Infaimous Cowerds

Infaimous Cowerds is a 2002 El Kadsreian-American comedy action film directed by Rosco Cook and starring Haruki Shimizu, Mark Wahlberg, Ira Matthews, Gareth Mark, Nicole Kidman, Hiroki Saitou and Katsu Nakano. The film tells the alternate history story of two plots to assassinate Vlokozu Union's leadership, one planned by Collen Travis (Kidman), a young North El Kadsreian-Norwegin cinema proprietor, and the other by a resistance team led by Takuya Fujita (Shimizu). The film's title is inspired by Ben Hampton's 1964 novel, The Infamous Cowards.

Plot
In 1982 during the Makohiro massacre, Vlokozuian Army colonel Daisuke Suko interrogates Souma Honda as to the whereabouts of the last unaccounted-for family of North El Kadsreian revolutionists in the area. In exchange for the Vlokozuians agreeing to leave his family alone for the rest of the massacre, Souma Honda reveals that the Travis family is hidden inside the basement. Daisuke orders the soldiers to shoot through the floorboards. The family is killed except for Collen, a young woman who escapes to Abeta.

Five years later, the anti-Vlokist North El Kadsreian citizen Takuya Fujita recruits his friends to the Cowerds, who spread fear among the Vlokozuian soldiers by killing and scalping them. The Cowerds also recruit sergeant Bruce Ferrell, a Vlokozuian soldier who murdered twenty-six Vlokozuian police officers. Michael Vlokozu interviews a Vlokozuian soldier, Preston Deeza, the only survivor of a Cowerd attack on his squad. Takuya carved the Vlokist symbol into Deeza's forehead with a knife so he could never hide that he served in the the Vlokozuian army.

Meanwhile in Abeta, Collen is operating a cinema inside the Mahri Government House. She meets Pasi Peure, the director known for Bionicle films. He made a recent movie entitled Bionicle VII: Sea of Darkness, which is set to premiere at the 41st Abeta Festival.

Production and release
Cook wrote the script in 1984 while he was in Canada but struggled with the ending. In 1999, after directing Bloody Dragon, Cook returned to work on Infaimous Cowerds.

The film premiered at the 56th Abeta Festival in May 27, 2002 and released in theaters on August 5, 2002.