Two more patch jobs on missing or never completed Roundtables.
#9: Catch a Throwing Star!
By the 1980s, things really got out of hand, and more than a few movies from both sides of the Pacific featured people in wildly colorful ninja outfits running around the streets of modern day cities. You don’t get very far as a spy if you look like a spy, and there is very little that’s nondescript about a guy in metallic red pajamas and a face mask running down the streets of modern-day Duluth while waving a katana over his head.
#13: Go Go Go-Go Boys!
Sho Kosugi is a former ninja (I didn’t know there were such thing — do you get a good 401k as a retired ninja?) who moves to Los Angeles to run an antique shop with his friend. What he doesn’t know is that his friend is using the antiques as a way to smuggle dope.
Keith Allison is the chief Bacchanologist at Teleport City.
#1 by ronald on June 15, 2019 - 7:16 am
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Excellent. Hopefully ninja films (and perhaps other genre-types) from the oeuvre of Godfrey Ho and company will follow. 🙂
#2 by DamonD on July 2, 2019 - 5:45 am
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Enjoyable reads. While your historical comments shed fresh light and I’m definitely no expert on ninjas – there’s something I didn’t expect to type today – even as I kid I knew how fanciful and downright ludicrous the fire-breathing teleport-spamming 80s ninja hero was. Didn’t matter, I still enjoyed it anyway.
What a strange but entertaining little career it was for Sho Kosugi, right guy in the right place at the right time. Great eyebrows for a ninja mask, too, that helps. Seem to recall Shogun Warrior, a feudal Japan-Spanish mash-up and one of his last films, being some enjoyable cheese as well.