Croatian Clamshells
A reader recently sent me these VHS shell inserts from Croatian market ninja releases. Click to enlarge the glory of the good bad art…
Anyone? ANYONE???
The Ninja Murders? Yeah, I never heard of it either… Sadly, this is not a mis-cast adaptation of Andrew B. Suhrer’s book of the same name that explores assassinations in the Japanese feudal era. Rather it’s a 1993 ‘true-crime’ TV movie, … Continued
Happy AMERICAN NINJA Day!
There’s no better way to celebrate the birth of the USA than by looking back at a low-budget exploitation flick based on a Japanese martial art, produced by Israelis, shot in the Philippines. READ ON, FELLOW PATRIOTS: The seminal film … Continued
Revenge of THE DOMINATION
Last week a horror movie label called Scream Factory released Ninja III: The Domination on Bluray and DVD. Just going to let that statement slow burn for a second… Not a label with a large martial arts back catalog, not … Continued
It’s a sword. Hold it like one, dammit!
I just adore this article by my pal Maria Alexander — “Why I Hate (Most) Photos and Drawings of Women with Swords.” Read it. RIGHT NOW. I’ll wait. There are dozens of tumblrs out there dedicated to babes-n-blades, and they … Continued
Happy 4th Anniversay, Darlings…
Every year we celebrate the site’s birthday by reposting the very first thing we ever did — a look at vintage press still from Akai Kageboshi. AKAI KAGEBOSHI – the other ‘red shadow’ (originally published June 7, 2009) Can a … Continued
Aint no Ninja in this Dragon’s Den!
[Sing that title like an old blues number] Back in the craze daze, we were all victims of “Shinobified” movie titles — kung-fu flicks, often from the 70’s, with no ninja content whatsoever shamelessly retitled to the likes of Fist of Ninja, Dragon … Continued
Review: NINJA: THE MISSION FORCE — parody executed with more skill than its source
What do you do with a half-dozen mail-order ninja suits, some black eye-liner, a few friends willing to tumble around a public park like idiots and a heap of public domain films? Well, in the 80s if you were Godfrey … Continued
VN REVISITED: A ‘Tonbei the Mist’ Primer
I reposted this fantastic publicity still of Maki Fuyukichi as Tonbei the Mist from Greg Newman over at the Facebook “The Samurai” Group. Got a lot of attention, so I thought this would be a good time to revisit a … Continued
FIVE ELEMENT NINJA African marketing
This amazingness from the mobile “cinemas” of Ghana, Africa is on eBay right now, for a steal, too! Plenty more goodness here, as well!