Desperado / El Mariachi / Once Upon a Time in Mexico - BLU-RAY [Standard]

Three-disc set includes El Mariachi (1993)Made for a paltry $7,000 for the Hispanic home video market and eventually raking in worldwide nearly 300x that, writer/director Robert Rodriguez's much-acclaimed action-comedy tells the tale of a Mariachi singer (Carlos Gallardo) who finds himself in the middle of a gang rivalry when he's mistaken for a gun-toting killer. Hip, funny, and explosively violent, the indie classic co-stars Consuelo Gomez, Peter Marquardt, Reinol Martínez. 81 min. In Spanish with English subtitles. C/Rtg R Desperado (1995)Robert Rodriguez's remake of his made-on-pennies sensation InchEl MariachiInch is an explosive actioner starring Antonio Banderas as the swaggering guitar-playing loner who takes on a series of hombres in a Mexican town ruled by a druglord (Joaquim de Almeida) with whom he has a score to settle. Salma Hayek is his fetching romantic interest; cameos are turned in by Quentin Tarantino, Cheech Marin, Steve Buscemi, Danny Trejo. 103 min. C/Rtg R Once Upon A Time In Mexico (2003)In the third and final entry in Robert Rodriguez's series, Antonio Banderas' gunslinger, El Mariachi, is out for vengeance after his wife (Salma Hayek) and their young daughter are killed by drug kingpin Barillo (Willem Dafoe), who is about to have the president of Mexico assassinated. Before he can bring down Barillo, however, Mariachi must deal with a rogue CIA agent (Johnny Depp), an ex-agency operative (Ruben Blades), and a Barillo associate (Mickey Rourke). With Eva Mendes. 102 min. C/Rtg R

Starring the iconic and beautiful Meiko Kaji (Lady Snowblood, Stray Cat Rock) in a role that came to define her career, the four-film Female Prisoner Scorpion series charts the vengeance of Nami Matsushima, who assumes the mantle of InchScorpion,Inch becoming an avatar of vengeance and survival, and an unlikely symbol of female resistance in a male-dominated world. Female Prisoner #701 Scorpion introduces Nami, a gullible young woman unjustly imprisoned, who must find a way to escape in order to exact revenge upon the man who betrayed her. The visually avant-garde Female Prisoner Scorpion Jailhouse 41 sees director Shunya Ito and star Meiko Kaji re-unite as Nami and six other female convicts escape prison once more. The Gothic horror-inspired Beast Stable finds Nami branded public enemy #1 and on the run. She soon finds refuge with a sympathetic prostitute, but runs afoul of a local gang. The final film in the series, #701's Grudge Song (from director Yasuharu Hasebe, Retaliation, Massacre Gun), shows a gentler side of Nami as she falls in with Kudo, an ex-radical suffering from physical and psychological trauma caused by police torture. Spiritual kin to Ms. 45, Coffy and The Bride Wore Black, Female Prisoner Scorpion is the pinnacle of early 1970s exploitation cinema from Japanese grindhouse studio Toei, and one of the greatest female revenge sagas ever told.

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