Back To The Shadows - The Ninja Genre Appreciation Thread

[Shaolivevil]

On 4/4/2017 at 3:40 PM, DragonClaws said:

STORIES FROM THE TRENCHES: The Official Sam Fistneberg book (Kickstarter)

 

Please view the video link below for more detials about this Kickstarter project.

 

I'm backing this. I really hope this book will get funded...

[DragonClaws]

VHS cover for Ninja Avenger(1983) a.k.a Impossible Woman starring Elsa Yang.

 

The same artwork, right down to the cast and crew have been used for this movie. The title and plot description are for an entirely different production.

[DragonClaws]

[DragonClaws]

Re-titled VHS release for A Life Of Ninja(1983), Directed by Lee Tso Nam.

Edited April 27, 2017 by DragonClaws

[lungfei]

for years i used to think this scene was a reshoot where they got wang tao back to fight ninjas to make ninja thunderbolt look like one continuous movie much like was done with city ninja but it appears to be a ninja movie of it's own.

http://flkcinema.com/product.php?mid=93

http://hkmdb.com/db/movies/view.mhtml?id=10388&display_set=eng

 

[lungfei]

http://templeofschlock.blogspot.co.uk/2016/12/movie-ad-of-week-ninja-grand-masters-of.html

[DragonClaws]

6 hours ago, lungfei said:

for years i used to think this scene was a reshoot where they got wang tao back to fight ninjas to make ninja thunderbolt look like one continuous movie much like was done with city ninja but it appears to be a ninja movie of it's own.

Thats news to me, thanks for sharing this info on the forums.

 

The following poster was posted on Mike Leeders Twitter page, click on the link below for more re-imagined ninja posters.

Link- https://twitter.com/bigmikeleeder?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^author

[DragonClaws]

Miscellaneous Ninja movie VHS covers.

[DragonClaws]

Cool article on the short lived 80's action series The Master. While the 80's was a great time for action related T.V shows such as the A-Team and Airwolf, The Master was only a short lived series. Odd, when you consider how popular Martial Arts movies were at the time, in particular the Cannon ninja films. With U.S T.V companies and Fim studios  re-making/re-booting old movies and shows, maybe this one might get an up-date?.

Link- http://vintageninja.net/?p=8666

 

 

More informatio related to the series in the following Wikipedia article.

Link- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Master_(TV_series)

 

Edited May 6, 2017 by DragonClaws

[DragonClaws]

Anyone seen this low budget Martial Arts actioner, Ninja Vengeance(1988)?

IMDB- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095745/

 

[DragonClaws]

VHS cover scan from VHSCollector.com

 

Re-titled/re-packaging release of non nnja movie The Killer in White(1980) a.k.a Killer Wears White, starring Stephen Tung Wai & Roy Chiao. Yet another VHS release that exploited the 1980's ninja craze. The artwork appears to be inspired by both Enter The Nnja and Drunken Master. It's a decent Martil Art movie in its own right, but anyone expecting a ninja movie will be left disapointed.

 

[lungfei]

On 4/23/2017 at 5:52 PM, DragonClaws said:

 

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KUNG FU OF THE FIVE HAND NINJA GANG is a Terry Levene/Aquarius classic. It played theaters from 1983 through '85 under that title, but I think it's a re-titling of their 1974 release FORCED TO FIGHT, portions of which had been previously spliced into FIST OF FEAR, TOUCH OF DEATH (1980). Levene re-released it again in 1988 as BLOOD KICK and actually got it into a few of the same New York-area theaters that were showing BLOODSPORT!

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We screened the first reel of a print with the BLOODKICK: KUNG-FU OF THE FIVE HAND NINJA GANG title card at an American Genre Film Archive event tonight, and I can confirm that it is indeed FORCED TO FIGHT (INVINCIBLE SUPER CHAN)

http://templeofschlock.blogspot.co.uk/2010/08/random-movie-ads-martial-arts-edition.html

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:YBIqr2yDz2UJ:www.avmaniacs.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-27742.html%3Fs%3D2443f40adb91e46c7b7d40c0cff098e5+&cd=6&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk&client=firefox-b

 

Edited May 10, 2017 by lungfei

[DragonClaws]

On 10/05/2017 at 3:52 PM, lungfei said:

http://templeofschlock.blogspot.co.uk/2010/08/random-movie-ads-martial-arts-edition.html

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:YBIqr2yDz2UJ:www.avmaniacs.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-27742.html%3Fs%3D2443f40adb91e46c7b7d40c0cff098e5+&cd=6&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk&client=firefox-b

Appreciate the additional back ground @lungfei.

 

[Tosh]

I just realized Dudikoff was the comical pilled out suicidal friend in Tom Hank's Bachelor Party 

Classic - I loved that movie as a kid!

[DragonClaws]

[ShaOW!linDude]

On 5/8/2017 at 0:26 PM, DragonClaws said:

Anyone seen this low budget Martial Arts actioner, Ninja Vengeance(1988)?

IMDB- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095745/

 

Yes, about 25 yrs ago. I would encourage anyone interested to steer clear of this. It is a snoozefest. The story is laborious to sit through, the choreography is awful. The only good thing about it is getting to see Stephen Hayes demonstrate some ninja techniques on film, and that's very limited.

[DrNgor]

On 2017-5-8 at 2:26 PM, DragonClaws said:

Anyone seen this low budget Martial Arts actioner, Ninja Vengeance(1988)?

IMDB- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095745/

 

You know, if it was a girl behind the mask on the front cover, you could say she's a Ku Klux Kunoichi (KKK)....I'll be here all week, folks!

[DragonClaws]

On 20/05/2017 at 5:11 PM, ShaOW!linDude said:

Yes, about 25 yrs ago. I would encourage anyone interested to steer clear of this. It is a snoozefest. The story is laborious to sit through, the choreography is awful. The only good thing about it is getting to see Stephen Hayes demonstrate some ninja techniques on film, and that's very limited.

Perfect for anyone suffering from insomnia then, thanks for the feedback @ShaOW!linDude.

[DragonClaws]

 

Thanks to @HyperDrive for making me aware of this interview, from the following Sho Kosugi DVD set.

 

[lungfei]

 

Edited May 24, 2017 by lungfei

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Edited May 29, 2017 by DragonClaws

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