Knife flick recommendations

This is what I meant by special, that is putting knives in a positive light (as you others have so aptly put).

Like Excaliber to Arthur or the "Iron Mistress" to Bowie or the lockback to Hopkins' Charles Morse (Edge).

Just found the description for Exposure... I must've missed that movie when it was released. The movie database says it had several titles including "A Grande Arte", "High Art" and "Knife Fighter"..might be at the video store under one of the other titles...and maybe in the foreign section since it was from Brazil.

Bone for those looking for art of knife flicking: the BM Axis Lock can be opened using just the axis studs (vs the thumb studs).
 
Rebel Without a Cause

only because I loved Natalie Wood

(does 'flicking' the knife away in midair count)
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Whoa, wait!

Big Trouble In Little China, khukri, balisong, and swords.

Bram Stroker's Dracula, khukris for everyone
 
I wouldn't consider it a 'knife flick', but I noticed a couple of weeks ago that there are a couple of shots of a full size tanto SOCOM (don't remember if it was D/A or not) in the Replacement Killers, but it never comes out of the case. Oh well.
 
What's the movie where a scruffy looking Las Vegas cabbie comes upon a robbery in progress and ends up with the money. Scott Glenn is the bad guy that chases him around with a nice lookin folder. What was that knife anyway?

Any way the Glenn character uses the knife on some street crook that tries to mug him.

You can find anything on the net.... It was called "The Night of the Running Man" , with Glenn and Andrew McCarthy. Anyone know anything about the knife Scott Glenn used?

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I'll second the motion on Commando with Arnold. It's a weapons documentary with some action and a little plot thrown in. Bought for $2 at Blockbuster, cheaper than renting it twice
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There was a flop called Pirates with Walter Matthauw(sp?) that had a character called Froggy. His swordsmanship was a sight to behold.
 
If you like sword movies there is one starring Eric Roberts i think called By The Sword. It is about fencing. A lady classmate of mine in court reporting school was women's national fencing champion and she was asked to appear in one of the scenes in the background. I'll have to check it out again, too, as it's been a long time since i saw it.
Jim
 
crocadile dundee is a great knife flick.

fixed blade vs auto in the sceen where the punk tries to rob him.

punk pulls a switchblade and says "give me your money."

dundee's lady says"give him the money." dundee says "why?"
she says "he has a knife."
dundee looks at the punks blade, laughs and says "thats not a knife" and pulls out a 8-10 inch bowie hanging across his back,holds it up and says "Thats a knife."

punk runs away.
 
If you want to see an intense and well made movie try to hunt down Shogun Assassin. There are more edged weapons in it then possibly any movie I have ever seen (not to mention severed limbs). A small childs baby
carriage even has blades attached. I'm curious to see if anyone else has seen this underground "classic".
 
V-1,

I've seen it I think, gruesome. Woke up at 3am and turned on the TV flipped through the channels to see what's on. Saw blood squirting and said 'cool'. Don't remember much except guys head getting split in half, arms getting cut off, man getting sliced up buy some woman, man thowing baby down well so he could cut up some BGs, he cleans the blood off his blade buy slicing the blade through the air so fast the blood stays then falls to the ground. If those scenes were from the movie you saw then yes I've seen it.
 
Memnoch: I don't know how I'd rate CD as a knife flick, but you're right, that's one of my all time favorite scenes.

V-1: I saw that movie. It was also called "Lone Wolf in the Wilderness" at one time, I think. I vaguely recall the obligatory Ninja assassins at the beginning. Don't know that there's a samurai flick that's gotten past me, tho the whole sword thing is another genre. Try and catch "The Last Samurai" one of these days...nice slow motion shot of a head rolling down the stairs in the dark.

not2sharp and David: I saw Commando.. heck if you can use a knife as a tool, I guess Arnold shows how turnabout's fair play by using a pitchfork and circular saw blade as weapons. Must've been quite a knife collection in that show...seems there was a knife fight at the end too (the "let some steam out" scene).
 
Professor: Christopher Lambert must have an attraction to Japanese swords (Hunted and Highlander).

Colin: Anyone ever make an all ceramic knife (like the crys-knife of Dune..acutally the tooth of a worm)? What was that they always said before a fight..."may your knife shatter and break".
 
Maddog makes a ceramic knife, and you can get it with a white blade which looks like a "Dune" knife. If I can find the picture I'll post a link.

Found it:<img src= "http://www.streetpro.com/gif/md/2mxs.jpg" MD CrysKnife>
I hope this works.
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The Knife Collectors show on the tube is awesome!!! They just picked some scrub off the street and hired him to futily stick the POS knives in the rotating stump.

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Back to movies...
Shogun Assassin is a composite film made up of several episodes of the Lone Wolf and Cub "baby cart" series. I first saw that film in '81, and it is graphic but well-made, like all the baby cart flicks. I believe the lead actor is Tomisaburo Wakayama, who I belive had a small role as the old Yakuza boss in Black Rain. And unlike Toshiro Mifune, he apparently was an experienced martial artist (Judo and perhaps Kendo).
Jim
 
The TV show Mortal Combat: Qonquest has had a few well chosen fantasy designs like the flying dragon, the Hibben leviathan, and one other Hibben, which I forgot(I think it was the dragonlord). This show has awsome martial arts and the addition of cool knives made me a loyal viewer. By the way, ALL HAIL TO THE KNIFE COLLECTORS SHOW, Tom Odell, and Shawn Leflar!!!! This show is great. I came for the knives, I stayed for the Humor.
 
James Y: Mifune may not be experienced, but I believe I've read that he has some kendo training and is supposedly qualified to do his own sword fight scenes.

Favorite Mifune knife scene was from Red Sun, with Charles Bronson and Mifune settling down to sleep outdoors:

Bronson: Damn mosquitos!

Mifune (sitting in the dark, listening to the buzz, hand on tanto): No.. only one mosquito.

(Swish of a blade, buzz stops)

Mifune: No mosquito!
 
"The Patriot" has a D/A SOCOM that is briefly used by the bad guy (Jonathan Winters look alike). It looks like the clip point, but may be the tanto. Not too bad of a flick, if you like Segal.

I'll have to rent Shogun Assassin. Sounds too cool. BTW, is it dubbed?

Later,
Chris
 
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