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15 Sep 2013

Croatian Clamshells

by Keith Rainville | posted in: 1 - Film and TV | 0

A reader recently sent me these VHS shell inserts from Croatian market ninja releases. Click to enlarge the glory of the good bad art…

VHS art
31 Aug 2013

Anyone? ANYONE???

by Keith Rainville | posted in: 1 - Film and TV | 0

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

THE NINJA MURDERS
4 Jul 2013

Happy AMERICAN NINJA Day!

by Keith Rainville | posted in: 1 - Film and TV | 0

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

AMERICAN NINJA, Michael Dudikoff
22 Jun 2013

Revenge of THE DOMINATION

by Keith Rainville | posted in: 1 - Film and TV | 0

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

Canon Fillms, Ninja III: The Domination, Sam Firstenberg, Sho Kosugi, Steve Lambert
14 Jun 2013

It’s a sword. Hold it like one, dammit!

by Keith Rainville | posted in: 1 - Film and TV, 6 - History and Martial Arts | 0

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

Maria Alexander
7 Jun 2013

Happy 4th Anniversay, Darlings…

by Keith Rainville | posted in: 1 - Film and TV | 1

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

AKAI KAGEBOSHI, Hashizo Okawa, Red Shadow
31 May 2013

Aint no Ninja in this Dragon’s Den!

by Keith Rainville | posted in: 1 - Film and TV | 0

[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

Conan Lee, Eliminators, Henry Sanada, Ninja in the Dragon's Den
16 May 2013

Review: NINJA: THE MISSION FORCE — parody executed with more skill than its source

by Keith Rainville | posted in: 1 - Film and TV | 0

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

Godfrey Ho, Ninja: The Mission Force
5 May 2013

VN REVISITED: A ‘Tonbei the Mist’ Primer

by Keith Rainville | posted in: 1 - Film and TV | 4

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

Maki Fuyukichi, Onmitsu Kenshin, The Samurai, Tonbei
27 Apr 2013

FIVE ELEMENT NINJA African marketing

by Keith Rainville | posted in: 1 - Film and TV, 5 - Art and Advertising | 0

This amazingness from the mobile “cinemas” of Ghana, Africa is on eBay right now, for a steal, too! Plenty more goodness here, as well!

Five Element Ninjas, Ghana movie posters

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