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Enter the Revenge of the Blurays
18 Jun 2015

Enter the Revenge of the Blurays

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

We finally have the original Cannon Films Sho Kosugi ‘ninja trilogy’ on good home video formats! Sure, its a couple decades later than it should have happened, and at a time when the public is giving up physical media in droves, … Continued

Enter the Ninja, Michael Dudikoff, REVENGE OF THE NINJA, Sho Kosugi
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
31 Mar 2013

AMERICAN NINJA rack toys

by Keith Rainville | posted in: 3 - Toys and Merch | 4

Little known fact – American Ninja is the only 80s boom film to have properly licensed mass-produced merchandise. These grocery store / pharmacy register tchotchkes were obviously for kids, despite being branded with the an R-rated film’s imagery. A “two-penny-toy” … Continued

AMERICAN NINJA, generic merch, Generic toys, Michael Dudikoff
17 Jul 2011

AMERICAN NINJA II video store standee

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

This 14″ cardstock counter display was given out to video stores to push the release of American Ninja II: The Confrontation in May of 1987. The center unfolds to reveal this illustration, which is unique to this piece – it … Continued

AMERICAN NINJA, Michael Dudikoff
31 Aug 2010

An Open Letter to David Bradley

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

Dear David, They’ll call you the lesser American Ninja. They’ll say you weren’t even a replacement as much as you were a placeholder, a mask-filler brought in while Michael Dudikoff was auditioning for soap opera guest spots. They’ll say you … Continued

AMERICAN NINJA, David Bradley, Michael Dudikoff, Steve James
29 Aug 2010

AMERICAN NINJA: Selective memory helps

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

25 years ago this weekend, Tim March, my brother Seth and I were dropped off at a theater in Worcester, Massachusetts for an afternoon matinee of American Ninja. The ‘craze’ was actually in the process of ‘jumping the shark,’ Tim … Continued

AMERICAN NINJA, Michael Dudikoff, Sam Firstenberg, Tadashi Yamashita

Welcome to VINTAGE NINJA — dedicated to old ninja movies from Japan’s 60s boom to the 80s American exploitation craze and beyond, with a ton of vintage toys, comics, and sharp pointy stuff thrown in for good measure.

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