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September 2007

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Japanime
Andrez Bergen rounds up both the animated and live-action news from Japan...

Akshay Kumar
John Mosby talks to top Bollywood action man Akshay Kumar about his career and the rise of Bollywood�s popularity across the world in recent years...

Bourne To Run
After losing his �Identity� and ascending to �Supremacy�, will Matt Damon�s �Ultimatum� live up to the hype? We think so...

Invisible Target
New Police Story director Benny Chan returns with Invisible Target, a hard hitting Police thriller that confirms that Hong Kong action cinema is very much alive and kicking! Impact�s Eastern Editor Mike Leeder casts an eye over the result...

Rush Hour 3
Chan and Tucker are back on the case. Will Paris survive the experience and does the franchise still pack a punch?

Beserk
This month sees Anime Attack head back to the dark ages with an ultra-violent tale of sword and sorcery courtesy of MVM and based on the best selling adult manga by Kento Miura.

Jin Roh
Mamoru Oshii writes this twisted anime adaptation of Little Red Riding Hood.

D'oh Business!
The Simpsons movie finally hit cinemas last month. Impact recalls some of our favourite action-movie homages from the long-running anarchic animation.

Earth, Wind and Ire
It's taken a long time for the Earthsea stories to reach the screen, but will the latest anime offering be better received (by the fans and the author herself) than the previous live-action outing? Life and film-making is never that simple...

Fallen Angels
Hard and gritty Seraphin Falls may do for the American West what The Proposition did for the Australian Outback. Stars Pierce Brosnan and Liam Neeson discuss the story of revenge and survival...

Shaw Brothers
We continue to look at the legacy of the studio responsible for so much eastern action. This month Gordon �Scratch� Lee and examines three very different but classic films from the Shaw Library...

Dolph Lundgren
If you thought that he retired from making movies or that the Dolph-in was on the verge of extinction, just think again. Dolph Lundgren, the imposing Swedish born action star returns!

Pilgrim's Progress: Mark Ryan Talks
From Sherwood to Hollywood and from the Irish battlefield to outer space, the versatile actor/choreographer/action-man Mark Ryan tells us about the �buzz� surrounding this summer�s Transformers.

Asian Extreme
Impact takes a look at the UK�s new Asian Fever label (an off-shoot from Elephant Films), which makes it debut with the titles Blue (2003), Colour of the Loyalty (2005), My Wife is a Gangster 2 (2003) and She�s on Duty (2005).

Far From Fragile
Are they bad, misunderstood or just drawn that way? Beau Smith looks at the bad guys of comics...

State of the Action: Bad For Good
...and John Mosby, John Bierly and Mike Leeder look at the villains of the cinema and TV screens.

Multimedia
Covered this month:
DVDs: The Breed, Deadwood: Season 3 Boxset, Jindabyne
Books: Al Pacino: The Authorized Biography, Empire Movie Miscellany, The Screenwriter's Handbook
Games: Ninja Gaiden Sigma

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