The tenth release of the legendary series is now on the big screen! Looking to break from his past, Jake shacks up in the middle of goddamn nowhere, but his world is turned upside down all over again when the beautiful Grace shows up on his doorstep. She's begging him to do one last, crazy heroic deed...
— Description from the Silver Pixel Cloud netsite, Cyberpunk 2077
The poster for Bushidō X: Fade to Black, showing the characters Jake and Grace in the front, and Gorira in the background.
Bushidō X: Fade to Black is a 2064 action film directed by Jacob Lamb.[1] It is the sequel to Bushidō 9: Dressed to Kill and the tenth installment in the famous Bushidō film series.
Overview[]
Bushidō X: Fade to Black premiered on March 2nd, 2064.[2] It was released in cinemas as well as in the braindance format. Despite the popularity of the Bushidō franchise, the film was a box office flop and lost a billion, after which Jacob Lamb retired from directing.[1]
The movie was also the last film screened at the Silver Pixel Cloud drive-in theatre in Night City before it got closed, and it was the one Rogue Amendiares and Johnny Silverhand saw while on their date there. V thought that Bushidō X "looked like a sprut of runny shit." Johnny calls the film "a turd wrapped in crepe paper," but remarks that it must have become a classic by 2077.[3]
Judy Álvarez seems to be a fan of the Bushidō series as she's got a deluxe limited collection of the 1-9 films in BD format, plus she also has a magazine about the tenth installment.
Cast[]
- Tim Kelly as Jake: The protagonist.[4]
- Karina Voronova as Grace: The deuteragonist and Jake's lover.[4]
- Steven Johnson as Gorira: The antagonist.[4]
- Makoto Shimote[2]
Articles[]
"Live fast, die never. Now for the 10nth time!"
Hot off the world's most famous action movie assembly line - the series that marked the border between classical and neokitsch and redefined PUNK. It's an all-new, all-bets-are-off, action-packed, sex-charged romp of pure destruction through the concrete jungle, where you wake up to the smell of burned tires and blood and take a shot of pure adrenaline for breakfast. In this grime-glittered city fueled on basic instinct, only the strongest, sexiest, and most FUCKED UP survive. Either that or they go down with a bang, face-down in a neon-reflected puddle of glass. Because everyone knows what the ancient Bushidō says - a true warrior lives as if he has already died a glorious death.
Join the MAYHEM and watch as our brooding hero Jake gets medieval on Gorira's ass.
IN THEATERS NOW: Bushidō X: Fade to Black
— Bushido X netsite, Cyberpunk 2077
... Especially worthy of note is the repetition in subsequent installments of the implant-bomb motif, through the prism of which the protagonist reinterprets reality. One example of this convention's flawless implementation appears in the latest film in the series, "Bushidō X: Fade to Black." The scene in which the powerful Gorira disembodies the arm of Jake - as played by the transcendent Tim Kelly - demonstrates in brilliant form the duality of the human condition. On the one hand, Jake loses his cybernetic arm - a symbol of both his tragic past and the ongoing techno-ontological conflict within his psyche. On the other hand, it is precisely due to this dismemberment that Gorira is blown to bloody bits by a sensational explosion sequence. And the final disintegration of the antagonist's body into a bloodspray of gore, how should this be interpreted? It is a metaphorical cry of deeply rooted despair, a manifestation of the personal transgression. This fragmentation of body could likewise be interpreted as a fragmentation of the individual mind, thus provoking the question: Whose mind? Indeed, had everything the viewer seen of Jake's struggle been, in fact, a personified, embodied fear? Had he not been embroiled in epic battle with a vile monster but rather only with himself? Could the entirety of Jake's narrative been only a manifestation of some cyberpsychotic dream-state? ...
Notes[]
- The ending scenes of the film can actually be viewed during the side job Blistering Love in Cyberpunk 2077.
- The car on the Bushidō X poster is a Makigai MaiMai.
- The last scene of the movie shows Jake prepping a yellow Quadra Type-66 640 TS.
Trivia[]
- Paweł Sasko said that Bushidō X is a Cyberpunk 2077 interpretation of the Fast and Furious franchise.[5]
Video[]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Gig: Playing for Keeps, Journal entry
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Scan results for the Bushidō X posters
- ↑ Blistering Love
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Bushidō X netsite in Cyberpunk 2077
- ↑ Quest Director plays Cyberpunk 2077! #66 (2:53:47)