Full post about Red Sun Rising on !bmoviebonanza@lemmy.world
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Last night on https://watch.vcr.party/ (Mastodon) we watched Red Sun Rising (1994), a Don "The Dragon" Wilson martial arts movie so classy its full title is actually Red Sun Rising: Based on the Legend of the Death Touch.
Before we even get through the opening titles, it's clear we are in a familiar location: The Japanese Garden at The Donald C. Tillman Water Reclamation Plant in Van Nuys, Los Angeles, California.
You know... Starfleet Academy.
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Tillman_Water_Reclamation_Plant
Watch the video if you'd like to see the familiar grounds of Starfleet Academy but instead of a sage old man imparting nuggets of wisdom, you want to see a evil wizard ninja imparting sensuous neck snappings.
Oh yeah, content warning: sensuous neck snapping.
Bonus: the lead female role is acted by Terry Farrell, playing a racist LAPD cop. (Don't worry, though, in the end it turns out... she's not quite as racist as the other LAPD cops.)
Bonus bonuses:
- The evil wizard ninja is played by James Lew, "uncredited stunt Romulan" (words I want on my headstone). https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/James_Lew (Also in the truly terrible Shira The Vampire Samurai.)
- Head FBI agent played by Edward Albert https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Edward_Laurence_Albert
Guess I know what I'm watching next
Boothby also played an alien in a 60s sitcom called My Favorite Martian