazing stuff. I'm a film buff also though not as much as in years gone by.

 

Yeah Drunken Angel is very underrated, excellent film. The Asian exploitation genre is a bit more of a blind spot for me than other nations/eras/genres of cinema tbh pal. Glad I'm not the only one who loves Kwaidan, visual poetry.

The missus bought me a Kurosawa set for Xmas last year and I goaded her into watching Ran, Throne of Blood etc because she's a Shakespeare fangirl. Even Hidden Fortress since we both like Star Wars. She's intelligent and cultured but possesses appalling taste where some aspects of film and music are concerned, so I was pleased she liked them.

 

Hissss...lol, you got that right driver!! Takeshi Paul Fuji,...originally from Hawaii....been waiting all night to get to this thread...
Fuji was a lower case Pipino Cuevas...one of the purest slugger/power punchers in boxing history. He fascinated me waaay back then...and I sought out word of his exploits in Ring and Boxing Illustrated. I think I remember a reporter for Ring stating that the ko of Quator was one of the cleanest knockouts that he had seen...that Fuji nearly "knocked his block off".....so naturally, the big event for me was the Fuji-Locche contest...it was the first time I had heard of Locche.
Fuji did indeed fight like a kamekaze wildman...putting everything into those big bombs that he threw....and El Untoccable got a real good look at every punch that Fuji threw...hell, he could have smoked one of his ever present cigarettes "whilst" casually dodging the incoming artillery....one of my favorite boxing performances ever

 

Never seen this before, much appreciated buddy.

 

I think Fuji was an awesome puncher, a terror...and I think Pipino Cuevas is a good comparison...so is Edwin Valero to an extent. To those who might take issue with his crudeness, and apparent lack of technique, you may have a point, but I'll present to you Exhibit A...his title winning bout with the very capable Italian world champion, Sandro Lopopopopoplo....
Notice the rather smug, assured champion Lopopopopolo...who was that way until he got hit...and he got hit.

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My God(!!!) If just one of those last punches had really landed flush...he would have decapitated poor Lopopopopopolo.

 

Ahhh, too many domestic chores, like having the condo laundromat being defunct for the time...and having to go elsewhere to do the chore...household cleaning...helping take care of my grandson for my daughter,...stuff like that...I'm good with it though,...but really, the best part of this forum has been responding to your threads...and the particular fighters and the era you've chosen...I'm going back to that Romeo Anaya thread...and I have a couple of Japanese champs of the 70's that I'm going to start threads on!

 

Well my man, you're on a monumental roll in keeping it interesting and high quality...I can only look forward to more of the same!!

 

A big black hole in my film knowledge. I really enjoyed a bunch of (less insane) Japanese films from the 1950s and early 60s though.

Edit: Really enjoyed Sword of Doom (1967), if that’s one of the ones you had in mind. Samurai Rebellion too.