Ninja The Mission Force 2: Ninja Godfather

Dear friends & visitors, I am very glad I am not late this time to publish in this humble site the second episode of Ed Glaser's NINJA THE MISSION FORCE: NINJA GODFATHER.
I can only say the impossible turned possible because I thought the first episode was unbeatable but once again I was wrong because NINJA GODFATHER is funnier, crazier and even includes a special wink to the fans with the special voice apearance of Andy Chworovsky who played an evil henchman in Ninja Diamond Force & a naive policeman in Ninja the Protector.

Andy Chworosvky as Andy in both Ninja The Protector & Ninja The Mission Force

Andy Chworovsky lends his voice in Ninja Godfather saying his famous lines from Ninja the Protector. Once again, Ed Glaser proves Ninja The Mission Force is a heartfelt homage to IFD ninja movies & the people who worked on them!

Another surprise is Richard Harrison comes back to take part in a Ninja feature starring Steve the gladiator who must face the mafia!... Pure IFD entertainment.

If you like IFD & Filmark Ninja Movies, NINJA The Mission Force is what we all have been waiting for years & now we got it thanks to DARK MAZE STUDIOS.

Ninja The Mission Force: Ninja Begininator

I suppose I am a bit late announcing NINJA THE MISSION FORCE first episode here just almost a week after its official release, but Ed Glaser's show must be here at any cost. Shame on me because my delay to put it here so late. Personal reasons & problems are taking away most of my free time...Anyway, lets forget my excuses and lets enjoy

Ninja The Mission Force: Ninja Begininator

What's your feelings after this experience? There is no doubts Ed Glaser & his people have spent a lot of time watching IFD & Filmark stuff. We just have to see the photography of Ninja The Mission Force to confirm it. Mr Glaser has caught the IFD style on every frame, on every camera movement, on every face expression...Ninja The Mission Force is IFD glory at its best: even Laser Mission fotage looks like older in order to match those thai-filipino-taiwanese-korean movies used by IFD to create its ninja adventures.

We are really looking forward the second episode!

NINJA THE MISSION FORCE: First Look

Less than 24 hours left to the grand premiere of the year: NINJA THE MISSION FORCE. If you are so impatient & as I am looking forward the first chapter, you may calm down your anxiety watching a FIRST LOOK video that will help to understand whay NINJA THE MISSION FORCE is about & the feelings of the people behind it.

NINJA THE MISSION FORCE is the closest feature to what IFD & Filmark ever offered to Hong Kong movie fans during the ninja craze. Ed Glaser & his pals explains everything about it on this video.

If you enjoy this IFD & Filmark movies NINJA THE MISSION FORCE is what all of us were expecting to see.

Don't forget this is only a "snack"..tomorrow the Golden Ninja Empire shall raise again & will last forever.

NINJA THE MISSION FORCE..NINJA NINJA NINJA NINJA...Ninja.

IFD Spirit is Alive...NINJA THE MISSION FORCE is here.

Today is a grand day; DARKMAZE studios have already launched the website of the very best homage to IFD & its movies ever done by anyone. Not even Godfrey Ho himself would be able to do it better than Ed Glaser's studio & partners.

NINJA THE MISSION FORCE would make Joseph Lai proud because NINJA THE MISSION FORCE catches everything Mr Lai offered us almost 25 years ago. It is incredible funny & interested how IFD movies have spreaded their influence through all these years & now young filmmakers use them as inspiration for their work.

the middle 80's, Sonny Crockett, ninjas, Garfield cat telephone...what else do you need to success in the Mission Force???

IFD Films were done with the only purpose of pure entertainment, nothing else & now NINJA THE MISSION FORCE proves the above words. Ed Glaser & his team shows in a humorous but respectful way their admiration for IFD films. You can easily notice he has enjoy those movies, he knows the characters & scrips from those productions and even he use the very same cinematographic skills Godfrey Ho, Philip Ko, Ridley Tsui & others used when they were under Joseph Lai's orders.

Ninja the Protector evil ninja comes backs to action armed with new impossible dialogs and deadly eye make-up

Just check the trailer & you may understand it better: NINJA THE MISSION FORCE is the never made movie none have directed for IFD.

I really feel very proud, honored & happy Ed Glaser have let me see some parts of his work before its official release, that's why I take the chance in this site to invite all our honorable readers, followers & friends to join & get fun with NINJA THE MISSION FORCE on its official site just clicking HERE

Camo outfits with the always-nice-to-wear NINJA headband.

Yes, today is grand day but don't forget that Feb 16th will be a bigger day since NINJA THE MISSION FORCE will be premiered. If you enjoyed IFD time, you will be extremely pleased while watching NINJA THE MISSION FORCE. NINJA NINJA NINJA NINJA.....

Ninja Demon's Massacre Unpublished: Original Thai movie poster.

Tommy Cheng Kei Ying was one of the few people along Mike Abbott or Louis Roth that worked for Filmark under his real name. He started as supporting actor at IFD with Donald Kong and later both moved to Filmark to display their skill on different fields. One of the movies Tommy Cheng was credited with his real name was Ninja Demon's Massacre starring Stuart Smith as the hero & ex-venom Sun Chien as the bald-headed villain.

It may be Cheng Kei Ying was working in several Filmark movies at the same time & he got tired ( or lazy) to shoot the same kind of stuff at one time so in this movie only 10 to 15 minutes of uninspired ninja action & even Stuart Smith looks like lost.

Ninja Demon's Massacre is done from a Thai western-actioner-anticomunist drama starred by Sorapong Chatri & his regular supporting cast. Tomas Tang & his editor re-edited the story & change the dialogs in order to be able to add thee new ninja scenes...althought the final result has not too much sense. People at Filmark got lazy like it happened at IFD with titles such as Ninja Kill, Ninja Hunt and so & they were in the hurry to put so many titles in the market as possible but their products lacked the freshness titles such as Ninja Phantom, Ninja American Warrior, Warriors of fire and others had.

The Spanish VHS art cover was great, it showed a bionic ninja holding a future weapon & helicopters & soldiers...curiously 2 of the 3 pics in the back cover belongs to Ninja Phantom Hero Usa, a film who is seen in a small tv screen during a scene of Stuart Smith with his bosses in Ninja Demon's Massacre.
Anyway, here you can see the original poster of the thai movie used by Tomas Tang for his Ninja demon's massacre.

The original thai poster includes pics of the cast & draws of some moments of the film including the western flavour. Sometimes I wonder what was Tommy Cheng Kei Ying & Tomas Tang thinking when they choose this thai movie to create a ninja adventure????

Thanks to Regis Madec from Thaiworldview.com & Jub Classic movie for their kind help.

Reseña de El Tesoro de Kampuchea por Victor Olid de Aqui Vale Todo

Después de casi todo el mes de Enero sin poder haber actulizado el blog y sin haber estado preparando nuevos posts tengo que tirar de trabajo ajeno ( pero con el pertinente permiso de los autores, por supuesto) mientras trabajo en post propios. Aqui tienen ustedes una reseña de Victor Olid, componente del imprescindible blog AQUI VALE TODO y co-autor de un libro que necesita estar en todas las estanterias de los fans del cine casposo MALAS PERO DIVERTIDAS.

Caratula Española

Todo un clásico de los videoclubes, de la mano de Tomas Tang, que no queda muy claro lo siguiente; si este tipo realmente existió hasta que murió en un incendio, cosa esta que he leído, o es un seudónimo que utilizaron muchos productores y directores asiáticos, cosa que también he leído. El caso es que sus películas se cuentan a miles y el nombre que las ampara, sigue siendo un misterio. Lo cual es muy absurdo, porque se supone que todas las películas de la Filmark las dirige el propio Tomas Tang, bajo seudónimos ( Joe Livistone el mas popular, Burt Petersen con el que firma esta…) a saber.

Caratula Japonesa

EL TESORO DE KAMPUCHEA, destaca porque es una película un pelín más digna de lo que nos tiene acostumbrados el chino con apellido de refresco en polvo, pero eso no es bueno, porque la diversión se reduce a la mitad. Y que sea digna, por descontado, no quiere decir que sea buena, en absoluto…
Como siempre, el argumento existe, pero vagamente. Vamos, que te puedes hacer una idea de que va la cosa, pero luego todo es un desmadre y no te enteras de nada. En esta ocasión la cosa parece ir sobre un tesoro ( un jade rojo ) que es muy preciado en Camboya y una princesa que es secuestrada, así que unos tipos montados en una avioneta de esas como la que sale en el cartel, deciden ir a rescatarla. De por medio los Viet kong, hacen de las suyas, marcando el rostro con un hierro candente a unos cuantos chinos.

Pressbook original de la época

El caos argumental mas grande de todos. No hay manera de que te enteres de que pasa. Eso si, no da tiempo a aburrirnos, porque las escenas chabacanas de acción son un bombardeo, la acción no decae ni un segundo, va a 1000 por hora. Y las escenas de dialogo, son la risa, porque los protagonistas hablan de cosas superfluas que poco o nada tienen que ver con lo que pasa en la película. A eso hay que añadirle, el como los dobladores se toman a cachondeo la película y ponen todo su énfasis en doblar la película de mala manera, con lo que las risas están aseguradas.
Y es que en una peli de Tomas Tang, pasa lo mismo que con el porno, que una vez que has visto una peli suya, las has visto todas.

Pressbook con sinopsis en inglés y con la dirección de las oficinas de la Filmark

Lo que pasa es que en esta, no hay metrajes adicionales (o eso me parece a mí), no hay repetición de planos y no hay tanto jolgorio como en, por ejemplo, DARK DAY EXPRESS, pero da lo mismo, esta peli en compañía de amigotes es igualmente disfrutable. Pero no sorprende ni un poquito; lo de siempre, títulos de crédito con nombres Anglosajones, cuando no hay mas que uno o dos pésimos actores occidentales y mogollón de explosiones, en unas cintas de acción malísimas que vienen acompañadas de unos carteles espectaculares… La misma mierda de Tomas Tang que tanto amamos.

Para disfrutar de la reseña en su sitio original y además poder empaparse de reseñas de todo tipo pinchen AQUI.

Ninja in the Killing Fields Unpublished: Original Thai source movie poster

On October 26th, I posted I had got the original Thai VCD of the original movie Tomas Tang used on his Ninja in the killing fields, few days later I posted the movie could be seen uncut on YouTube, click here if you were interested on those posts.

Jub Classic movies was kindly to send me the original thai poster of MUE PUEN 3 AI MUE DUM (มือปืน 3 ไอ้มือดำ).

While the VCD title of this movie is the one I stated above, the cinema poster title is 123 Commando. I suppose this title must be a more "westerner" title of the original thai one.
Ninja in the Killing Fields belongs to the period Stuart Smith worked for Filmark under the pseudonym of Stuart Steen, as usual, the all the credits were "make-up" by Tang & we found the new pasted scenes were directed by York Lam...while the action was choreographed & played by Donald Kong Do & Ex-venom Sun Chien who, also as usual, has a supporting role.

RoboVampire Unpublished: Original Thai source movie Poster

There is no doubt Robovampire is one of the most well-known Tomas Tang's Filmark International films. It became an instant cult movie wherever it was released or edited. Just ask to any Hong Kong movie fan to name a Filmark movie & you will not feel surprised many of them will answer: Robovampire.

It may be the different art covers, showing a Robocop-type cyborg fighting against chinese vampires helped this film to become a cult movie. The idea itself is simply great, just imagine a bunch of teenagers who have previously enjoyed the original Robocop, holding on their hands another Robocop movie fighting Thailand drugs dealers, vampires, ghosts and he even knows Kung Fu!!!!...No one could resist to rent it.

Greek VHS cover doesn't show a Vampire but its "trashy filipino vietnam war movie" look is great

Too much has been writen about Robovampire, too many reviews, too many different opinions, too many videos on youtube BUT, have you ever get interested to know what thai movie was used by Tomas Tang & his crew to "design" Filmark's Robovampire??? Well, here you get the answer with the poster of such movie.

Few days ago, I talked to Regis Madec, webmaster of Thaiworldview who kindly helped me to find some Thai movies used by Tomas Tang & Joseph Lai. Then, Regi's friend Jub brought to me this poster that has to be shared to all the people who enjoys Robovampire. This poster means the seed of that movie, the origin of Robovampire.

I am very grateful to Fred Anderson from NinjaDixon blog, Regis Madec & Jub Classic Movie to help me during the last days to find out some of these movies. and of course, I am very grateful to Tomas Tang for offering us some of the wackiest but funniest movies ever produced.

Reseña Projecto Ninjas del Infierno ( aka Ninja Project Daredevil) en Aqui Vale Todo Por Aratz

Hace unos dias, Aratz, del blog Aqui Vale Todo (uno de los blogs sobre cine imprescindibles de la blogosfera española), publicó una reseña de este clásico de la Filmark editada en España tanto en VHS como en DVD. Con permiso del autor, ahi llevan el punto de vista del mismo sobre esta entretenida película de la factoria de Tomas Tang:

Película de la Filmark con Tomas Tang a la cabeza, por lo que ya sabemos lo que vamos a ver, un mix entre dos o más películas, dando como resultado una demencial historia, en este caso con ninjas por medio. Antes de ver la película, les comente a los amigos con los que había quedado para verla que esto suele ser lo habitual en estas producciones, que por falta de medios o simplemente porque así les salía más barato (lo segundo lo más seguro) se cogían dos películas, se mezclaban y cambiaban los diálogos para que pudieran estar unidas y listo, ya tenias un filme hecho. Esta Proyecto Ninjas del Infierno ya la reseño Naxo en una de sus noches inconexas, así que solo desarrollare un poco más lo que él ya conto y listo.

This movie was released as Ninja masters of death in the US

Un clan ninja que está pasando apuros económicos es tentado por otro clan para que se pasen al bando rebelde y se pongan en contra de su emperador a cambio del dinero que necesitan. Estos se niegan, e incluso dentro del clan de ninjas malvados, uno de ellos decide que no quiere seguir por esa senda y escapa, aunque sus antiguos compañeros no se lo van a poner fácil. Este ninja renegado intenta escapar junto a su mujer e hijo, pero son atacados y solo sobrevive el retoño. Supuestamente este chaval ya crecido, con unos 8 o 9 años, se dedica a ir por los pueblos dando la barrila a la gente y pidiendo el apoyo del pueblo a los rebeldes.

Un Capitán del ejercito del emperador, que justo pasaba por ahí, ve al crio, se encariña con el, y con la escusa de que es un rebelde lo captura. Intenta sacarle información de los ninjas, pero el chaval no suelta prenda. Poco a poco el joven se va encariñando con el Capitán al que al final considera como si fuera su padre.

Spanish VHS / BETA cover

Pero la guerra continua, así que el Capitán decide llevar al chaval con un profesor amigo suyo. En plena batalla el crio aparece por allí ¿Se había escapado, había llegado la guerra hasta la casa del profesor, porque está sucio y magullado? No lo explican pero porque es uno de los cortes dados por Tomas Tang para que la película cuadre en duración y supuestamente en lógica con el argumento. Entre medias vemos peleas chustas de ninjas de los dos clanes, el que tenía dificultades financieras y el de los ninjas malvados. Escenas que son horrorosas y terribles, no solo por su coreografía sino por sus planos y montaje. En esto que se vuelve al campo de batalla, vemos al ejercito disparando y luchando, pero no vemos contra quien, se supone que rebeldes y ninjas, en esto que el chaval y el Capitán quedan escondidos entre unas rocas, el crio sale corriendo pensando que a el no le van a disparar, y llegamos al momento emotivo del filme, el crio es acribillado por la espalda, a cámara lenta, con música triste. Cuando ya no hay peligro el Capitán sale de su escondite y llora desconsolado sobre el cadáver del chavalin. Fundido a negro y THE END.

El titulo es engañoso a más no poder (y la caratula, que por cierto la que yo tengo es más cutre y triste que esta), no hay proyecto que valga, y los ninjas no son del infierno, aunque el espectador desee que se achicharren allí por toda la eternidad. El vestuario de los ninjas es de risa con esos trajes de colores chillones, aunque el de la película del ejercito y el niño está bastante bien, algo lógico ya que no tiene nada que ver una y otra producciones.
Tomas Tang es un mago, coge dos películas, una más o menos decente y otra verdaderamente chunga y hace un mierdon enorme, como tiene que ser, para algo es Tomas Tang.

Nota aparte: Proyecto ninjas del infierno se fabricó a partir de una cinta bélica surcoreana donde se ponia de manifiesto como los norcoreanos manipulaban incluso a los niños para la causa comunista. Tomas Tang, al insertar nuevos dialogos y alterar la edición del film original cambió los dialogos conviertiendo a los norcoreanos en ninjas malvados y así el niño de la causa de Pyongyang se convirte en vocal de los ninjas...cosas de Tomas Tang!

Gracias Mil a Aratz y a Aqui Vale Todo por permitirme copiar y pegar ( al puro estilo Filmark) su reseña. Pincha aqui para ver la reseña original y ya de paso echarle un vistazo al blog...porque merece la pena!

Ed Glaser's Ninja The Mission Force Poster

Ed Glaser, owner of DarkMaze.com a company who offers the best bizarre movies around the world is also a nice filmmaker & a fan of IFD stuff. He joined forces with Brad Jones, the guy who brought to the main public Pierre Kirby & his movies throught his webiste The Cinema Snob. Together the produced, scripted, starred & directed NINJA THE MISSION FORCE. A new 10-episode weekly web series produced by Dark Maze Studios, will premiere February 16 on darkmaze.com. Ninja Mission Force is real homage to the films directed by Godfrey Ho for Joseph Lai.

And here, courtesy of Ed Glaser & DarkMaze productions, we are proudly to present the poster of this piece of homage to one of the most underrated directors from Hong Kong:

This great poster that holds the spirit of IFD previous art works has been created by Jeff Nitzberg based on the model of Ninja the Protector.

You may enjoy Ninja the mission forcetrailer in this site clicking here or I recomend you to visit DARKMAZE website for more information clicking here.

On Ed's words Ninja Mission Force is : " a loving homage to the notorious cut-and-paste ninja films of IFD and Filmark like “Ninja the Protector” and “Ninja Terminator”, in which ninja-based storylines are incongruously crowbarred into unrelated films. The series stars Ed Glaser and Brad Jones (of “The Cinema Snob” fame), as well as a host of Hollywood stars through the miracle of archive footage."

Looking Forward February 16th!!!!!