SUPER NINJAS press stills
The garish and gory Shaw Bros. shinobi slaughterhouse Five Element Ninjas (aka Chinese Super Ninjas or in this case just Super Ninjas) is a familiar to readers of this site – we spent a week on the film a while … Continued
The garish and gory Shaw Bros. shinobi slaughterhouse Five Element Ninjas (aka Chinese Super Ninjas or in this case just Super Ninjas) is a familiar to readers of this site – we spent a week on the film a while … Continued
Had a reader on the VN Facebook page (have you ‘Liked’ us? If not, SHAME!) post a great question: “If you had to distill your favorite ninja films into a grievously unfair list of only 5, what would they be?” … Continued
OK, so we all love martial arts movies, but what does that term actually mean? Are what we think of as martial arts films actually about martial arts? A lot of martial artists aren’t genre film fans themselves, gratuitous fights … Continued
Stephen Turnbull, noted author of ninja books from a military history perspective, riddles his former work with shuriken in the remarkable new NINJA: UNMASKING THE MYTH.
A review of Samurai Reincarnation (Makai Tensho — 1981) by guest columnist Tenebrous Kate __________________________________________ EDITOR’S NOTE: While Kinji Fukasaku’s version of this surreal epic, starring Sonny Chiba, Kenji Sawada, Akiko Kana, and Hiroyuki Sanada isn’t an outright ninja movie, between Chiba’s shinobi-pedigreed … Continued