Hard to Kill

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Image:Hard To Kill.jpgHard to Kill, a 1990 action film, where a detective, Mason Storm (Steven Seagal) is shot into a coma in the same fire-fight that kills his wife and family. He reawakens and seeks vengeance with the coma-ward nurse and his old partner.

It was rated R by the MPAA, and starred Steven Seagal, Kelly LeBrock, Frederick Coffin, William Sadler. It was directed by Bruce Malmuth and produced by: Gary Adelson, Joel Simon, Bill Todman Jr.

This film cemented Seagal's status as the "Aikido" action hero, due to the very esoteric, anachronistic techniques his character employs to overcome antagonists. For example "knee-walking" while in seiza(正座, literally "correct sitting") is employed to navigate a convenience store aisle without exposing the head to gunfire; this "technique" is actually a culturally-mandated etiquette (specific to pre-Meiji Japan and during some traditional arts such as the tea ceremony & Ikebana), rather than a combat method.

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