Sunday, November 22, 2009

NEW NINJA MOVIE: Ninja Assassins a high action ninja flick opens this weekend!

MOVIE TITLE: Ninja Assassins.
RELEASE DATE: November 25, 2009.
STYLE: High Action & High Martial Arts Visual FX

Director:
James McTeigue (V For Vendetta)
Runtime: 99 minutes.

Sho Kosugi Returns!

Sho Kosugi of the "Enter the Ninja" trilogy stars as the ruthless leader of the Ozunu Clan in Ninja Assassins.


NOTES
The ninja movies back with a big time vengeance.
Could this be a spearhead to a new ninja boom?
Ninja Assassin just plain rocks.
From the makers of the Matrix films.


OVERVIEW
A skilled young ninja Raizo (Rain) turns his back on the orphanage that trained him in ninja skills and also raised him, this leads to a confrontation with a fellow ninja from the clan and his ninja assassins.

Lot's of bloody gore and ninja violence. Tons of ninjas.

Official Movie Synopsis from Warner Bros. Pictures, via Comingsoon:

Ninja Assassin follows Raizo (Rain), one of the deadliest assassins in the world. Taken from the streets as a child, he was transformed into a trained killer by the Ozunu Clan, a secret society whose very existence is considered a myth. But haunted by the merciless execution of his friend by the Clan, Raizo breaks free from them… and vanishes. Now he waits, preparing to exact his revenge.In Berlin, Europol agent Mika Coretti (Naomie Harris) has stumbled upon a money trail linking several political murders to an underground network of untraceable assassins from the Far East. Defying the orders of her superior, Ryan Maslow (Ben Miles), Mika digs into top secret agency files to learn the truth behind the murders. Her investigation makes her a target, and the Ozunu Clan sends a team of killers, led by the lethal Takeshi (Rick Yune), to silence her forever. Raizo saves Mika from her attackers, but he knows that the Clan will not rest until they are both eliminated. Now, entangled in a deadly game of cat and mouse through the streets of Europe, Raizo and Mika must trust one another if they hope to survive…and finally bring down the elusive Ozunu Clan.












TAGS: Ninja assassin, Ninja Movie, Ninja Video, Ninjutsu, Sho Kosugi , Enter the ninja, the return of the ninja, James McTeigue,

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Japanese Ninja Movie: Shinobi. A modern ninja movie.

Japanese Ninja Movie: Shinobi. A modern ninja movie. (2007)




Friday, July 24, 2009

Classic Ninja Movie - WARRIOR OF THE WIND Japanese Ninja Movie from the 1960's

Classic Ninja Movie - WARRIOR OF THE WIND.
A Japanese Ninja Movie from the 1960's

Kaze no Bushi 
DATE: 1964 
COLOR: Color 
RATIO: 16:9 Anamorphic
STYLE: Action / Suspense 



A great classic ninja movie, from the golden age of ninja films in Japan.

Based on the book by Shiba Ryotaro.  Warrior of the wind is a ninja action thriller.

The main characters are Shinzo and a beautiful princess who are involved in
romance and intrigue in the land of Yasurai in the Kumano Moutains of ancient 
Japan.  

The story sets around hidden gold, love and a evil sword.
Actor Okawa Hashizo plays the leading role of the ninja.


Directed by: KATO Tai
Cast: 
OKAWA Hashizo, KUBO Naoko, OKI Minoru


TAGS: Ninja, Ninjutsu, Iga, Koga, Bujinkan, Shuriken, Japanese ninja, ninja sword, samurai, samurai movie, action movie, vintage movie.

Ninja / Samurai Movie - Hanzo the Razor: Sword of Justice

Samurai / Ninja Movie - Hanzo The Razor: Sword of Justice.
Part of The Razor Trilogy.

Ninja Movie Spotlight - Hanzo the Razor: Sword of Justice 
Hanzo the Razor part 1 of 3.

AKA: (御用牙 Goyōkiba)

"The first movie in the Razor Trilogy."

Overview:
More of a samurai than a a ninja movie.
Ninjas make many appearances throughout the trilogy.
Hanzos home is set up like a ninjas, with many hiden weapons
and traps.

Style: Japanese Samurai with Ninja Appearances.
Genre: Action
Rating: R (Strong sexual content) 
•••• Do not watch this one with the little ninjas.
The sexual content is even a little strong for western adults.
Year: 1972.
Language: Japanese (USA Subtitles)
Country: Japanese
Color: Color
Run Time: 94 mins
Company: Katsu Prod.

MOVIE INFORMATION:
 
Shintaro Katsu (best known for his role as Zatoichi )Kamisori Hanzō.

The story is based on the manga Goyōkiba by Kazuo Koike, whose Lone Wolf and Cub manga was also adapted as a film series by Katsu, this time starring his brother, Tomisaburo Wakayama.

Set in the corruption of Edo period Japan. 

Each plot details Hanzo Itami's foiling a plot by corrupt officials.
Hanzo is a police officer.  Fighting corrupt samurai and ninjas sent
to kill him.

There is strong sexual content in these films.
Hanzo uses torture, not only on his prisoners, to get them
to confess, but also on himself as a form of self purification.









Ninja / Samurai Movie - Hanzo the Razor

Samurai / Ninja Movie - Hanzo The Razor: The Snare.

Samurai / Ninja Movie - Hanzo The Razor: The Snare.
Part of The Razor Trilogy.

Ninja Movie Spotlight - Hanzo the Razor: The Snare 
Hanzo the Razor part 2 of 3.

AKA: ((御用牙 かみそり半蔵地獄責め Goyōkiba: Kamisori Hanzō jigoku zeme))

"The Second movie in the Razor Trilogy."

Overview:
More of a samurai than a a ninja movie.
Ninjas make many appearances throughout the trilogy.
Hanzos home is set up like a ninjas, with many hiden weapons
and traps.

Style: Japanese Samurai with Ninja Appearances.
Genre: Action
Rating: R (Strong sexual content) 
•••• Do not watch this one with the little ninjas.
The sexual content is even a little strong for western adults.
Year: August 11th 1973.
Language: Japanese (USA Subtitles)
Country: Japanese
Color: Color
Run Time: 89 mins
Company: Katsu Prod.

MOVIE INFORMATION:
 
Shintaro Katsu (best known for his role as Zatoichi )Kamisori Hanzō.

The story is based on the manga Goyōkiba by Kazuo Koike, whose Lone Wolf and Cub manga was also adapted as a film series by Katsu, this time starring his brother, Tomisaburo Wakayama.

Set in the corruption of Edo period Japan. 

Each plot details Hanzo Itami's foiling a plot by corrupt officials.
Hanzo is a police officer.






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Samurai / Ninja Movie - Hanzo the Razor: Who's Got the Gold? 1974



Ninja Movie Spotlight - Hanzo the Razor: Who's Got the Gold? 
Hanzo the Razor part 3 of 3.

AKA: (御用牙 鬼の半蔵やわ肌小判Goyōkiba: Oni no Hanzō yawahada koban)

"The Final movie in the Razor Trilogy."

Overview:
More of a samurai than a a ninja movie.
Ninjas make many appearances throughout the trilogy.
Hanzos home is set up like a ninjas, with many hiden weapons.


Style: Japanese Samurai with Ninja Appearances.
Genre: Action
Rating: R (Strong sexual content) 
•••• Do not watch this one with the little ninjas.
The sexual content is even a little strong for western adults.
Year:  9 February , 1974.
Language: Japanese (USA Subtitles)
Country: Japanese
Color: Color
Run Time: 84 mins
Company: Katsu Prod.

MOVIE INFORMATION:
 
Shintaro Katsu (best known for his role as Zatoichi )Kamisori Hanzō.

The story is based on the manga Goyōkiba by Kazuo Koike, whose Lone Wolf and Cub manga was also adapted as a film series by Katsu, this time starring his brother, Tomisaburo Wakayama.

Set in the corruption of Edo period Japan. 

Each plot details Hanzo Itami's foiling a plot by corrupt officials.
Hanzo is a police officer.

Hanzo is a police officer, who normally carries a short 2-pronged dagger (jutte or sai) which was common for Edo Police. this jutte has a hidden, weighted chain within it, which Hanzo uses to block against sword attacks or ensnare fleeing criminals. In combination with the jutte, he sometimes uses a brass knucle type device, a iron spiked fist weapon. He also uses the classic samurai sword at times.

Hanzo utilizes torture on himself and on others as a means of interrogation and self-purification.

Hanzo ritualistically flagellates his huge penis so as to make it stronger; this exercise is always followed up by Hanzo's practicing sexual intercourse with a bale of rice.

Hanzo's home is filled with exotic traps and weapons to defeat assassins like ninja, such as a hidden rotating wall of weapons near his Japanese bath and spears that spring from the ceiling of his hallways.  He uses the hidden weapons to fight a group of black clad ninja.

Hanzo interrogates female suspects by using forced sex acts.  After he drinks sake with them in his hot bath.



__________Starring:Shintaro Katsu
Yukiji Asaoka
Mari Atsumi
Takahiro Tamura
Ko Nishimura

Director: Misumi Kenji
Writen By:Kazuo Koike
Kazuo Koike (story)
Takeshi Kanda (story)





Old Poster for Hanzo the Razor: Who's got the Gold.


Scene Still from  Hanzo the Razor: Who's got the Gold.
In this image we can see part of his hidden weapons stash.
The weapons wall rotates to reveal or hide weapons,
that are hidden all over his house, to out smart the ninjas.



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Monday, May 4, 2009

Ninjutsu Gozen-jiai AKA The Koga Ninja (1957) Classic Japanese Ninja Movie

Ninjutsu Gozen-jiai (1957)
AKA: The Koga Ninja

A Classic Japanese Ninja Movie.

DIRECTOR: Tadashi Sawashima
COUNTRY: Japan
COMPANY: Tōei Company, Limited
COLOR: Black and White
DURATION: 61 minutes

CAST: 
Denjirô Ôkôchi as Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Hiroshi Yamate as Toyotomi Hideyori
Motoharu Ueki as Ishikawa Goroichi
Ryunosuke Tsukigata as Momochi Sandayu




Ninjutsu (1957) Classic Ninja Video. Very Old Ninja Flick.

Ninjutsu (1957)
... aka Yagyu bugeicho 
... aka Secret Scrolls 
... aka Yagyu Secret Scrolls

NOTE: This is NOT Ninjutsu Gozen-jiai, That is a different film.

Director: Hiroshi Inagaki
Starring: Toshiro Mifune, as Tasaburo

COUNTRY: Japan
COLOR: Color
COMPANY: Toho Company

PLOT
In the Tokugawa Era, the clan of Lord Yagyu has hidden away three scrolls containing clan secrets which, if revealed, would cause revolution and disaster for the clan. The information is divided among the three scrolls, all of which must be possessed for the secrets to be understood. When Princess Yuhime steals the scrolls, Tasaburo, a samurai with magical powers, and his brother Senshiro are sent to retrieve them. Written by Jim Beaver {jumblejim@prodigy.net}


Monday, April 20, 2009

NINJA MOVIES and NINJUTSU VIDEOS. List and reviews

NINJA MOVIES and NINJUTSU VIDEOS. List and reviews

COMING VERY SOON! Keep watching!