ninja iii : the domination
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“ninja iii: the domination” is streaming on starz and available on blu - ray from shout factory .
ninja iii: the domination is rated r for violence and language. the running time is 1 hour and 32 minutes .
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i haven' t seen ninja iii: the domination, but it has possibly the best name of any movie ever. and for that it deserves recognition .
ninja iii: the domination is a 1984 american action movie about a woman (lucinda dickey) who becomes possessd by the spirit of an evil ninja. the film costarred sho kisugi and jordan bennett. it was the third
…and it being horror - themed halloween month, we’d be remiss in not throwing a shout out to what was the most ambitious of the 80’s canon flicks, ninja iii: the domination .
people don’t give ninja iii: the domination enough credit. it’s a smart as hell release, blending two familiar genre, with ghostly possession and martial arts fights in equal amounts .
probably the greatest thing about ninja iii: the domination is no matter what you’re in the mood for, you’re going to get it. the movie covers almost every genre imaginable, and sometimes not on purpose .
barbarella 2? lady beastmaster? no, it' s not some michael ironside vs. the amazonian excalibur mash - up either. it' s simply an oversexed italian poster for ninja iii: the domination !
thankfully there are “other” ways to watch this. but if gymkata can get a release, why not ninja iii ?
there are actually two other ninja films in this series, enter the ninja and revenge of the ninja, though none of the 3 have related storylines .
welcome to “bad movie night, ” a biweekly feature in which we sift through the remains of bad movies of all stripes: the obscure and hilarious, the bloated and beautiful, the popular and painful. this week we look at one of the most inexplicable movies of the 1980s (no small feat, that), ninja iii: the domination .
well, ignoring the part about how the movie gave me nightmares, imdb lists ninja iii as horror. it does not list predators (or predator) as horror .
welcome to the 83rd episode of the cinefessions podcast! this week, branden, ashe, and marc continue the scream factory arc with a review of ninja iii: the domination (1984). you can help us decide which film we’ll review in week five of this arc! just answer the poll question to your right in the sidebar, …
also like revenge of the ninja it' s also awesome. i love sho kasugi ninja movies .
it' s quite a thing,' ninja iii,' less a movie and more a buzzfeed list of 23 things only' 80s kids will remember .
but the more of the film that i watched, the more i realized that if i was going to have to unknowingly watch a film that wasn’t american ninja iii, at least i was lucky enough to have this truly bizarre ninja film as its stand in. besides, how often do you get the chance to watch a movie that channels the exorcist, ghostbusters and footloose all in one beautifully wrapped ninja package. as an extra added bonus ninja iii: the domination was directed by sam firstenberg. who also directed the first two american ninja films, and as an extra added bonus of pop culture knowledge, and directed breakin’ 2: electric boogaloo as well. your mind is blown, isn’t it ?
ninja iii wasn’t actually a sequel to enter the ninja and revenge of the ninja, but it certainly tied - up the triumvirate of movies that really cemented ninja films as the dominant martial arts exploitation sub - genre of the decade. sadly, it was never topped in budget, artistic ambition or general fimmaking effort during the craze. the films got cheaper and cheesier until the genre was all but surrendered to turtles and kicking kiddies .
i know i am alittle late on posting this. as for this review is over a year old at this point. i was the biggest ninja fan as a kid. i grew up in the 80’s so with the invention of the vcr found a world of ninja movies in the early 80’s. enter the ninja was the first american ninja type movie. . it is still freaking awesome! so flash forward to today. i am sitting at work and thinking about ninja iii the domination for some strange reason. there was something i guess that still bugging me to this day. why was it called ninja iii? from what i can tell there was never a ninja 1 or 2? i just can’t figure it out. was it because there were 3 um ish ninjas in the movie? because the chick really wasn’t a ninja. . she was just possessed by a ninja. . ok i am glad i have gotten that off my chest .
this japanese market poster for ninja iii: the domination “heroes” sho kosugi amidst a jumbled mess of images from the film. while not the greatest of layouts, a poster like this hangs in a theater lobby as an enticer for things to come. the audience is there, captive, milling about or waiting in line for snacks, so you have them on the hook already, you can get away with this sort of density .
ninja iii: the domination is a movie that can’t be reviewed, it can only be experienced. preferably in a large group and with copious amounts of alcohol. from the opening moments of a ninja exciting his cave like cave at dawn to hunt and kill a man trying to put in a quick 9 - holes before work you know you are in for something special. sure it is never explained just why the ninja felt the need to kill the man, his wife and 30, 000 guards, nor is it explained how the ninja has super strength, you simply have to just go along with it .
then, when i thought ninja iii: the domination couldn’t amaze me any more, it pulls out the big guns. christie wipes out a platoon of cops, goes head to head with her nemesis yamada, and when he (yamada) discovers the ninja he has been chasing has inhabited the body of a woman he lets her go. he then concocts an ingenious plan to meet christie at an abandoned temple in the hills. there yamada forces the black ninja’s soul out of christie’s body and back into his own. but what yamada doesn’t know is that the black ninja has the power to turn the monks who live in the abandoned temple into, i can’t believe i am saying this, zombie ninjas !
sure enough the wrong print had been sent to the theater, a print for a film that had been released a full five years earlier. oh i was angry at first. how could a projectionist not have known the difference between ninja iii and american ninja 3? it should be perfectly obvious, right? right? !
here’s where that whole idea started, 1981’s genre - launching enter the ninja .
greater than the conundrum that is ninja iii: the domination, is probably the nostalgia that surrounds it. it is a reminder of the days when you would pick a movie at a video store based on the box art and description. you may be stuck watching it at a sleepover, and there was no chance of turning it off because it cost $ 3 to rent it. it is a reminder of the days when you simply couldn’t move on to the next film streaming. it is a reminder of when you just had to give in and commit yourself to something and hope for the best. if you remember ninja iii or even just want to relive those days, then grab a v8 and some special friends and give it a watch .
the possessed christie hunts down and kills the police officers responsible for killing the evil ninja. her boyfriend billy (bennett), who is one of the officers involved, becomes suspicious and joins forces with a good ninja (kisugi) to defeat the evil ninja' s spirit .
it’s also just great to finally see this film in such a pristine, even enhanced state. the mgm cable channel print of ninja iii wasn’t nearly as detail - revealling as this new transfer, especially viewed on blu. i noticed for the first time lucinda dickey is wearing a really bad wig in all the mountain location scenes, which were evidently shot after she started filming breakin’ with a shorter, more pat benatar - inspired haircut. and yes, she did ninja iii first, a revelation from the commentary .
an evil ninja attacks a golf course, killing many people. the police arrive, and the ninja attacks and kills many of them. eventually the police manage to outnumber and surround the ninja, shooting him. the dying ninja escapes and runs into telephone linesman christie (dickey), and puts the evil eye on her. christie takes the ninja' s sword. later, christie is in her apartment when her arcade machine comes to life and hypnotizes her. the sword flies out of the closet and into christie' s hands, and she becomes possessed by the evil ninja' s spirit .
the delicious desert that was domination was part kosugi ninja vehicle, part exorcist, with a little flashdance thrown in and a thick, sugary frosting of 80’s cop revenge cliches topping it all. sho kosugi wore the jubei eyepatch, lucinda dickey avoided another breakin ‘ sequel and got to do some kooky effects scenes, and there were possibly the best staged ninja battle scenes we saw before getting ahold of the real stuff from japan later on .
they were liberated to try something different with the ninja construct and go in more of a hybridized direction. with allusions to prior ninja movies, horror tropes, and even dickey’s involvement with the
there are 12 or so warriors in this painting for the deadly silver ninja, which is actually more than the ninja scroll poster. the artist, however, uses foreground and background to center your attention on three of those warriors – the hero, the hot chick and the exotic masked villain .
in the cemetery scene, the evil ninja can be seen sliding down a rope from the trees. she is wearing heavy gloves to protect from rope burn, then the gloves disappear .
even with ninja assassin making some waves and the g. i. joe films putting big - budget ninja action in theaters, no one before scream factory saw the audience potential for the now 30 year old material. kudos to them .
a ninja (david chung) goes on a rampage at a golf course .
scream’s release is a stunning transfer of from what i recall is a complete print. the picture is just gorgeous on bluray (the stills here don’t do it justice), and the accompanying dvd copy is nothing to sneeze at either. i’d call it miles above any previous release, but that’s not saying much as the last time ninja iii was on home video it was a full - frame vhs .
the body of a sexy aerobics instructor is invaded by the evil spirit of a dying ninja. at first, changes in her behavior is limited to having strange interactions with an arcade game, doing sexy things with v8 juice, and being attracted to an unusually hairy police officer. but soon enough, she' s systematically killing, ninja - style, the officers responsible for the ninja' s death, and can only be stopped by another ninja !
the american ninja films follow a simple, hard working soldier (dudikoff) who just so happens to be the only american ninja, like, ever. you would think this would go to his head, but no. he keeps his head down and follows orders until invariably an evil villain set on world domination kidnaps his lady friend and unleashes an army of ninjas to kill our intrepid hero. i’m fairly certain american ninja 2 differs only in that his best friend is kidnapped, as well as a host of marines, instead of his girlfriend. also the evil ninjas are color coded .
an evil ninja attempts to avenge his death from beyond the grave, by possessing an innocent woman' s body .
i find myself unable to trust anyone who isn’t pro - ninja. that’s like saying you’re anti - the godfather .
japanese posters for an american ninja... gotta wonder what the home crowd thought of these weird yank flicks .
why are there no current, big budget ninja movies? i’m surprised one hasn’t been released in the past few years; or am i missing something? someone like chris evans, ryan gosling or keanu reeves is the new american ninja .
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the body of a sexy aerobics instructor is invaded by the evil spirit of a dying ninja. at first, changes in her behavior is limited to having strange interactions with an arcade game, doing sexy things with v8 juice, and being attracted to an unusually hairy police officer. but soon enough, she' s systematically killing, ninja - style, the officers responsible for the ninja' s death, and can only be stopped by another ninja! written by brian j. wright
you see once the black ninja (chung) is gunned down by a horde of cops, he vanishes into the ground, only to escape where he runs into christie. christie, shocked at finding a ninja, then dances with him for a few moments, more then long enough for the dying ninja to impart his soul into her. and this is when the film gets really weird .
after the evil ninja comes out of the lake he is soaked from head to toe. in the next shot, he continues to fight police officers and is bone dry. see more »
read great blog reviews at internal bleeding and where the long tail ends, and see and read all sorts of keen kosugi - ness at the excellent fan site sho kosugi: the ninja .
the 80’s ninja boom was represented piss - poorly in the dvd era (which yes, i’m referring to in the past tense), but it seems no film was relegated to limbo longer than this third chapter in the kosugi / canon partnership. there were mostly full - frame and “open matte” releases of revenge of the ninja, rage of honor, the american ninja flicks, dumped out with little effort and even less fanfare, but for who - knows - why the dom never made even that cut .
but there’s more to it. golan - globus movies often fuck up the thing it never even occurs to other movies to not get right – like establishing shots, basic editing, and dialogue recording, all of which are weirdly inept. like much of their work, ninja iii is permeated by a general feeling of this is how you make a movie, right ?
composition can also save a much simpler layout. take a look at the original u. s. market poster for american ninja :
the lengthy opening act is amazing, but the rest of the film isn' t as engaging .
anyway, ninja iii. we begin with two startlingly incongruent scenarios, juxtaposed nonetheless: a ninja in a cave, digging out throwing stars, arrows, and swords, intercut with some dude going golfing. their paths cross when our ninja shows up to crush a golf ball in his hand before murdering everyone on the green. it’s one of funniest action scenes you’ve ever seen (unintentionally, but still), with hilariously overdone foley work and fight choreography so stiff it makes elaine benes look like ginger rogers. and it seems our ninja is an indestructible one, so the sequence goes on for a realllly long time, with one death blow after another making no difference, until he’s finally shot dead by several cops. or is he ?
i’m betting if storm shadow and snake eyes get enough of a reaction in the gi joe movie that we’ll start seeing ninja movies again. and despite his diminutive size, ray park really does seem like he would make a perfect american ninja .
welcome to vintage ninja - - dedicated to old ninja movies from japan' s 60' s 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 .
: a utilities worker and part - time aerobics instructor encounters a dying ninja and is entrusted with his sword. however, the weapon is a conduit through which the ninja’s evil spirit takes possession of her body and mind. based on what i can only assume was a true story .
seriously, what the hell am i looking at here? ninja scroll is certified classic, and anime movie posters don’t have to rely on photographic assets as their basis – the sky is the limit to the creativity of the illustrators involved. yet what we have here is an absolute abortion .
painted poster (later the vhs box art) to the tadashi yamashita vehicle the shinobi ninja, easily the most redundant title of the 80' s. it' s a japan / hong kong co - pro, but that painting is of a very american ninja suit, right out of your average karate depot. anyone know what language this is or market it' s for? polish? pakistani ?
after a peace loving japanese immigrant and his family become victims of a crime syndicate, a master ninja emerges .
nowhere near as effective, as the artist possibly wasn’t up to the task of portraying richard harrison more face - on. red ninja on a tight - rope isn’t nearly as effective as big - ass - ninja - head, but the swirling dragon just screams ‘martial arts movie’ so this ends up working in spite of its inferior execution .
). action and adventure films were (and continue to be) the genres least resistant to retreads, and low - budget franchises were no more insulated from the phenomenon than their big - budget brethren. fortunately, the “ninja trilogy” films from the golan - globus era of cannon films handled this in the best way possible, by keeping a few recognizable elements (e. g. the ninja archetype and sho kosugi) and turning over the characters, stories, and settings. the results throughout this trilogy were stylistically distinct, tonally all over the map, and as
this is the one the fans have been waiting for. just hope the blu - ray version is somewhat decent .
and it’s a ninja movie, there’s especially no excuse for this when you have sooooooo iconic a central character type .
not hard to do. you can see this is a ninja film from 50 yards away, and it works .
mafia vs. ninja is hardly the classic ninja scroll is, being a heart - worn - on - its - sleeve exploitation flick. but what the marketers of exploitation films know is how to draw the eye and deilver a quick, effective image that get’s someone to cue - up at a theater or grab a rental off a video store shelf .
although i am, along with your father, a card carrying member of the anti - ninja / pro - alien brigade, i enjoyed this review immensely .
two things going on here – cash in on the big - ass - ninja - head, and feature your expensive imported star, in this case franco nero .
one of the greatest ninja movies ever! me and my older brother had ninja fever back in these days, pillow cases and towels tied around our heads, anything that resembled a sword, mom even found us some, what seemed to be, authentic ninja stars! til this day we’re still curious as to where they disappeared to that first time we threw them! .. oh well, still a classic !
) plays christie, a telephone company technician / aerobics instructor who stumbles upon the dying body of an evil ninja. he hands her the magic sword he used to hack up a bunch of golfers before being shot by police. no sooner does she have the sword than strange things begin to happen. christie abruptly displays impressive fighting skills. the sword takes itself out of the closet and floats to her. she develops an intense, unexplainable hatred for police officers. (this is especially inconvenient after she begins dating one .) yes, the evil ninja' s spirit has possessed her body. a second ninja soon arrives on the scene to chase it from inside her .
great use of the flag, simple fight scene with two figures. all fine. but the ninja is sort of hidden here and it’s a very stiff arrangement. clearly a studio posing and not a fight scene .
but what really sets the film apart from your standard ninja fare is the utterly insane possession angle. curious at christie’s radically shifting personality, her impossibly hairy boyfriend billy (jordan bennett) takes her to lo pan (james hong) to try and discover just what is wrong with her. luckily, christie is not a green eyed chinese girl, but a solid gold dancer so he has no interest in her. but he does discover that a ninja is lurking inside of her, and thus quickly dismisses the unlikely couple from his abode before he angers the spirit ninja .
he' s the ultimate killer. she' s the perfect weapon. see more »
poor christie keeps having goofy flashbacks to her ninja possessor’s near - death, which lead to her blacking out and avenging his murder. most of the people he sends her after are those cops who filled him with bullets, which is a real unfortunate coincidence for her fella, since this means he’s constantly bringing his girlfriend around his buddies, whose faces trigger the blood lust of the spirit of the ninja who’s possessed her. but hey, every couple has shit to work through. once he figures out what her deal is, he takes her to a wise asian medicine man for an exorcism, but it doesn’t take: “only a ninja can destroy a ninja, ” he’s told. she does the best she can, at one point turning on the radio and trying dance the spirit away, but the sword emerges from the closet and smashes her stereo. (you would too if you heard that song, but i digress. )
this might be my favorite so bad it' s awesome film of all time. like many pre - teen children of the 80' s repeat viewing of revenge of ninja spawned a ninja phase of my childhood. man i thought sho k. was badass back then. jet li could wup him with both legs in a cast! this movie has insane crossovers that include flashdance, the exorcist and the lee van cleef ninja tv show. ugh. but as a friend of mine says anyone can get a good movie made it takes true genius to make a film that starts with a ninja surviving 17 shotgun blasts long enough to take over the body of arobics instructor to get revenge. wow. while previous commentors have metioned the sword flying out of the closet on the string no one has yet metioned the powerful love scene. where the sexy leading man cop takes off his shirt to reveal a mane of backhair. the fun never ends. rent this! !! !! !
christie (lucinda dickey), under the influence of a dead ninja, is laser - scanned by an arcade game. i’m sorry, i don’t know what i just wrote either .
the american ninja franchise has a very special place in my heart. a place that you may not, and cannot, sully no matter how hard you might try. anna hasn’t even seen this place because she is crafty and i have been unable to trick her into watching any of the films. but what are american ninja films? i’m so glad you asked .
the aisle seat critic, mike mcgranaghan, is a member of the online film critics society .
on a remote caribbean island, army ranger joe armstrong investigates the disappearance of several marines, which leads him to the lion, a super - criminal who has kidnapped a local scientist and mass - produced an army of mutant ninja warriors .
let’s look at some quirky foreign movie posters, testament to the global nature of the 80’s craze .
and more than that, their schlock also shares a keen lack of self - awareness – a distinct feeling that no one, at any level, had any idea how badly they were failing. so in that exorcism scene, as lucinda dickey goes full - on linda blair, growling in japanese, her shabbily - substituted dummy pulling full 360 flips, shouting “you cannot stop me, i am a ninja, ” what’s most striking is that they really seemed to think they were terrifying us. they have no idea this is funny. but ninja iii has more laughs than the last four farrelly brothers movies combined, and maybe that’s not what they were aiming for, but that’s what they achieved. who am i to begrudge them their success ?
seriously. eight to ten thousand of you read this site every month, you’re all ninja freaks and you’ve all been a pissed off as i am that the 80s craze films never got the deluxe send - up. now that one has, we need to mobilize, buy the hell out of it and show the other labels what they’ve been missing out on .
here, an artist uses the limitless opportunity illustration affords to pose and arrange subjects to create a vastly superior version of essentially the same scene. average joe american shinobi still reads as an exciting yank action star, but at the same time the ninja is a lot more prevalent. you’ve got movement, dynamic tension, intersecting lines. this is a fight scene !
a one - man army comes to the rescue of the united states when a spy attempts an invasion .
might be the most “cannon” of cannon films’ 1980s output, and this special blend is one of the big reasons its popularity persists three decades later. many will dock it points for its dated visual effects and inconsistent cohesion to the possession plot - line (when christie pours v8 down her cleavage and has the hots for a dude with terrible back - hair, is it * the ninja spirit * doing these things ?) but doing so misses the point. at its core ,
thankfully i had an ace up my sleeve, for you see my elder sister worked at the very movie theater that would be showing american ninja 3, and she didn’t care what i watched. sure she thought it looked stupid (an opinion i chalk up to her being a girl) but she wasn’t going to waste any effort in stopping me from watching the film. so there i was, at the first showing on opening day, totally excited to watch the latest, greatest american ninja film. but then something totally unexpected happened .
on the soundtrack, despite the fact that those fighting are clearly missing their punches. a more apt descriptor for
meanwhile in japan, the rebooted kamui hits anime. love the weird dimensions of this piece, great layout .
what christie (lucinda dickey, star of breakin’ and breakin’ 2: electric boogaloo) doesn’t know is that we have secretly replaced her subconscious with an evil ninja (david chung). oh sure, during the day she will go about her business of teaching aerobics and dating swarthy policemen none the wiser to what lurks inside her. but at night she turns into a soulless killing machine. can anyone stop her? and can the one eyed ninja yamada (shô kosugi) save her from herself ?
is there anything cooler then a ninja? fun fact, while growing up i used to wish for the day a ninja would be in the transformers cartoon, and while the transformers / gi joe crossover comic satiated this desire somewhat, it really wasn’t what i was after. just like when spider - man guest starred, these shameless cross overs diluted both of these great franchises rather then amplifying them. and while storm shadow and snake eyes were great and all, they were no substitute for michael dudikoff .
after just completing his training at a ninja school, an army vet travels to the phillippines and finds himself battling a land grabber who wants his war - buddy' s property. he must also... see full summary »
now imparted with the strength and evilness of a super strong evil ninja, christie begins to date hirsute men that she hates, beats up a roving rape gang and even begins to systematically kill the individual cops who were responsible for the ninjas death. whether it be in a hot tub or at a funeral, she is a one woman killing machine .
somehow combines a now unstoppable (and un - stealthy) ninja killing machine with an exorcism motif lifted straight from horror, and gratuitous aerobics sequences (showing off the talents of lucinda dickey, flush from recent success in breakin') .
this entry was posted in theater psychotronic and tagged 80' s, action, aerobics, cannon, horror, james hong, lucinda dickey, ninja, possession, shô kosugi .
a struggling young jazz dancer meets up with two break - dancers. together they become the sensation of the street crowds .
by the way, the spirit of the ninja has also possessed her apartment (these things just can’t respect boundaries), and the household objects within it: her fridge, her phone, even a stand - up arcade game, which spews fog and shoots laser lights at her. so in the afterglow of her vegetable juice - soaked tryst with officer sleazebag, a windstorm takes over her apartment. she goes to the closet, picks up his sword, and… well, if i told you they altered her eye make - up, would it surprise you ?
all the great elements of cannon films in one masterpiece. you get the star of breakin' 2 electric bugaloo fighting ninjas .
is a little light on quality action but it’s an easy thing to overlook against the backdrop of a ridiculous plot, wacky effects, and several deloreans’ worth of 1980s film tropes. tonally, it’s a strange concluding chapter in cannon films’ unofficial ninja trilogy, but i love it with the emotional warmth normally reserved for a cute dog or a boglin still in the box. recommended .
the big extra on the new release is a commentary track with director sam firstenberg and stunt coordinator steve lambert, which at times is just superb, but at others suffers a bit (for our purposes) from being hosted by a horror guy and aimed at other horror guys. a discussion of kosugi’s eyepatch never touches on the traditional portrayals of jubei yagyu nor sho kosugi’s connection to sonny chiba and the japan action club. we’re ninja geeks, we want to hear that stuff, even if it’s solely prompted by the moderator .
i can' t believe you reviewed this movie. i would have been about 11 - years old when this movie hit the theaters. my mom took me to see it. that opening had been the most bad - ass thing i ever saw and i told everyone i knew about it. i also believed that line used in the trailer ,
only a ninja can destroy a ninja .
i thought it was fact. surely no other form of martial arts could compete with ninjutsu. didn' t they see this movie after all? there was no question in my young mind. i tried to hunt down this movie before only to find it had never been released onto dvd. glad it' s finally made its way, even if it' s a little late for the 80' s nostalgia bandwagon. someone posted it on youtube sometime ago, i don' t know if it' s still there, but i had to settle for that. the movie hasn' t aged well and is pretty cheesy. of course, it was in its day too. even the younger me felt the ending was just getting to over the top. didn' t the bad ninja corkscrew himself into the ground and cause an earthquake ?
the kuji - kiri are the ninja' s nine levels of power. they are 1. rin - strength of mind and body. 2. kyo - direction of energy. 3. toh - harmony with the universe. 4. sha - healing of self and others. 5. kai - premonition of danger. 6. jin - knowing the thoughts of others. 7. retsu - mastery of time and space. 8. zai - control of the elements of nature. and 9. zen - enlightenment. see more »
the purpose of this poster is to relate the hero shot of kosugi (in a jubei yagyu - like get - up that would be familiar to japanese audiences) to the images of the clearly american film. they’re showing as much of the hollywood stunts, effects and production values as they can, peppered with an american white girl .
buzzing comedies such as the spy who dumped me await you in our summer movie guide. check in for all the info you need .
also, i took a gaggle of screen shots from this movie. i just may post the entire gallery for all the world to enjoy .
some will succumb to the nightmare. others will finally wake up. watch the teaser trailer for # suspiria, in theaters november 2. urltoken
the plot builds to a dramatic – and dramatically wild – finale that mixes martial arts extravaganza with supernatural thriller. you' ve got to see it to believe it. perhaps the best way to describe the pleasure of
not a label with a large martial arts back catalog, not an asian cinema - friendly label addressing the east’s influence on the west, but a horror label clinging to the dom ‘s kinship to the exorcist and poltergeist. scream factory was nearly apologetic on social media to its black t - shirt clad fangoria / chiller crowd for pushing the envelope of their mission at hand, but the fan base was surprisingly positive at the announcement. horror blogs reviewed it with the requsite so - bad - its - good slant [ groan ], and younger audiences are for the first time finding this staggering time capsule of 80s trash culture — aerobics - sploitation, chess king sweaters and nagel prints galore. all is good in the world…
review: an evil ninja arrives from japan and wreaks havoc on a golf course until the police pump him full of bullets in a sandtrap. with his last energy, he throws a smoke bomb and under its cover crawls into a phone company van driven by pretty telephone linepers… (more )
) must rescue him. or was that the plot of the fourth film? no matter. now of course i was still to young to watch
the term “so bad it' s good” has often been used to describe a certain type of movie. i don' t think the designation applies to
) agenda, i was left to find another means of watching the film .
i’m certain this took you a long time to write between the countless orgasms .
the age of physical media will have now come and gone with no box sets, no deluxe extras, no mind - blowing deleted scenes or making - of docos (save for a business - oriented piece on how the octagon came together), nor any nostalgic interviews with very alive - and - well stars like sho kosugi and sons. (enter the ninja and pray for death only recently became available either streaming or dvd - on - demand sans deluxe treatment. )
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it' s a childhood favorite, and left me giggling the whole way through .
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anyone who grew up in the 1980' s will remember cannon films. the company made a long string of low - budget movies, most of the exploitation variety. (they occasionally ventured into bigger budgeted entertainment, producing a couple of sly stallone films ,
i just wish it had come 5 - 8 years ago and with interviews of kosugi and dickey, packaged with all of canon’s other ninja movies in black box that lights up from within, spews smoke and plays dramatic theme music while you power - up .
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it didn’t help that i watched the film three times over the weekend either. every time i tried to sit down and write it pulled me right back into its delicious web .
but wait there is more. christie, now struggling to maintain her grip on her soul, must now have a spiritual battle with the ninja (who’s ethereal presence is represented by his floating sword). and how does she defend herself from his advances? she, wait for it, dances. that’s right, as her apartment turns against her, as smoke billows out of her closet and as a katana blade advances upon her christie decides to shake her money maker for all it is worth, knowing full well that a ninja could not resist her streetwise moves. that is until he resists her streetwise moves and fully takes over her body .
a developer tries to bulldoze a community recreation center. the local breakdancers try to stop it .
this film packs so much weird fun. with the exception of its insane book - ends ,
i enjoyed the movie. very well packaged. will buy more from this seller thank you .
coming in the next day or so, more weird movie posters, this time featuring illustrations and paintings of sho kosugi (regardless of wether or not he was actually in the film) .
my guess is the flying boy is a korean version of the' watari' or' sarutobei sasuke' sort of adult - killing boy heroes. would love to see this weirdness ...
an evil ninja arrives from japan and wreaks havoc on a golf course until the police pump him full of bullets in a sandtrap. with his last energy, he throws a smoke bomb and under its cover crawls into a phone company van driven by pretty telephone lineperson and aerobics instructor christie (lucinda dickey). as he dies there, his soul possesses her body, ... read more
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now on the subject of clutter, it’s not always a bad thing. take these for example :
american soldier, obviously very skilled in martial arts, single - handedly takes on mercenaries in the philippines .
tooks ages to find this trailer. alternate version urltoken (thanks to urltoken for the heads up) .
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i finally bit the bullet and tracked down a vhs copy of this film from amazon last year (along with another oldie, treasure of the four crowns). then, last week, i saw they were selling a dvd version, which i bought. unfortunately, it looks to be from a vhs version from overseas. the sound is crap as is the picture quality (plus it features some foreign subtitles), but the price was right on sale and it’ll hold me over until i get impatient for an official release. would be nice .
maybe its largely overlooked because it’s had no life beyond the vhs era. why! ?! ?! ?
let’s look at some way better posters, mostly from movies nowhere near as good or important as the above .
i' m not knocking it though - it' s awesome in its cheesy 80s way. i don' t think you could come up with a more 80s plot if you tried; it' s about a ninja who possesses an aerobics instructor to get revenge on the cops who killed him - the only thing that' s missing from this
80s movie bingo
is a subplot about drug smuggling. but they make up for it in the details; there' s a hot tub, v - 8 juice, a giant ugly clock, lots of pastel clothing, an out of nowhere sex scene... in short, there isn' t a frame of the film that you can look at and not know for sure that it was from an 80s film .
it never got a straight us dvd release, but the new blu - ray for it is multi - format .
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i don’t know who that el santo - looking weirdo is, but i’m interested, because this poster is so well composed i know where to look. i can see what’s important there – muscly kung - fu dude, go - go girl without pants, strange meance hovering over both – with little effort. even the long 4 - word title comes across right. you can catch a sideways glance of this poster and know it’s a martial arts film about a silver ninja. win !
two anti - terrorist agents are assigned to free a busload of american schoolchildren in the philippines who are taken hostage by terrorists .
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the main bonus feature is an audio commentary from director sam firstenberg, who is refreshingly candid about his movie' s strengths and weaknesses, and stunt coordinator steve lambert. a still gallery of nearly 100 fun behind - the - scenes photos is also included .
when an aerobics instructor and her new police detective boyfriend make the beast with two backs, you can' t help but notice that his is disturbingly hairy. that is just one of the many disorienting elements that make this such a wacked - out experience .
another fantastic bonus is firstenberg’s own photo collection, with some behind - the - scenes stuff none of us have ever seen before .
it distills the 80s down into diamond - hard pellets, dumps them into a shotgun, and unloads both barrels right in your face .
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or did it suffer from its mixed pedigree? it certainly lies more in the ma genre than horror, and you don’t see it listed alongside the exorcists and poltergeists in books or articles about retro possession cinema. maybe there’s too much kicking and stunt work and not enough outright scares ?
also going to guess that these shinobi - fied ladies aren' t actually in this film, and that rather than a genuine 3 - d spectacle, it' s a run of the mill hong kong kung - fu flick from the 70' s. awesome poster art though .
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this movie has a special place in my heart not because it’s an awesome movie about ninjas that can kill an entire police force and crush a golf ball with his bare hands. no, it’s where some of the scenes take place. i’m born and raised in phoenix, so seeing the opening scenes i couldn’t believe what was shown on screen! papago park! sure not many people will recognize the location, but for me, it adds another layer of cheese and enjoyment to the film. i’m glad that showtime decided to run that movie a few times, have it recorded on vhs!
ninja iii : the domination is a 1984 american martial arts action horror film directed by sam firstenberg , and stars sho kosugi , lucinda dickey , jordan bennett , and james hong . it is the third film in cannon films ' ninja trilogy anthology series , the first being enter the ninja , and the second being revenge of the ninja . 
ninja iii: the domination is a 1984 american martial arts action horror film directed by sam firstenberg, and stars sho kosugi, lucinda dickey, jordan bennett, and james hong. it is the third film in cannon films' ninja trilogy anthology series, the first being enter the ninja, and the second being revenge of the ninja.
ninja iii: the domination is a 1984 american martial arts action horror film directed by sam firstenberg, and stars sho kosugi, lucinda dickey, jordan bennett, and james hong. it is the third film in cannon films' ninja trilogy anthology series, the first being enter the ninja, and the second being revenge of the ninja.