Italian ‘Enemies of Evil’
Card-back art, courtesy of Geek Orthodox, from the Ninja Warriors: Enemies of Evil 80’s toyline.
Great WATARI stuff…
…over at the fired-out-of-a-cannon blog Ultra Guro (again)! Tons more over there, too. God I love this movie…
Ninja festival families
Via Austrailia’s Daily Telegraph, absolutely awesome candids from a 2008 Iga ninja festival: Read more about these touristy parades and festivals here and here.
If you get this…
…its really funny, AND you’ve watched way too many Richard Harrison/Godfrey Ho movies.
Eyes that melt, eyes that kill!
Via a nifty article on mind control gimmicks in 80’s TV at the Dinner With Max Jenke blog: What about the supreme hamster? (Thanks to Dave Buscemi)
Unknown Hoods – Part 3
I have three antique sepia-toned photos from Japan featuring ninja and hooded heroes that neither I nor the sellers I liberated them from can identify. Anyone who helps me out will get a giant toad’s worth of gratitude from both … Continued
Unknown Hoods – Part 2
I have three antique sepia-toned photos from Japan featuring ninja and hooded heroes that neither I nor the sellers I liberated them from can identify. Anyone who helps me out will get a giant toad’s worth of gratitude from both … Continued
Unknown Hoods – Part 1
I have three antique sepia-toned photos from Japan featuring ninja and hooded heroes that neither I nor the sellers I liberated them from can identify. Anyone who helps me out will get a giant toad’s worth of gratitude from both … Continued
You KNOW this one is going to be goofy as hell…
OK, so maybe we are in another ninja boom… Mask of the Ninja, Ninja Assassin, Ninja, and coming soon from the minds behind Death Trance is this piece of sublime shinobi-sploitation: Looks like ‘Ninja Gaiden vs. The Loch Ness Monster.’ Sign … Continued
10 Things I love about Isaac Florentine’s NINJA
Tombstone vs. Wyatt Earp. Deep Impact vs. Armageddon. Films rushed out ahead of bigger budgeted studio tentpoles that ended up being better, more satifying and in general more FUN films. Its happened again (albeit a little late in this country) as Isaac … Continued