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Russ Pine

Posted inAuburn Gresham, Features

79th Street Shogun

by Isabel Ochoa Gold November 6, 2013November 9, 2013

t 79th Street Video, a video rental store purported to be the home of Chicago’s largest selection of martial arts movies, founder and owner Russ Pine pulls the movie “Shogun Assassin” out from the shelves. He slams it onto the counter and beams. He says that the film, which features a child in a bulletproof […]

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