Crime Hunter: Bullets of Rage (1989) – Shundo Okawa.

Following the slaying of his younger, inexperienced partner (Riki Takeuchi), the severely injured detective Joe (Masanori Sera), licks his mortal wounds, hands in his badge, hunting down those responsible, aided by a delicious, gun-toting nun, with her own score to settle. For 58 propulsive minutes of thrillingly unleavened, bullet-blasting hysteria, neophyte film-maker Okawa's frantic Crime Hunter: Bullets of Rage provides action addicts with a dopamine rush of gloriously gun-happy heroic bloodshed! With a zesty, but not altogether logical text, charismatic characters, and a killer synth score, Okawa packs in a blazingly high volume of kinetic gun-play, double-twisted duplicity, plus a gonzo John Woo'd climax, gorily replete with all the orgiastically blood-squibbed pathos the genre demands! While the director seems overtly critical of his own film, and apparently Beat Takeshi isn't a fan, I manifestly adored it! Crime Hunter: Bullets of Rage demonstratively retains all of its bravura, bullet-blasted brilliance, an auspicious debut, wholly deserving of its stunning HD restoration!