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6 Oct 2011

NINJA WARS press book

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

It was one of the few Japanese ninja movies that actually made it to U.S. shores in the 80s, and what a weird choice. Full of fantasy special effects, bizarre super powered evil monks, sadism and rape and decapitated girls … Continued

Henry Sanada, Japan Action Club, Monsters and Masks 2011, Ninja Wars, Sonny Chiba
12 May 2010

NINJAS AND DRAGONS

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

Ninjas and Dragons is a weird little movie. You watch it and wonder if you’ve seen it before, what decade in came out in, how it had slipped through the cracks back in the day. Largely “inspired by” more familiar … Continued

Japan Action Club
25 Feb 2010

Shogun’s Sanada

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

I’m not the hugest fan of the 1980 Japan Action Club vehicle Shogun’s Ninja (Ninja bugeicho momochi sandayu), but you have to admire the insane stuntwork, and it’s another movie with Henry Sanada fighting with twin short swords – which I … Continued

Henry Sanada, Japan Action Club
9 Nov 2009

Perhaps the strangest ninja movie ever made…

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

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

Hattori Hanzo, Japan Action Club
17 Jun 2009

The kunoichi of KAGE

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

Chisa Yokoyama and Airi Yoshihama and nifty in the highly recommended short film KAGE, now available for viewing online. Read about it in here…

Japan Action Club, Kage, Kosugi

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