No Surrender Cinema: Ninja Over the Great Wall
Get ready for more ninjas in this installment of No Surrender Cinema, as the men in black are pitted against a formidable foe. Two of the biggest genres in martial arts movie history combine in this...
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The Checklist: Raven (S1 Ep1) “Return of the Black Dragon”
Last year, I put a randomly selected episode of Raven (a ninja themed television series that aired on CBS from June 1992 until April 1993) to The Checklist test. This time out I thought I would...
Bullet Points: 9 ½ Ninjas!
I don’t know whose idea it was to make a ninja spoof of the erotic drama 9 ½ Weeks, but that person is a genius. If you add ninjas to any movie the chance of me...
Bullet Points: White Phantom
It is Ninja Week here on BulletproofAction.com and I thought I would kick things off with one of the more unsung movies of the ninja genre, 1987’s White Phantom… I remember enjoying White Phantom when I...
Bullet Points: Mafia vs. Ninja
There was a time in my life that if your ninja movie did not star Shô Kosugi or Michael Dudikoff, I probably wasn’t going to watch. Which meant I missed out on a lot of the...
Ryan Shoots First: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
If you grew up with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles like I did, then you not only had the Turtle toys but you had all the outrageous non-Turtle mutants too… The Leatherheads, Mondo Geckos, etc. Teenage...
Scene of the Week: Good Friends, Better Enemies
One of the great things about 2013’s Ninja: Shadow of a Tear is the inclusion of Kane Kosugi. Kane made his acting debut when he was just a kid in 1983’s Revenge of the Ninja alongside...
The Checklist: The Master (S1 Ep9) “Kunoichi”
Dozens of classic television shows have been put to The Checklist test here on Bulletproof Action over the years. But if I had to put money on which classic series I believed would be the first...
Bullet Points: Ninja in Action
I am not exactly sure how many ninja movies were made in the 1980s, but it is a safe bet that nobody produced more ninja content in the 1980s than Filmark International. My latest trip down...
Bullet Points: Ninja Condors
For me, 2022 was a year of exploring the ninja filmography of Alexander Lo Rei (aka Alexander Lou) with first time watches for Ninja in the USA and The Super Ninja. I thought I’d squeeze one...
