Jun Gallardo

Jun Gallardo was a Filipino B-movie director, who started his career with martial arts movies in the 1970s and continued to Z-movie actioners in the 1980s, often produced by K.Y. Lim's Silver Star Film Company. Silver Star was a notorious but prolific producer of extremely low-budget action films, characterized by very low production values. Gallardo directed Richard Harrison in Intrusion: Cambodia (1983) and Rescue Team (1983), also starring a cast of Silver Star workhorses such as Romano Kristoff, Jim Gaines, Mike Monty, Mike Cohen, and Ronnie Patterson. The assistant director of Intrusion Cambodia was Teddy Page, another prolific Silver Star director. Gallardo directed Kristoff and Monty again in Slash (1984), a film influenced by the Rambo series starring Sylvester Stallone, to the point of plagiarism. Slash also featured Nick Nicholson and Gwendolyn Hung. Another film of debatable note was Commando Invasion (1986), which featured Gordon Mitchell, Ken Watanabe, not to be confused with the more famous Ken Watanabe, and former model Tetchie Agbayani (as Carol Roberts, also in Intrusion Cambodia). Gallardo also directed Christopher Mitchum twice, in Master Samurai (1974), and SFX Retaliator (1987), the latter also starring Linda Blair and Gordon Mitchell. The shoddily made actioner The Firing Line (1988), starring Reb Brown and Shannon Tweed, as well as featuring a small role from Monty, appears to be Gallardo's final directorial work. He seems to be now retired from film.