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12 Jun 2017

50 years of the 00-Shadow

by Keith Rainville | posted in: 1 - Film and TV, 3 - Toys and Merch | 2

The Samurai, starting in 1964, may have been Japan’s first shinobi export to the English-speaking world, but that phenom was contained strictly to Australia. So for the rest of us, the first ninja we saw on any screen were flanking … Continued

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