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23 Apr 2010

Five Days of FIVE ELEMENT NINJAS: Day 5

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

So Five Element Ninjas… is this martial arts alchemy experiment the nexus of one craze on the outs and another on the rise, or is it just an embarrassing oddity shunned like a red-headed stepchild by snobs of two different … Continued

Five Element Ninjas, Hong Kong, Shaw Bros.
22 Apr 2010

Five Days of FIVE ELEMENT NINJAS: Day 4

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

BACK IN BLACK! Gold, brown, blue, red and beige schemes aside, FEN also has a damn nifty commando raid where a platoon of black-clad ninja adeptly bypass the kung-fu compound’s ample defenses and lay waste to the remaining students. It … Continued

Five Element Ninjas, Hong Kong, Shaw Bros.
21 Apr 2010

Five Days of FIVE ELEMENT NINJAS: Day 3

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

By day three, most of you should be rushing out to some store to buy FEN, and won’t be reading this. However, for you stalwarts still clinging to obsolete concepts like credibility and logic in your movies, let me assault … Continued

Five Element Ninjas, Hong Kong, Shw Bros.
20 Apr 2010

Five Days of FIVE ELEMENT NINJAS: Day 2

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

Okay, so our noble defenders of traditional kung-fu (and kung-fu box office) have accepted the challenge of the invading Japanese genre- uh, army, and away we go – down the yellow brick path of vengeance to… THE GOLD NINJA! FEN … Continued

Five Element Ninjas, Hong Kong, Shaw Bros.
19 Apr 2010

Five Days of FIVE ELEMENT NINJAS: Day 1

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

1982 – Hey, you… Kung-Fu Genre. Yeah you, the dominant force in martial arts exploitation in the 70’s. Y’know that flesh wound you got last year from that Golan-Globus ninja flick? Yeah, the one next the scar you got in … Continued

Five Element Ninjas, Hong Kong, Shaw Bros.

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