ZANPEI KUMOTORI
Takao Saito, best known as creator of Golgo 13, was also responsible for two ninja manga: Kage Gari in the 70’s (the Shadow Hunters, which also spawned two films), and Zanpei Kumotori in the 80’s. The latter featured a Connery-esque … Continued
CHALLENGE OF THE LADY NINJA
If you haven’t seen them, don’t dismiss low-brow Thai/HK exploitation flicks like Challenge of the Lady Ninja (aka Chinese Super Ninjas II) or Deadly Life of a Ninja as mere crap. They are BRILLIANT CRAP – utterly BAT-SHIT, full of … Continued
SHINOBI painting
Part of an anonymous package painting for the video game Shinobi.
Perhaps the strangest ninja movie ever made…
While the Sonny Chiba / Japan Action Club TV series is more widely known, it was the really strange 1979/80 film Kage no Gundan: Hattori Hanzo by Eiichi Kudo that started the Shadow Warriors ball rolling. Yeah… strange… a real head … Continued
NINJA KIDS in a clamshell
Via The Scandy Factory: great scan of the VHS clamshell packaging from Ninja Kids – which was an edited-down single film version of the three-part Hong Kong ninja-sploitation epic otherwise known as Ninja Death and most recently Venom of the … Continued
October is MONSTERS AND MASKS MONTH!
In celebration of Halloween, all posts this month feature SCARY SHINOBI, DEMON-MASKED ASSASSINS and NINJA VS. MONSTERS!!! Three to five times a week we’ll be assaulting you with images of swordsmen riding giant toads, shinobi superheroes battling sponge-suit creatures and … Continued
DOKURO NINJA in vinyl
Kaiketsu Lion Maru‘s simple skull-masked ‘shockers’ were absolutely awesome, and I believe for the first time there’s a licensed action figure representing them! This 5″ vinyl boutique figure is from RealxHead / Fewture Models. Jointed arms, rotating hands and head, … Continued
Skull shinobi and Saori’s shorts in LION MARU (part 2)
Yesterday we looked at the early 70’s TV sword-girl standout Saori – whose taut legs and exposed athletic thighs were obviously secondary concerns to her self-accomplished heroism, kick-ass attitude in a man’s world, and defiance to the salacious agendas of … Continued
Skull shinobi and Saori’s shorts in LION MARU (part 1)
As a post Halloween bonus, we’re going to honor the Latin world’s Dia de los Muertos with a look at some skull-masked shinobi. MONSTERS AND MASKS month has been sadly bereft of our beloved Sword Girls, too, so we’ll wrap … Continued