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Kane Kosugi

Joe Jinno

Shô Aikawa

Det. Aguri Katsuragi

Masaya Katô

Rai Kenjin

Misato Tachibana

Akane Katsuragi

Noboru Kaneko

Ken

Ikkei Watanabe

Asakura

Joe Li

Rai Kenkyo
(as Joe Lee)

Wai-Kwong Lo

Lee
(as Kenneth Low)

Shinya Hashimoto

Muscle Dome Wrestler A

Noriko Watanabe

Ryoko Tachibana

Yoshihiro Takayama

Muscle Dome Wrestler B

Naoto Takenaka

Tajima, the Street Better

Clement Adamson

Muscle Dome Gaurdsman

Muscle Dome Wrestler B's Opponent
(uncredited)

Director
- Ten Shimoyama
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Trivia
Wai-Kwong Lo nearly suffered paralysis during his fight scene against Kane Kosugi when he was smacked against a metal cage on a wire. After 5 minutes of motionless, Lo was okay and continued shooting the fight scene.

Quotes
Rai Kenjin: What are you fighting for, Joe?
Joe Jinno: To kill you!
Rai Kenjin: Wrong... that's just the way we are, Joe!

MUSCLE HEAT was dead on arrival. The film offers up one of those cheap tournament fighting storylines popular in the late '80s and '90s, but really does nothing for the moviegoing public nowadays. The film's biggest draw is its star, Kane Shosugi, who is quite a good martial artist. His action scenes outside the ring are impressive, but once he enters the tournament, all the fighting becomes tedious and repetitive. More action sequences in the real world would have been a better way to go.

As it stands, MUSCLE HEAT isn't a complete failure. I'd like to see more from Shosugi, preferably in a better environment, with a better story. Action films are fine, but there's something to be said for falling back on tiresome genres like the whole tournament thing.

5 out of 10

(go to www.nixflix.com for a more detailed review of this movie and reviews of other foreign films)