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NINJA!
Topic Started: Mar 23 2009, 08:22 AM (6,079 Views)
petcor80
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:ph43r:

I've been reading this thread at AV Maniacs of our own Jack with great interest:
http://www.avmaniacs.com/forums/showthread.php?t=40908
and thought it might be time then afterall, for our own ninja thread.

What are the must see ninja flicks? and the craziest???
I heard that "five element ninja" is the best in these two regards, but this "Ninja Final Duel" sounds like the one to rule them all!

My favourite has always been Enter the Ninja, because it has a nice gritty feel to it that was even a bit shocking to me when I saw it at a young and tender age :lol:
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Mar 23 2009, 08:22 AM
:ph43r:

I've been reading this thread at AV Maniacs of our own Jack with great interest:
http://www.avmaniacs.com/forums/showthread.php?t=40908
and thought it might be time then afterall, for our own ninja thread.

What are the must see ninja flicks? and the craziest???
I heard that "five element ninja" is the best in these two regards, but this "Ninja Final Duel" sounds like the one to rule them all!

My favourite has always been Enter the Ninja, because it has a nice gritty feel to it that was even a bit shocking to me when I saw it at a young and tender age  :lol:

There's plenty, but Shô Kosugi & Franco Nero in Enter the Ninja + other ninja movies with Kosugi.

Then there's Godfrey Ho with his Harrison ninja movies. You should watch one Godfey classic and after that decide if you actually want to see more of them.
Godfrey's receipe for success is simple: Any movie + ninja footage = success! :lol:

Then there's the American Ninjas. Would I recommend them? Never(!), but I think you should see them anyway. :lol:
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NINJA TERMINATOR have always been my favorite of the horde of cut-n-splice ninja's Joseph Lai's IFD Films & Arts unleashed upon an unsuspecting world. Why? This imdb review sums it up pretty good (even though the reviewer somehow fails to mention both Richard Harrisons Garfield telephone and the "drunken crab incident"):
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Here my friends, is a veritable Z-movie classic!

All the ingredients for a sure fire, fun filled evening are present in great abundance in this: Dire dubbing/dialogue, a suitably goofy plot, lots of fighting/action and a plethora of scenes that will leave your mouth agape as you ask yourself...'What the hell just happened there?!'

As with all the other ninja movies by Godfrey Ho, what we are witness to here is a completely separate and non-ninja related film into which some newly shot ninja footage has been spliced, whilst an illusionary link between the two unrelated stories is created and sustained by the over dubbing.

It has to be said, that in the majority of these cut and splice ninja outings, only the ninja footage is of any real fun. However, in the case of Ninja Terminator, BOTH 'movies' prove to be highly enjoyable!

In the non ninja sequences we have one ultra cool dude by the name of Jaguar Wong. Now let me tell you that this guy gets in more fights in this one movie than most professional boxers have in their entire career! Not only that but he wins every time with the utmost ease - in fact he's just soooooo cool! (although he does get a bit roughed up during the films climax by the always excellent Hwang Jang Lee) And.....to top it all off, seemingly just to demonstrate just how cool he really is, he has a constant smirk on his face during all this action!!!! Wow! - What a man! Move over James Bond!

The ninja sequences are equally as energetic with loads of sword play, acrobatics and people disappearing in plumes of smoke etc. (and of course, as he often does in these films, Richard Harrison wearing heavy mascara!)

But the best bit of all just has to be the rather bizarre method the ninja empire utilises to send messages to traitors......they send a toy robot!!!!!!!

Who the hell thought that one up?!

It really is a credit to the actors concerned here, that they managed to keep straight faces during scenes like that!

All in all, if you have a good sense of humour then you should rush out and watch this movie straight away! - It's all good natured (demented) fun!


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Although I have to say the shot-on-video ninja flick COMMANDO THE NINJa you sent me, Petcor, is almost up with this classic.
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Mar 23 2009, 09:51 AM
Although I have to say the shot-on-video ninja flick COMMANDO THE NINJa you sent me, Petcor, is almost up with this classic.

wait till you've seen the sequel Born a Ninja! mindblowing stuff :)

haven't seen ninja terminator yet, might check it out after I've settled down from my last pile of IFD madness...
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its not a real ninja movie, more samurai revenge etc

lady snowblood - just watched it a few days ago, great movie! if you didnt see it yet please do


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a very cool movie indeed but not ninja. some jidaigeki / chambara pictures feature ninja though, they might even be the earliest examples of ninja in movies! so, good call, although other examples might be better like the shinobi-no mono series from the early 60's

anyone knows the (confirmed) very first appearance of a ninja character in cinema???
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Mar 23 2009, 09:22 AM

I've been reading this thread at AV Maniacs of our own Jack with great interest:

:ph43r: :ph43r: :D

Günter Müller of "Weird Asia" site put up a pretty good site called "Return of the Ninjas" only with ninja films. He doesn't update it anymore but there's tons of cool reviews and lists of ninja films. I recommend you check it out (and it's such a los to fandom that Günter doesn't wanna write anymore! :( ).

http://mitglied.lycos.de/gollumslair/ninjaindex.htm
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Petcor80: I have greek tape of something called MASKED NINJA RED SHADOW, which is a 1967 TV series edited down to feature lenght. Of course it's more a live action superhero film than a ninja flick, but at least it's the first mention of the word "ninja" in any films that i've encountered... (then again i'm no expert at asian cinema)

Can't wait to see BORN A NINJA... I'm a little bit sick and probably won't go to work tomorrow, I think I just realised how I will spend the afternoon... :)
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Mar 23 2009, 04:45 PM
I think I just realised how I will spend the afternoon... :)

Putting on lipstick and a wig??
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Mar 23 2009, 03:50 PM
Putting on lipstick and a wig??

Yeah, while making fake phonecalls to the suicide hotline. And maybe round off with an IFD ninja flick or two. A usual day in my life.
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