Director; Godfrey Ho (or whatever he was calling himself that week)
Stars; Richard Harrison (usually), anyone else who happened to be nearby
Genre; Ninjacrap
Year; About 1984-1989
Release; Usually UK, IVL
An all-encompassing review. Mr Ho made several Ninja films during the 80's. Sort of. What he actually did was film lots of, very very bad, Ninja footage, featuring Western actors. He also got hold of the rights to a lot of bad asian films (often Thai or Phillipino) that were old, unfinished, unreleased etc. Taking the new footage, he cut it into the old fims, then, he redubbed the whole mess, to try and make some sense out of it. Using the same stocks of new footage, across a number of original films, he was able to release a lot of films for very little money. All the films are, basically the same. Utterly unfathomable messes. The Ninja stuff is awful, the western actors are obviously doubled, during the fights, and the fights are over by touching the other guy with the sword. You can tell they are Ninja too, they usually have it written on their headband. Harrison, who appears in many (although not always with his knowledge), is too old, and often wears a camo Ninja suit. Laughable, terrible to the extreme, these films are compulsive viewing.
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