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
Great stuff over at Ultra Guro
I’ve been a longtime fan of the Italian photo blogs Blonde Zombies and Asian Drillpop, and now the same publisher has unleashed a new stream – Ultra Guro, which seems Japanese and vintage HK themed. Some nifty sword girl imagery … Continued
More BAND OF ASSASSINS
Missed this one in our February post on Shinobi no Mono poster art. God I love that post-tinted color!
Great FUJIMARU stuff…
…over at Shonen King’s superb Black Sun blog! We did a series of posts on a Fujimaru book-n-record set back in July of 09, and now SK has a pile great stills from the B&W anime. I absolutely adore the … Continued
Shogun’s Sanada
I’m not the hugest fan of the 1980 Japan Action Club vehicle Shogun’s Ninja (Ninja bugeicho momochi sandayu), but you have to admire the insane stuntwork, and it’s another movie with Henry Sanada fighting with twin short swords – which I … Continued