The Killer Elite

[Machine Translation] The 11th film from Sam Peckinpah, the most unique director of his career and a master of depicting extreme violence. The film is a large-scale entertainment action film about "elite killers" who kill each other using all kinds of deadly techniques, including fierce gun battles, karate, kung fu, and ninja techniques. Especially, in the strange battle of the ninja army that suddenly appears in the latter half of the film, the ninja action is explosive, which even Tarantino, the director of "Kill Bill," would have been proud of. The film is written by Sterling Silliphant, the Academy Award-winning screenwriter of "The Night's Greatest Cops" ('67), and features the late Bruce Lee as a martial arts master. Silliphant, who had received martial arts training from the late Bruce Lee, included kung fu scenes in the script and even introduced a ninja group, resulting in the first ninja film made in Hollywood. The cast includes James Caan (The Godfather), Robert Duvall (The Organization), and Gig Young (Garcia's Head). The film, which cost over $6 million to produce, was controversial for its absurd content, but was released in the U.S. in December 1975 and quickly became a smash hit that recouped its production costs. --Mike is a member of Comteg, a private security organization in San Francisco, when he is betrayed by his comrade George in the line of duty and is mortally wounded. With a single-minded determination for revenge, Mike revives himself through desperate rehabilitation and heads for a showdown with his nemesis. However, George's own organization is behind him. To take revenge against the organization that betrayed him, he takes on a group of expert killers...

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凄絶な暴力描写の巨匠、サム・ペキンパー監督のキャリアの中でも最も異彩を放つ監督第11作目。壮絶な銃撃戦、空手、クンフー、忍法などあらゆる必殺テクニックを駆使して殺しあう"殺しのエリート"たちを描く大型娯楽アクション! 特に劇中後半に突如登場するニンジャ軍団の奇妙な戦いでは、『キル・ビル』のタランティーノ監督も真っ青の忍者アクションが炸裂する。スタッフにはペキンパー作品の常連が名を連ね、脚本には『夜の大捜査線』(67)にてアカデミーを受賞した名脚本家、スターリング・シリファント。故ブルース・リーに武術指導を受けていたシリファントは脚本にクンフー場面を盛り込み忍者集団まで登場させ、結果ハリウッド製映画初のニンジャ映画となった。キャストでは『ゴッドファーザー』のジェームズ・カーンのほか、『組織』のロバート・デュヴァル、『ガルシアの首』のギグ・ヤングなど骨のある役者が勢ぞろいしている。製作費が600万ドルを超えた本作は、その荒唐無稽な内容から賛否両論を巻き起こしたが、1975年12月に全米公開され、瞬く間に製作費を回収するスマッシュ・ヒットとなった。 ――サンフランシスコの民間護衛組織コムテグに所属するマイクは、任務の中で仲間のジョージの裏切りにあい、瀕死の重傷を負う。復讐という一念で必死のリハビリにより復活したマイクは宿敵との対決に向かう。しかしジョージの背後には自らが所属する組織の影があった。自分を裏切った組織への復讐のため、殺しのエキスパートたちを引き連れ立ち向かっていく・・・。