Nine years before taking up the reins of the long-awaited
Kickstarter funded sequel Samurai Cop 2, renowned film distributor and
Cinema Epoch company president turned indie filmmaker Gregory Hatanaka in his
third feature established himself in 2006 as the other notable industry name
besides David Lynch dabbling in surreal labyrinthine microbudget 480 interlaced
DV digital photography with his ultraviolent and hypersexual freakout Mad
Cowgirl.
--Andrew Kotwicki