Full Metal Ninja (1989)

Clip: "Bullets are expensive..."



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Directed by Godfrey Ho

Starring Pierre Kirby, Jean Paul and Renato Sala

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Undefeatable (1993)

Clip: Opening Fight



Clip: Bear! Bear! Bear! Bear!



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Directed by Godfrey Ho

Starring Cynthia Rothrock, Don Niam and John Miller

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Ninja Destroyer (1986)

Directed by Godfrey Ho

Starring Stuart Smith and Bruce Baron

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The Ninja Squad (1986)

Directed by Godfrey Ho and Robert Young.

Starring Richard Harrison and Dave Wheeler.

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No need to watch the real film. This trailer is good enough.

It's like every ninja movie (and there are nearly a hundred) produced in the 80's by Joseph Lai all take place in the exact same forest clearing. Just watch any ninja movie trailer from this time period and you will recognize the exact same spot in the forest where two rival ninjas must fight to the death on overexposed film stock.

The Joseph Lai films are becoming some of my favourite trailers.

Zombie vs. Ninja (1987) aka Zombie Rival: The Super Ninja Master

Admittedly my knowledge of 80's ninja titles is pretty low but this one caught my eye for the title alone (actually this one has many titles and it took me awhile to confirm that this trailer was for Zombie vs Ninja).

Joseph Lai was the producer on this and he was responsible for about 9 or 10 similar films PER YEAR in the mid-80's. He also directed a handful of them and about 90 percent have the word "Ninja" in the title. Many of these titles were released in North America by the video company Imperial Entertainment and the VHS covers are really memorable (many of which can be seen on Critical Condition Online). Lai went on to produce a whole slew of "Kickboxer" movies in the 90's.

Like a lot of these films, it looks like they were almost entirely shot on one location in the woods and there is plenty of dubbed in phrases like "bastards!" and the like. Fun stuff.

Directed by Godfrey Ho.

Starring Pierre Kirby.

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