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lunes, 5 de abril de 2010

JOSEPH LAI'S IFD & ARTS LTD full ninja movie list

There are a lot of people who still believe that Joseph Lai produced & distribuited dozens of hundreds (even thousands) ninja movies during the golden age of genre. Once again, this information is wrong. The main cause people thought IFD made hundreds of ninja movies was those films were worldwide distributed & they got different titles in each country.

Also, some different companies from the same country bought the same rights of the same movie & they distributed them as different products under different titles. This was quite commom & to make the things worse, many of them mixed or interchange the art covers of the same movie. So some times we found, for example, the art cover for Cobra Against Ninja was used for Ninja Operation: Knight & Warrior in some places...and so on.

This art cover also was used for a video edition titled Silent Assassin ( Ninja Operation Knight & Warrior)

Now, I would like to clear these mistakes offering the FULL NINJA MOVIE LIST ever come out from IFD & Arts Ltd. I have added ot it some of the akas titles I have found. Obviously I only included the international English titles of each one. Adding the French, German, Spanish, Italian, Greek, Portuguese and all the languages would be an impossible mission since these movies arrived to the limists of the world. Who knows how it was titled Ninja Dragon in Poland, Thailand or Brazil???

To make it easier, I listed the movies in Alphabetical order.

IFD FILMS & ARTS LIMITED NINJA MOVIE TITLES

One of the many IFD logos

-CHALLENGE THE NINJA (aka ULTIMATE NINJA CHALLENGE)
-COBRA AGAINST NINJA
-DIAMOND NINJA FORCE (aka GHOST NINJA)
-FULL METAL NINJA
-GOLDEN NINJA WARRIOR
-NINJA CHAMPION
-NINJA COMMANDMENTS
-NINJA DESTROYER
-NINJA DRAGON
-NINJA HUNT
-NINJA KILL
-NINJA KNIGHT: THUNDER FOX
-NINJA KNIGHT 2 - BLOOD BROTHERS (aka NINJA KILLER, aka OFFICIAL -EXTERMINATOR:KILL FOR LOVE)
-NINJA KNIGHT 3: HEAVEN'S HELL (aka OFFICIAL EXTERMINATOR 2: HEAVEN'S HELL)
-NINJA KNIGHT 4: JOY OF THE LIVING DEAD (aka OFFICIAL EXTERMINATOR 3: JOY FOR THE LIVING DEAD)

What the hell means Joy of the living dead????

-NINJA OF THE MAGNIFICENCE (aka AMERICAN NINJA THE MAGNIFICENT)
-NINJA OPERATION - KNIGHT AND WARRIOR (aka SILENT ASSASSIN, aka BLACK NINJA)
-NINJA OPERATION 2 - WAY OF CHALLENGE (aka NINJA STRIKE FORCE)

-NINJA OPERATION 3 - LICENSED TO TERMINATE
-NINJA OPERATION 4 - THUNDERBOLT ANGELS (aka NINJA POWERFORCE)

-NINJA OPERATION 5 - GODFATHER THE MASTER (aka POWER OF NINJITSU)
-NINJA OPERATION 6 - CHAMPION ON FIRE (aka NINJA AVENGERS)
-NINJA OPERATION 7 - ROYAL WARRIORS (aka HANDS OF DEATH)
-NINJA TERMINATOR
-NINJA THE PROTECTOR
-NINJA THUNDERBOLT
-RAGE OF A NINJA
-THE NINJA SHOWDOWN
-THE NINJA SQUAD
-THE ULTIMATE NINJA

OTHER MOVIES FROM IFD WHICH INCLUDE NINJA SCENES

-AMERICAN COMMANDO: ANGEL'S BLOOD MISSION (aka ADVENT COMMANDO:ANGEL'S BLOOD MISSION)
-OFFICIAL EXTERMINATOR 4 : GODDESS MISSION
-OFFICIAL EXTERMINATOR 5: ENTER THE VICTORY (aka NIGHT OF THE NINJA)
-PLATOON THE WARRIORS
-THUNDER KIDS: GOLDEN ADVENTURE
-THUNDER KIDS 2: WONDERFUL MISSION
-THUNDER KIDS 3: HUNT FOR THE DEVIL BOXER
-ZODIAC AMERICA: THE SUPERMASTER (aka ZOMBIE VS NINJA, aka ZODIAC POWER:THE SUPERMASTER, aka THE GRAVEDIGGER)
-ZODIAC AMERICA 2: EVIL DESTROYER


VIDEO NINJA MOVIES FROM IFD UNDER ADDA AUDIO VISUAL


-BORN A NINJA

IFD also produced ninja movies shot on video

-COMMANDO THE NINJA

NINJA MOVIES FROM ASSO ASIA



-REVENGE OF THE DRUNKEN MASTER (aka DRAGONER 7:THE TREMENDOUS- New title from IFD)



-SECRET NINJA ROARING FIRE (aka NINJA KNIGHT 2: ROARING FIRE- New title from IFD)



TV SERIES

-NINJA MYTH. Well, this is not really a TV series featuring new ninja adventures, IFD comprised its previous ninja movies into 32 episodies of 55 minutes each. I haven't seen it but it is pretty obvious that just another exercixe of re-edition & re-re-re dubbing acts were done to get this new product.

10 comentarios:

  1. ¿Vas a poner esta información en español o la tienes en algún otro sitio?.
    Muchas gracias y estupendo blog.

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  2. La idea principal del blog era hacerlo bilingüe, todos los post irian en ingles y español. Pero como el tema interesa mas fuera de España y la mayoria de los visitantes tb son foraneos los ultimos post los he puesto solo en ingles.
    En España, es triste decirlo pero es la verdad, solo interesan las webs con descargas, las que ofrecen solo informacion, reseñas y datos en general no interesan, pues imaginate si de los que se habla es solo de estas pelis de ninjas como es mi caso.

    Ma adelante los post dedicados a las localizaciones re rodaje si que los hare en doble version.

    Gracias por tu mensaje!

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  3. Great IFD list: many thanks for it.
    At the moment i try to do a Filmark ninja list which is trickier i think...

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  4. Great!!!!...I have tried to make a full list of Filmark catalog but it is quite hard since Filmark also owned some movies previously distributed by Asso Asia. Also Filmark dissapeared & getting a list of everything the produced & distributed is a challenging task!

    Anyway, I would like to see that list...please contact me throught my profile. Maybe together we can make it more accurate!

    Best

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  5. okay will contact you as soon as i go on with Filmark...there is a nice Filmark list on nanarland...
    btw do you have any idea which taiwanese movie was "used" in Golden Ninja Warrior? it stars Tin Ming and Tong Ga-Kuen(star of Son Of Yellow Dragon).
    best

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  6. No, sorry I don't know the original source of Golden ninja Warrior. There are another ninja titles from IFD that casted the same stars of Golden ninja warrior: RAGE OF A NINJA, another taiwanese ninja movie similar ( full of gratuitous sex & violence) to Golden ninja warrior and Ninja knight Thunderfox that used a taiwanese film whose title I know but I can't remember right now..I will check it & let you know.

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  7. By the way Ting Ming was also the bad boy in the original source of Ninja Knight: Thuderfox playing exactly the same role he played in Golden ninja Warrior.

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  8. Pues mira que a mi si me interesan todos los datos que pones, no sólo las descargas, así que si te animas que sepas qué al menos hay alguien que los lee, jejeje.

    Un saludo y gracias.

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  9. Can someone let me know where I can get a copy of the movie NINJA KNIGHT 4: JOY OF THE LIVING DEAD (aka OFFICIAL EXTERMINATOR 3: JOY FOR THE LIVING DEAD)?

    Thanks

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  10. I got my copy from Mike Abbott himself. I know it was released on tape in the US but I have never seen it in Europe.

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