Bulletproof Action has paid tribute to Shô Kosugi on numerous occasions and rightfully so. And while this week’s Scene of the Week from 1985’s Pray for Death is another great display of Kosugi’s ninja awesomeness, I...
The ninja craze of the 1980’s was in full swing when The Master first hit the air on January 20, 1984 as a mid-season replacement on NBC. The show starred action legend, Lee Van Cleef. Van...
There is a great deal of debate among Shô Kosugi fans on which of his revenge themed flicks is the better movie, Revenge of the Ninja or Pray for Death. Some Shô Kosugi fans have their definitive favorite, while others...
Bulletproof Action celebrated its four year anniversary in grand fashion this year when we presented The Ultimate Cannon Countdown! The Top 10 list, generated by compiling the opinions of the Bulletproof Action staff and some friends...
1988’s Black Eagle is sort of a tale of two movies for the stars of the film, Shô Kosugi and Jean-Claude Van Damme. For Kosugi, Black Eagle was the start of his acting career winding down after years...
There can never be enough movies about ninjas. I wouldn’t be an honest man if I didn’t at least acknowledge that I wasn’t lining up at the theater to see Ninja Assassin when it first came...
The 16th century was pretty crazy in Japan. Warlords were fighting each other for nearly every single speck of dirt and the legendary and notorious ninja were fighting right alongside them every step of the way....
Shô Kosugi wasted little time indoctrinating his sons, Shane and Kane, into the world of martial arts. As soon as Shô could start training them he did and those skills would pay off both sooner and...
Shô Kosugi and Scott Adkins have quite a bit in common. Both are practitioners of the martial arts. Both are international action movie superstars. Both were even born on June 17th. Kosugi was born on June...
In the world of ninja movies, it is one of the best. In the world of Shô Kosugi movies, it is the best. 1983’s Revenge of the Ninja is also one of the rare times where a sequel...
