The English dubbed version of this film happened to find its way onto a four disc DVD set entitled “The Ultimate Pirate Collection” [many of the selections are hit-or-miss within the silly genre, as one would expect]. However, the crown jewel of Camp in the collection is easily Colossus and the Amazon Queen.
I’ll confess that I watched the entire awesome spectacle of cheeziness [yes, cheeZ, not merely cheese] that this so-called pirate flick spread out before my eyes in a visual smorgasbord of The Astonishingly Bad.
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Ugh — so I’m pretty damn sure Freud would have a field day with this one, but I’ll write the gist of last night’s dream anyway.
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“Under the flag
Of each his faction, they to battle bring
Their embryon atoms.” – Milton
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This didn’t resize well in WP, but I’m not feeling to inclined to fix it this morning.
For a certain ex-member of the hotaru clan. 
Kareeda ni
Karasu no tomarikeri
Aki no kure
On the dead limb
squats a crow –
autumn night.
~ A haiku from Matsuo Basho (1664-1694).
Image: Crows, 1766; pair of six-fold screens; ink and gold on paper by Maruyama Okyo (like Basho, also from the Edo period).
