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Ninja Terminator (1986)

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Hitman the Cobra (1987)

My rating: 4/10

Even for a Godfrey Ho movie, this is pretty bad - mostly because it is quite dull. The pre-existing movie is reasonably well made, but unremarkable, the "Richard Harrison murdering people in the park" stuff is less well made, but still unremarkable (he's neither a ninja nor wearing a mustache in this one, so what is even the point?), and they made even less of an effort than usual to make it seem like the two belong in the same movie. The dubbing is, as expected, remarkably bad, but not enough to carry the movie.

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Ninja Terminator (1986)

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Ninja Terminator (1986)

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Ninja Terminator (1986)

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Ninja Dragon (1986)

“Ninjas are a sure fire way to get me to watch a movie. They are on a long list of subjects that guarantee I will, if given the chance, indulge in a film. I have hurdled through various genres or degrees of quality solely due to the promise of a ninja appearing on screen at some point. The movie doesn’t even have to be good, which is great, because there are tons of bad flicks involving the mythic assassins. Ninjas go well with everything, but they meld especially well in trash flicks. In a way the ninja, as we know and love it, belongs to cheesy entertainment. Not that there wasn’t historically a people labeled as such, but the stylized image most of us pull to mind when we hear the word has been mostly formed of uninformed (but fun) fiction. The dark clad magical death fairy we have come to recognize as a “ninja” is, in bulk, the product of sensationalist oral storytelling, literary action tales and repeating trends in b-movies. It’s as if two separate things share the name with only a minor relationship. On the one hand, you have the very real group of sneaky mercenaries that purposely remained mostly unknown, and on the other, one of entertainment’s many beautiful bastard children in some cool/comfortable fight clothing. In films, they can range from a magical order of karate wizards to cronie cannon fodder for the hero to mop up in faceless droves. The fill-in-the-blanks nature allows them to be shoved into most situations with little struggle, be it as major characters or hired help. In a lot of cases, it just makes a bad movie better, like throwing in something like nudity or a chainsaw.  I fucking love ninjas, real ones and fake ones, whatever ninjas you got really.  I hope to one day marry a ninja. You know who else really fucking loves ninjas? Godfrey Ho… or at least I assume he does since he was so instrumental in my gratuitous love for the fake kind of ninjas. A huge chunk of his life’s work incorporates one, or a bunch, as well as a title that contains the word. This, of course, includes his unexplainably absorbing mess of kung-fu and incredibly bad dubbing- Ninja Dragon (1986).”- RevTerry

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Ninja Powerforce (1988)

My rating: 4/10

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Thunder Ninja Kids: The Hunt for the Devil Boxer (1991)

My rating: 6/10

This one's pretty fun, Satan's in it.