Cut, Paste and re-edition

Till now it was pretty difficult to find out the original sources Joseph Lai & Tomas Tang used for their ninja experiments ( well, not only ninja but also modern day actioners, thrillers, superheroes flicks...etc). If the fan was a die hard asian moviesgoer was quite easy to guess if the original movie used by Lai or Tang was Thai, Korean, Taiwanese, Filipino..etc but the searchas was over in that step.
Spanish people have been lucky in the way that Spanish distributors who dealed with IFD or Filmark bought many of the original movies without the pasted shots starred by Mike Abbott, Pierre Kirby, Sean Odell and many others. That advantage gave me a thin link to continue my search of other titles throught the years. Thanks to internet, friends around the world & even some people who were involved on those productions I have been able to dig more & more information about those asian movies used by IFD.

There are a lot of fake stories in internet about if Lai,Tang & company used unfinished movies for their projects...THAT'S FAKE, lets repeat again: THAT'S FAKE. IFD & Filmark used to distribute Asian films all around the world as Intercontinental Films & Ocean Shores did ( well, Golden Harvest & Shaw Bros also did but they did't do exclusively like IFD).
Joseph Lai used to go to films market, bought a bunch of movies, redubbed them into English, changed the original title for an international English one & finally throw his products back to the movie markets. When the demand of ninja movies was huge, Lai & Tang just used many of their previously released films, re-edited them, redubbed them & pasted some new shots directed by people like Godfrey Ho, Philip Ko among other many more.

Some examples that enlight my exposition are:

-Ninja Thunderbolt, originally a taiwanese production from the early 80's entitled THE NINJA & THE THIEF that Lai bought & added some fotage of Richard Harrison. The original movie without the added shots was released in Hong Kong by Ocean Shores.



-Inferno Thunderbolt: Another taiwanese movie from the early 80`s who has Richard Harrison playing a hard boiled cop in some added shots by IFD. Its original title was THE ANGER & it was also released in Hong Kong without Harrison shots by Ocean Shores.



-Platoon the Warriors: It is a very interesting movie directed by Philip Ko who used as main body a filipino movie titled DIEGONG BAYONG. KO directed Mike Abbott & Mark Watson in the new added scenes & mixed them with the original filipino source.


-Advent Commando 3: Savage Temptation, this movie has been eliminated from the IFD official catalog. The reason may be a copyright reason or whatever. I state it because the movie used for this modern day actioner starring Pierre Kirby was a coproduction between Hong Kong & Taiwan titled GIRL WITH A GUN, edited again in Hong Kong by Ocean Shores.



-Full Metal Ninja was just a cut, re-edited version of a korean movie titled MU IN (1984) that was a mere imitation of the Lone Wolf & Cub movie series but without babycarts & baby.




For more info you can check the pics added in the post named CORTA, PEGA y EDITA written in Spanish.