The movie is all about going from big, powerful guys and gruesome death scenes to more and more and more gruesome death scenes and more powerful guys. Add to that, an intricate story line that follows through and makes sense. Now, I'm also a big fan of comedy, and this movie satisfied the comedy WITH the violence! It's genius, because so few people see this. A lot of people hate this film because it is a blood fest with 'no point', but you have to understand, the point of the movie is to MAKE FUN of the whole thing. This is the most violent movie possibly EVER released. This movie satisfied that to the extreme. This great anime gets a perfect 10/10 from me. A definite must see but avoid the American live action film. Fist Of The North Star along with Urotsukidoji is my favourite Japanese anime movie of all time. One has this guy called Rei (or Ray?) looking for his sister and is also looking for the guy responsible for kidnapping her. In the meantime his eldest brother Raoh has amassed an army and is trying to conquer the world. If he punches anybody they explode shortly after. Ken walks through the barren wasteland (it's set after a nuclear war) and kills bad guys with his style of fighting. It's about a guy called Ken who must get his girlfriend back from his former best friend Shin who beat up Ken, kidnapped his girlfriend and left him for dead. I'll quickly give a brief summary of the story. Also there seems that there are a few gaps in it which makes me wonder if there has been a scene or two edited out or cut down (atleast in the UK version). Only thing that bugs me (just like the series) is that the gore scenes are usually blurred or we see peoples shadows exploding. FOTNS is obviously to some extent based on Mad Max but a heck of a lot better. It has action, adventure, comedy, gore, thrills, spills and for those people disgusted by the sex scenes in Urotsukidoji you'll be happy to know that FOTNS is sex free. I watched the movie just over ten years ago and was quite literally blown away by it.

It has better animation, better voice acting (in English) and is less repetitive. I have to admit that even though the series has more info and detail about the fighting styles etc i think that the movie is slightly better. I've just got through watching the first 36 episodes of the TV series of Fist Of The North Star on DVD and until a couple of days ago i thought the TV series came after the movie.

Fist of the north star game looks cool