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23 Jan 2011

Not Necessarily Ninja – Chapter 1

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

Shinobi-esque jobbers in LAST HURRAH FOR CHIVALRY Ninja, and ninja-like, costuming affords a tremendous advantage to action directors – you can hide the stuntmen very easily. How many times per picture can an anonymous hooded fight double get killed? A … Continued

Last Hurrah for Chivalry, Not Necessarily Ninja, Shaw Bros.
19 Nov 2010

Martial and *marital* arts in HEROES OF THE EAST

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

OK, so we all love martial arts movies, but what does that term actually mean? Are what we think of as martial arts films actually about martial arts? A lot of martial artists aren’t genre film fans themselves, gratuitous fights … Continued

Gordon Liu, Heroes of the East, Shaolin Challenges Ninja, Shaw Bros., Yasu Kurata, Yuka Mizuno
4 Sep 2010

SUPER NINJAS (aka Five Element Ninjas) poster

by Keith Rainville | posted in: 1 - Film and TV, 5 - Art and Advertising | 0

Via the ever superb Wrong Side of the Art: I find this English language market distro poster for Five Element Ninjas perplexing. The art makes this look like a team-up film, like a shinobified version of Force Five or something. … Continued

Five Element Ninjas, Shaw Bros.
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.
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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