Hard Revenge Milly's Miki Mizuno Steps Into the Cage in Glass Dragon
Nik Shaw's MMA thriller Glass Dragon, starring Miki Mizuno and Mark Dacascos, has a new trailer after a festival screening in Hollywood, though a US release date is still to come.
Glass Dragon, the feature directing debut from Nik Shaw, is edging towards a proper US release. Film Combat Syndicate reports that the film screened at the Global Stage Hollywood festival at the end of September, and a trailer is now up on the festival's YouTube channel.
Miki Mizuno leads the cast. Fans of Japanese genre film will know her from the Bayside Shakedown series and the Hard Revenge Milly films, which is a decent CV for a fight movie. Here she plays a single mother who has to speed up her life plans when things go wrong for her and her daughter.
Mark Dacascos co-stars, alongside Maryjun Takahashi and Kiki Sukezane. Ryan Nichols wrote the script, and Malay Kim handled pre-viz for the fight action. Shaw's own label, RE:Anime, produced the film with Eleven Arts.
The film has been around for a while in one form or another. MPI Media picked it up for international sales back in 2023, and it came out on DVD in Japan in March. According to Film Combat Syndicate, Dark Sky Films is attached as the likely US distributor, but nobody has named a date yet.
We'll keep an eye out for that announcement. In the meantime, a Dacascos MMA thriller with Mizuno as the lead sounds like a fine way to spend a Friday night, once anyone outside Japan can actually watch it.
