Coming soon…
Falling behind where I wanted to be with various B&W Japanese film posts, but GREAT stuff to come! Here’s a preview of the post-a-day topic for next week in the meantime: And yes, there will be more various stuff this … Continued
Ninja Warfare in YAGYU BUGEICHO – Part 2
Last time we set things up for the Yagyu’s apocalyptic assault on a impregnable fortress. Yagyu Bugeicho: Katame no Ninja is an all too rare shinobi WAR movie. Unleash the dogs… Not exactly your feel-good action-comedy buddy pic here… Katame … Continued
Ninja warfare in YAGYU BUGEICHO – Part 1
Spent a lot of time on American and Chinese posters and packaging lately, so let’s take things back to where it really all starts with this site – 60’s Japanese films. This will be the first of several posts on … Continued
Joseph Lai shlock-o-rama
We started the week with the high-end of the 80’s craze, let’s wrap it up on the low end… There are some great scans of not-so-great posters from REALLY not great in the least movies over at Wrong Side of the … Continued
Nintendo ninja and muscle madness!
Nifty post by Andrew Case over at Dreams of the Red King. A 1989 issue of Nintendo Power magazine — LAME ninja on cover, nice art for interior spreads. OK people, answer me this: why are so many painted and … Continued
The Illustrated Sho Kosugi
In the 80’s, Sho Kosugi posed for over 73 billion photos in full night gear, laden with weapons, in magazines like Black Belt, Ninja, even Karate Illustrated and Inside Kung Fu. Yet when it comes to movie and video game ad … Continued
Some film posters on a Friday
Let’s look at some quirky foreign movie posters, testament to the global nature of the 80’s craze. Coming in the next day or so, more weird movie posters, this time featuring illustrations and paintings of Sho Kosugi (regardless of wether … Continued
A Force of… FUN???
I highly recommend tooling around the excellent Wrong Side of the Art poster archive, particularly the martial arts section. You come across oldies but goodies like this Chuck Norris classic: NOW, from the same site, take a look at this … Continued
Press stills from NINJUTSU GOZEN-JIAI
The 1957 Toei FX romp Ninjutsu Gozen-Jiai (aka Torawakamaru, the Koga Ninja) is the perfect example of the pre-60’s craze kid’s ninja film: mischievous wizard hero, evil sorcerer, spirit-creatures fighting in the clouds, etc and so forth. Before the real … Continued
To hell with NA, go S-n-M!
NINJA ASSASSIN… It goes wrong in the very title. “Assassin.” Can we get past this notion of the ninja cult of hired assassins? Some historians question if there ever was a documented assassination in Japan reliably credited to a shinobi … Continued