tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68444890775656748352024-03-13T02:24:19.447+01:00Golden Ninja Warrior ChroniclesJesus Manuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16848433594574814130noreply@blogger.comBlogger222125truetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844489077565674835.post-34979295794913213562014-02-05T12:45:00.002+01:002014-02-05T13:07:18.227+01:00Taiwan Black Movies at IFD & Filmark ( Part 26): Ninja Operation Knight & Warrior Unpublished!<div style="text-align: justify;">
My many trips to Hong Kong during the late 90's and the first years of the new century allowed me to collect enough information about IFD & Filmark movies and the people who worked on them. Of course, the spanish video releases were also a very valuable help on this task for unveiling the true story behind these productions. But at one point I found myself in a dead-end situation. If I wanted to continue researching about Lai & Tang productions I needed the help of several people that in some ways were related not to IFD or Filmark but to Hong Kong in general and Hong Kong cinema in particular. And here is where people like Teddy Wong, editor of HKMDB, enters. </div>
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Teddy knows very well my interest on those movies bought by IFD & Filmark and I think he enjoys my uncontrolled reactions of happiness & anxiety when a movie has eventually been discovered or "unmasked". I know the work of this humble blog is just a hobby but offering some information that has never been published is something else...it is like a small discovery of something that was practically impossible few years ago. And that's the feelings I enjoy most!.
So, after many years of being looking for the taiwanese movie used on IFD Ninja Operation: Knight & Warrior, at last, we can say the "Quest" has been accomplished. Ninja Operation: Knight &Warrior has been unveiled!!!!!</div>
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The story of how Ninja Operation: Knight & Warrior was done was explained quite well by Godfrey Ho himself on an interview my friends from Nanarland.com did to him. Please click <a href="http://www.nanarland.com/interview/interview-godfreyhovo-godfrey-ho-en.html" target="_blank">HERE</a> to see the full interview. But we didn't know what movie was behind it. Ninja Operation: Knight and Warrior was done using a taiwanese film titled A GIRL ROGUE. </div>
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A Girl Rogue was directed in 1984 by <a href="http://hkmdb.com/db/people/view.mhtml?id=5681&display_set=eng" target="_blank">Chiu Chan Kwok</a> who has on his credits some important & popular films like Gun n´ Rose directed by Clarence Ford with Andy Lau, Alan Tang & Simon Yam as main stars along others like Leon Lai or Loretta Lee. We also owed Mr Chiu funny movies such as Lucky Seven or several movies of the Kung Fu Kids franchise. But as always, IFD also bought another movie from Mr Chiu that were released under new titles with Ninja fotage. So, checking Chiu Chan Kwok profile on HKMDB we can see he was also the director of the taiwanese movies used on Ninja Showdown. </div>
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As always on these kind of posts, what we need now is finding a copy of A Girl Rogue to check & enjoy it on its original form. Thanks again to the hard and priceless effords of Teddy Wong and special mention here to
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Jesus Manuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16848433594574814130noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844489077565674835.post-59234949579801160362014-01-12T21:04:00.000+01:002014-01-12T21:10:34.754+01:00Thunder of Gigantic Serpent & Ninja Force of Assassins OST<div style="text-align: justify;">
Music scores were also an important fact that made IFD & Filmark movies interesting. Filmark movies used to credit Tom Lee as music composer / supervisor. Well, if you are familiar with Hong Kong life, you may know Tom Lee is chain of shops that sells all kind of music instruments. You can check their website <a href="http://www.tomleemusic.com.hk/stores.php" target="_blank">here</a>.</div>
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In the other hand a guy named Stephen Tsang was the music supervisor at IFD. Opposite to Filmark musicians, Stephan Tsang was a real guy who has been working as music composer in many movies from the 70's to present time, some of his credits including him as sound editor in Jackie Chan's Twin Dragons. It has taken me long time to guess that Stephen Tsang was the IFD name for <a href="http://hkmdb.com/db/people/view.mhtml?id=6573&display_set=eng" target="_blank">Chang Gong-Wa</a> (aka Tsang Kong Wah). </div>
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Any way, Listening the different scores used on the ninja movies produced by IFD, it seems Mr Tsang was very interested on New Age & electronic music.</div>
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But what it makes him very interesting for me is he chose a score titled Isadora from a Spanish group named Azul y Negro ( Blue and Black) for the title credits of Thunder of the Gigantic Serpent.</div>
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Even more interesting is the fact the same score was used on Filmark Ninja Force of Assassins opening credits. So the question is Was "Tom Lee" another name for Mr Stephen Tsang? Surely it was...but he is the only one who can confirm it. Meanwhile we only can enjoy this delicious theme in those movies </div>
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I am glad to know that Spanish musicians were on the mind of the makers of these two insane but greatly funny movies.</div>
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all, I would like to wish you all a Happy New Year and I would also would like
to let you know that this site is not dead. I know I don't update it so
regularly as before but every new information, news, questions and answers,
posters, pics, users contributions etc about IFD & Filmark are being
published in Facebook, so if you want to join it, just click <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/230125803754967/" target="_blank">here</a>, be
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start 2014, uncovering, unmasking and confirming once for all all the wrong
information about the movie used by IFD for Majestic Thunderbolt and of course,
offering the true information about the movie used by IFD for this Thunderbolt
movie. Not so many months ago, someone in the FB group claimed several times
that Majestic Thunderbolt was done using as main body a taiwanese movie titled
Red Rattlesnake. He based his opinion on the HKMD profile of this film.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">At last!...after several years searching it...we found the treasure!</td></tr>
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as he conteacted me by PM, I explained him my doubts because the information
displayed wasn't enough to confirm it. Even if many of the actors were the same
in both movies, it wasn't enough evidence because at certain time many actors
work together in several movies at once. I think there is no need to explain
how prolific HK film industry was 25 years ago.</div>
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there aren't many avaliable picture of <a href="http://hkmdb.com/db/movies/view.mhtml?id=15154&display_set=eng" target="_blank">Red Rattlesnake</a> around so I didn't want
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when a dilemma needs a right solution, I told to Teddy Wong from HKMDB it would
be nice to solve this mistery in the same way we solved the one related to
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very curious that IFD have tons of movies on its catalog but the audience of
these movies mainly prefer these two movies among all the remaining ones. I am
still very surprised about it & I don't really understand it becuase we can
find many crazier & funnier movies on IFD shelves. Anyway, 2 days ago, I
got a messagge from Teddy Wong and he finally can confirm, with no mistakes
that Majestic Thunderbolt was done using Red Rattlesnake as main source.</span></div>
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evidence of this matter can be found on the new pictures you can see here as
well as displayed on Red Rattlesnake profile on<a href="http://hkmdb.com/db/movies/images.mhtml?id=15154&display_set=eng" target="_blank"> HKMDB</a>. Now, as it always
happens on these cases, we only need to find a copy of it...and of course, the
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The pic of the cruxified bloke and the pic below are the proof I needed to find to be 100% sure this was the movie we were looking for!</td></tr>
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YEAR 2014 and keep in touch!</span></div>
Jesus Manuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16848433594574814130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844489077565674835.post-76785029410619043752013-11-03T19:06:00.004+01:002013-11-03T19:06:45.437+01:00Taiwan Black Movies at IFD & Filmark (Part 23): Dressed to Fire<div style="text-align: justify;">
Several years ago, Brad Jones, That guy with glasses, webmaster of Cinema Snob among other popular sites about pop cinema offered some special entries about Pierre Kirby and his movies. He studied them so deeply that he became Pierre Kirby into a well-known action hero of IFD so popular as Richard Harrison or Mike Abbott. </div>
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Pierre Kirby became so popular among fans of Z-grade IFD films that even a website dedicated to him and his career was done. If you want to learn more about who Pierre Kirby was you may visit <a href="http://pierrekirby.toonfur.com/about.htm" target="_blank">Pierre Kirby Lost Action Hero</a> website right now. I have to confess I didn't know this site but I am very happy to see the pics I shared with the webmaster have been published mentioning the original source. So I must thank them for their kindness and of course my gratitude will continue to Edowan Bersma who is still being punished by my questions and demands about his film career in Hong Kong.</div>
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<br />This time, here we have an IFD movie that despite has been difficult to track down, was widely distributed in the States, South American countries such as Argentina or Mexico and in European countries such as as Greece, Turkey and as usual in a special way in Spain...Of course every place where it was distributed gave a different title to this film. <br />
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<br />American Commando 4 Dressed to Fire was the title on its release in Usa, while in the UK the title was simply Dressed to Fired. Later when IFD re-organizated its catalog the film was retitled Advent Commando 3: Dressed to Fire as we can see in the pics above.<br />
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The Spanish release was similar to the UK one and we knew it as Dressed to Fire but there is a BIG difference among the USA or UK release and the spanish version. While in the States and UK the movie was another cut and paste movie with gweiloh actors, the spanish video edition was the original taiwanese movie that IFD had bought for its international distribution. So, we spanish, never enjoyed the adventures of Pierre Kirby & Edowan Bersma but we had the chance to see the original film that was the base for Dressed to Fire.</div>
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The Spanish VHS cover showed some pics of the real movie in the back cover while the front cover showed a ninja woman ( a pic of the ninja girl from the end of Ninja Thunderbolt!!!) to make the audience believe the movie was another ninja film from IFD instead of a gangster drama from Taiwan.</div>
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Dressed to Fire was the international title IFD gave to a Taiwanese movie directed by <a href="http://hkmdb.com/db/people/view.mhtml?id=16058&display_set=eng" target="_blank">Chui Yuk Lung</a> in 1983 and originally titled The Boy from the Dark Street. Jopseph Lai & Tomas Tang bought many of the movies Chui Yuk Lung directed in the late 70's and early 80's and, of course, all of them were released internationally under different titles and as we have seen, those movies were released on their original cut in places such as Spain or with new fotage shot in Hong Kong in many other countries. </div>
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If you are interested in learning more about the original movie that "inspired" Dressed to fire, don't forget to visit HKMDB clicking <a href="http://hkmdb.com/db/movies/view.mhtml?id=11966&display_set=eng" target="_blank">HERE</a></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">After a break of about 6 months we are back to
continue unmasking those taiwanese black movies that were bought by Joseph Lai
& Tomas Tang. Movies that have got the attention of many fans of Asian
cinema who are looking for something else beyond the usual big names and
popular titles. Anyway, these taiwanese movies were, at sometime, very easy to
find in video rental shops all around the world thanks to the distributing
works of IFD & Filmark.</span></div>
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all the ones produced by Tomas Tang, Ninja 8: Warriors of fire would be one of
them. In this early ninja film from Tomas Tang we can see he wanted to offer
something good, he hired nice performers such as Jonathan Isgar for main roles,
director Tommy Cheng Kei Ying and tried to offer decent storyline involving
ninjas, a fotage that took almost the half of the movie. Later, as we know,
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Watching carefully Ninja 8: Warriors of Fire we
realize it was shot back to back, and by the same people, along Ninja Phantom,
Ninja American Warrior and I could dare to say Death Code Ninja. It is
interesting to note Ninja 8: Warriors of Fire & Ninja Phantom were directed
by someone named Bruce Lambert while the other two were directed by Tommy Cheng...so,
was Bruce Lambert a pseudonym for Tommy Cheng? Who knows? Another thing Donald
Kong Do worked as stunt coordinator and supporting role in all of them...so Who
is behind Bruce Lambert a name that was seen in another Filmark movies with
Kong Do on it?</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Ninja 8 Warriors of Fire was done using a taiwanese
movie as main body. The chosen movie this time was a 1981 production directed
by Wang Chun Kuang titled <a href="http://hkmdb.com/db/movies/view.mhtml?id=10465&display_set=eng" target="_blank">Queen Bee</a>. Wang Chun Kuang directed some of the most
popular & well-known gangster films in Taiwan. IFD bought some of his
works and Mr Wang was always credited by IFD as Chester Wang. Please click <a href="http://hkmdb.com/db/people/view.mhtml?id=6933&display_set=eng" target="_blank">here</a>
to check Wang Chun Kuang profile on HKMD.</span></div>
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proffesional killer after her sister is murdered on his wedding day. She asks
the help of a weird teacher who will teach her how take revenge & fight
against even weirder enemies. Of course, in the Filmark version, our heroine
will be trained to be a ninja but for the same reason of the original movie.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I was lucky enough to get a copy of the original Queen
Bee on its original mandarin language. It is a pity it has no subtitles but it
seems Filmark crew didn't changed too much the original dialogs. They kept many
of the lines untouched just changing some lines only to match with the ninja
fotage. So, as it happened in Fierce Lady ( the movie used in Ninja Knight
Thunder fox), they just dubbed into English the original lines.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">What it surprised me more of Queen Bee was its
soundtrack. It hasn't a chinese score or music from Hollywood hits of its time but the main theme
of George A Romero's Dawn of the Dead composed and performed by italian group I
Goblin. This same theme was used the same year Queen Bee was produced by Bruno
Mattei on his crazy movie Hell of the living dead ( aka Zombie creeping flesh).There
is no doubts I Goblin did a piece of music that could be used in any kind of
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In 2009, Joy Sales released a bunch of Taiwanese films
on VCD in Hong Kong. There is another one titled Queen
Bee but althought it is Taiwanese as well, it is not the one by Wang Chun Kuang
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I still remember Easter of 2008, it was about that date when I first contacted by email & then by phone with Mike Abbott. I was tremedously happy and I felt myself very lucky because I had been talking with one of my childhood favourite movie villains...during the late 80's I have been watching most of IFD movies he played and also the ones Mike Abbott starred in Indonesia. So, I can't explain with words how happy I was when I knew Mike Abbott was in the other side of the telephone line!!!!</div>
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Then, of course, the communication among us continued and eventually we met in Hong Kong. There are a lot of priceless memories of conversations, jokes, meetings...etc. Five years have passed since then and now, it is Easter again and while I was searching some videos on YouTube, I have found the following one.</div>
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This video-phone interview has been done by the guys from <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/shitcasecinema" target="_blank">Shitcasecinema </a>and that happiness memories have just come back to me when I listened Mike Abbott giving to the interviewer many of the same answers he gave me 5 years back!
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I won't get tired to repeat Mike Abbott is one of the nicest people I have ever met in my life. A gentleman and a good-hearted giant who tought I was Danny De Vito's twin brother the very first time we met in Central Station in Hong Kong. </div>
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It is a pity we can't see Mike Abbott more oftenly in Hong Kong movies, specially right now when many western actors are again in front of the camera like in the old good days. </div>
Jesus Manuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16848433594574814130noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844489077565674835.post-13504612857631967582013-03-23T12:00:00.001+01:002013-03-23T12:12:56.738+01:00Ninja The Mission Force is back on DVD...The Complete 2nd Season!<div style="text-align: justify;">
Ninja the Mission Force series was undoubtly the very best online serie of 2012 and of course the very very best and true homage to IFD & Filmark ninja movies. Now Ed Glaser's Dark Maze brings us again the happiness & the feeling we got while we enjoyed IFD movies.</div>
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The second season is directly released on DVD containing all the episodes plus juicy extras as the first one.</div>
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Here we have the trailer that is simply superb, containing remains of Ninja Thunderbolt ( those priceless roller ninjas & post apocaliptic car), Bruce Lee fights back from the grave & many more...then we also have the beautiful & gorgeous Allison Pregler along with the indescribable Brad Jones plus the friendly Ed Glaser as Gordon & his nice videotaped wife and even Bud Spencer along Lee Van Cleef & Sho Kosugi "The Ninja!!!!! </div>
Her we can enjoy the great first episode that maintains the spirit of the first season and even goes beyond on its IFD homage presenting Gordon in a kind of "special appearance" as Richard Harrison did in Golden Ninja Warrior or Ninja Champion.
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And if you think this is not wonderful enought and IFD full-lengh movie is included: A widescreen version of NINJA THE PROTECTOR, the movie that inspired the magnificent Ninja The Mission Force.
This is what we condiser a true real gift!
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The title of this entry it is just the only one I could have given because these days I got another personal goal since I started to investigate about IFD & Filmark. One of the most important one was when on May 2010 I got a good bunch of unreleased or barely released IFD movies on DVD from a legal distributor in South Africa. You may check it <a href="http://goldenninjawarriorchronicles.blogspot.com.es/2010/05/turning-impossible-into-possible.html" target="_blank">HERE</a>. I also have commented many times my love for Ninja Knight Thunderfox & the taiwanese movie used on it, you may check also <a href="http://goldenninjawarriorchronicles.blogspot.com.es/search/label/Ninja%20Knight%20Thunderfox" target="_blank">HERE</a> & <a href="http://goldenninjawarriorchronicles.blogspot.com.es/search/label/A%20Fierce%20Lady" target="_blank">HERE</a>.</div>
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Today, Thanks to Toby Russell, a person who has been working on Asian films since he was a teenager & a great guy who has released many great movies throught his Eastern Heroes & other labels, sent me the original movie used on Ninja Knight ThunerFox: A Fierce Lady. A movie that I have been looking for years since I saw the IFD edited version in 1990 for first time.</div>
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Just imagine how nervous & anxious I was when the postman delivered the package to me!!!...The moments before I opened it & I played were priceless, I was like a child waiting to open his new toys! So, eventually, my dream of watching the original film became true...and now the best is coming...</div>
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While I was researching information about this taiwanese movie along with Teddy Wong from HKMDB, we find out the art cover & the title, A Fierce Lady, but the English titled displayed on screen on the copy Toby Russell sent me we can see the English title was Lover & Killer.</div>
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And, and, and...the it includes English subtitles!!!!....so the experience of watching it, was a real pleasure since I could follow the original storyline and this fact delivered me another surprise... The new edited version with new fotage starring Mike Abbott & Marko Ritchie just follow the same original storyline...and even the dialogs are exacly the same in both versions. IFD just added the new fotage & adapted it to the original one without any changes!</div>
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The only changed made by IFD was the music of the OST, while IFD, as always, used a synthesizer electronic music and in this case, a part of Nighmare on Elm Street at the end battle between Mike Abbott & Marko Ritchie, the original taiwanese cut just "vampirizes" the music from movies such as Death Wish 2 for the opening titles and some other music from other american hits during the running time.</div>
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Well, the bad news is that Lover & Killer is a very cut version for the local market. Every erotic frame has been edited out, even kisses...also some bloody action was also cut. Thankfully, the IFD version contains all the gory & erotic moments & since the dialogs & story line is the same, a fully uncut version could be possible edited...some day...</div>
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Once again, Trillions thanks to Toby Russell for his kind help and unlimited thanks for making my dream have come true! </div>
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I like IFD movies, I love them and I have a special love for the ones starred by my good friend Mike Abbott. When I was a kid I just love ninja movies, then I learnt how to enjoy IFD & Filmark movies and eventually felt in love with them when I learnt how they were made & who made them possible. So, I am always looking for new details, information or whatever that can help me to fully enjoy these movies.</div>
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One of the problems we must face when we find an IFD ninja movie is the big ammount of different aka titles given to these movies around the world. For instance Filmark produced Ninja Phantom Hero Usa was re-edited & re-titled in the US as Ninja Empire after it was released under its original title but this new edition was shorter since the end battle was cut among other parts...but then we also find that IFD's Ninja Knight Thunderfox was also released in the US as Ninja Empire...<br />
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The US edition of Ninja Knight Thunderfox, retitled Ninja Empire was also a new re-edition of the original film and as it happened with Ninja Phanthom Hero Usa, some scenes were shortened or just cut...but what the US censors cut on Ninja Knight Thunderfox? Just the nudity scenes!!!...</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In Germany, Ninja Knight Thunderfox was also cut but retitled as Bionic Ninja. There is another Filmark movie titled Bionic ninja.</td></tr>
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Sometime ago, someone uploaded Ninja knight Thunderfox Us edition to Youtube claiming it was the full movie. At that time, I was trying to find out the original taiwanese movie used on it so I decided to watch it again and...imagine my face when I see this version has been cut for more than 10 minutes.<br />
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What I don't understand is WHY the nude scenes were cut. The censorship label of this movie around the world shows it is a movie for adult audience, so cutting those scenes is ridiculous. The full movie is about a prostitution ring and how our heroes destroy it...so what's the use of cutting those erotic shots while all the beating to the women are fully uncut?????<br />
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Anyway, if you have a copy of Ninja Thunderfox it is cut, here I offer you the deleted scenes that were totally uncut in the spanish VHS tape.<br />
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Well, now, I am looking forward my copy of the original taiwanese cut of Fierce Lady, the movie used by Godfrey Ho to design his Ninja Knight Thunderfox & check if these scenes were also seen in the local version or they were edited out as it happened in the US version. I will let all you know about it. I promise!</div>
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Back to the early 80's it seems IFD catalog was an endless one if we compare the ammounts of movies they released around the world to the limited catalog they offer today. One of the most interesting facts is most of the movies that IFD has no longer on its catalog are the taiwanese ones. I can just imagine two ways for this matter: IFD have not longer the copyrights of those movies or they were just lost during the fire that destroyed IFD & Filmark offices in Garley Gallery in Yau Ma Tei back in 1996.</div>
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These days, my elder son is sick & I have to stay with him full time at home, so, I decided to put in orderm my movies storage room & check damaged or forgotten old VHS that I haven't transferred into DVD yet. Among them I found a forgotten gem from IFD that it still remains as a rare gem from Joseph Lai's company since, to my information and if I am not wrong, it is a very underrated film titled Survival of a Dragon.</div>
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Watch out, Survival of <span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>A</b></span> Dragon. Don't get confused with another film starred by Larry Lee originally titled The Thunderkick directed by <a href="http://hkmdb.com/db/people/view.mhtml?id=3770&display_set=eng" target="_blank">Teddy Yip</a>, a regular face on Samo Hung's movies, that later was re-titled <a href="http://hkmdb.com/db/movies/view.mhtml?id=9900&display_set=eng" target="_blank">Survival of the Dragon</a> that also included in the cast famous faces like Bolo Yeung, James Nam or Yukio Someno.</div>
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The movie released by IFD,<a href="http://hkmdb.com/db/movies/view.mhtml?id=14713&display_set=eng" target="_blank"> Survival of a Dragon</a> is a 1981 taiwanese production originally titled Hero From the Time Tunnel directed by <a href="http://hkmdb.com/db/people/view.mhtml?id=22754&display_set=eng" target="_blank">Lam Ying</a> who scripted, among other nice kung fu films, a favourite of mine titled <a href="http://hkmdb.com/db/movies/view.mhtml?id=10036&display_set=eng" target="_blank">The romantic double rings</a>. Lam Ying was also the director of one of those taiwanese women in prison movies that were also a "nice" subgenre for rottenminded people like me. Among those movies there is one that I like specially titled <a href="http://hkmdb.com/db/movies/view.mhtml?id=13132&display_set=eng" target="_blank">Escape at Dawn</a> </div>
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Survival of a dragon was starred by <a href="http://hkmdb.com/db/people/view.mhtml?id=4728&display_set=eng" target="_blank">Alan Lau Tak-Hoi</a> whom we have previously seen in some other movies distributed by IFD such as Pink Force Commando or as co-star with Elsa Yeung in Nude Body Case in Tokyo.<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vQZ2TKZZ9pk/USS5QXPRVOI/AAAAAAAAC7Q/7E0YxVaEzyM/s1600/vlcsnap-00003.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div>
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Alan Lau's co-stars in this movie were actress Lee Lit who also starred a crazy movie titled Lunatic Frog Women ( aka Virgin Commandos), <a href="http://hkmdb.com/db/people/view.mhtml?id=3465&display_set=eng" target="_blank">Ngai Ping Ngo</a>, the gaylish gangster in Bruce Lee's movies and <a href="http://hkmdb.com/db/people/view.mhtml?id=3957&display_set=eng" target="_blank">Hung Chiu Hung</a>, a guy who decided to be known internationally as Squall Hung (!!!!!!!) and whose movie career is quite short, probably a gangster who decided to try his luck in the movie industry.</div>
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Survival of A Dragon is a crazy movie about a reporter girl who is investigating about some gangsters and because of a electricity problem inside of an abandoned mine she is back on time to the middle age, then as it happened in Yuen Biao's The Iceman Cometh, the kung fu warriors will come to the present time & fight the gangsters!!!!!!</div>
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Till now, I Just knew the spanish VHS release of this movie, but I have been able to find some information that Survival of A Dragon was also released in some other countries and territories!</div>
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Ninja Showdown has been the last IFD ninja movie to enter in my private collection. While most of IFD cut & paste movie were released in Spain on tape, the ones that never got their release have been very hard for me to get them. I am still trying to hunt several ones that it seems were never released on domestic formats.</div>
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Ninja Showdown is other of those bunch of ninja movies supposely directed by Joseph Lai. These movies were not directed by Mr Lai but by several action directors such as John Cheung, Ridley Tsui and their stuntment groups. They were done when the demand of this kind of movies were at its peak and IFD people hardly have time to prepare them with a minimus care.</div>
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Ninja Showdown was done using a 1983 taiwanese production titled <a href="http://hkmdb.com/db/movies/view.mhtml?id=12069&display_set=eng" target="_blank">Tian Zhuang A Ge</a>, also known as The Return, a movie that was co-directed by taiwanese superb director <a href="http://hkmdb.com/db/people/view.mhtml?id=4475&display_set=eng" target="_blank">Chu Yen Ping</a> who made some of the very best & craziest movies ever done in the world. I personally enjoyed his vision of gangster movies with Requital or Island on Fire. He was also the man who made the most popular movies ever played by Elsa Yeung: Golden Queen Commando & Pink Force Commando.</div>
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Chu Yen Ping was assisted directing Tian Zhuang A Ge by Chiu Chan Kwok who seems to be his most diligent student sincce Chiu also directed some crazily funny movies such as Lucky Seven and Lucky Seven 2 and he worked in some movies that were directly influenced by Chu's visuals such as Gun and Rose that weird movie starred by Alan Tang & Andy Lau.</div>
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Tian Zhuang A Ge was starred by <a href="http://hkmdb.com/db/people/view.mhtml?id=4477&display_set=eng" target="_blank">Tattoer Ma</a>, maybe the most popular taiwanese actor who has ever portrayed a gangster there and internationally launched by IFD and C<a href="http://hkmdb.com/db/people/view.mhtml?id=31881&display_set=eng" target="_blank">hoi Wing Wa</a> the same actor who played in the taiwanese movie used in Ninja Hunt.</div>
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Recently Tian Zhuang A Ge was released on VCd in Taiwan & it can be purchase throught usual online shops. It is indeed a good chance to get it & understand how they made movies not only in Taiwan but at IFD.</div>
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I have to recognice it: I am very lazyyyyyyy about updating the blog lately. I have many entries ready to be post but I don't publish them, I am getting bored of these entries about Taiwan Black movies at IFD & Filmark but I should publish all the information I have been collecting before I should start other topics about IFD/ Filmark, their movies & the people who made them possible...but I say again, I am very lazy & other matters need most of my free time...</div>
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Anyway, after all my stupid excuses have been explained, I have to finish this entry with another Taiwanese Black movie that has been "unmasked" after it was used by IFD in the making of Ninja Hunt, one of the latter movies Richard Harrison made IFD in 1986 before he left the company & Hong Kong.</div>
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Ninja Hunt is one of those ninja movies from IFD I haven't enjoy very much due to several reasons. It belongs to that group of movies supposely directed by Joseph Lai ( such as Ninja Kill, Ninja Commandments or Ninja Against Cobra among other titles) that just contains 5 to10 minutes of uninspired ninja action usually choreograhped by <a href="http://hkmdb.com/db/people/view.mhtml?id=4237&display_set=eng" target="_blank">John Cheung.</a> who was also probably tired of working for IFD, or very stressed, or just wanted to finish as soon as possible.</div>
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Ninja Hunt was made using a 1983 produced taiwanese crime drama titled <a href="http://hkmdb.com/db/movies/view.mhtml?id=12377&display_set=eng" target="_blank">Wrong Step</a> directed by Tsui Mei (aka Chui Mooi) whose filmography only contains this title. Then, Wrong Step was choreographed by <a href="http://hkmdb.com/db/people/view.mhtml?id=15069&display_set=eng" target="_blank">Lam Gwong Wing</a> a well-known face from some important taiwanese martial arts films.</div>
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The Spanish VHS was designed just following the original design of Eagle Leung the publicity artist at IFD. The most curious fact of this work is the painted Stuart Smith was also used in Spain in several artcovers for some taiwanese martial arts films that have nothing to do with IFD or Ninja Hunt. </div>
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We finished 2012 with an entry about Taiwan Black Movies at IFD & Filmark, and we open 2013 with the same topic: The gangster movies produced in Taiwan during the late 70's & distributed worldwide under several and different titles by Tomas Tang & Joseph Lai.</div>
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It is curious many of those movies are not longer on IFD catalog, maybe dued to copyright issues or whatever reasons that only IFD people know. It is also curious that the only source/ way to enjoy these movies are the ones released by IFD & Filmark since many of the original films negatives were destroyed after their commercial lifes on theatres.</div>
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As usual, the edited version of Final Mission Final was released in Spain during the video boom at the middle 80's. The first released used the original IFD artcover where we see Champ Wang holding a big gun plus some fights scenes around.</div>
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The movie should have been a video hit because years later Final Mission Final was again released on tape in Spain holding the same title but a different artcover that tried to cheat the audience. The cast and other details of this taiwanese production were erased from the front cover.</div>
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First of all is its original taiwanese title. I haven't been able to find it out. Recently I got an original taiwanese cut of this film on widescreen that includes chinese & english credits of the stars & staff but it starts after the original title has passed.</div>
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And eventually, the director Hsu Yu Lung <a href="http://hkmdb.com/db/people/view.mhtml?id=16058&display_set=eng" target="_blank">(aka Tsui Yuk Lung or Chui Yuk Lung)</a> who was always credited by IFD as Steve Lung in all his works released by IFD.</div>
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Then finally...my own confussion trying to identify the real title of this film. I mean, I am trying my best to identify the original title of this movie but as I said above I haven't been successful yet. But Final Mission Final is credited on HKMDB as an aka title for <a href="http://hkmdb.com/db/movies/view.mhtml?id=15013&display_set=eng" target="_blank">Who Knows About Me</a>, the movie I identified as main source for <a href="http://goldenninjawarriorchronicles.blogspot.com.es/2012/04/taiwan-black-movies-at-ifd-filmark-part_29.html" target="_blank">IFD GUNS TO HEAVEN</a>.</div>
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Right now, I don't know what to think about this film, but I would bet my neck Who knows about me is not Final Mission Final but Gun to Heavens. There are some snapshots that are exactly the same. So, the artcovers were wrong & used pics from other movies or I am totally nuts ( there are countless probabilities of this...anyway).</div>
Jesus Manuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16848433594574814130noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844489077565674835.post-26552608859464703512012-12-31T12:58:00.002+01:002012-12-31T12:58:20.911+01:00Taiwan Black Movies at IFD & Filmark (part 17): Raging Queen<div style="text-align: justify;">
Yet, another entry dedicated to the taiwanese gangster movies released by IFD & Filmark before 2012 ended. I think the blog is becoming a bit boring lately because I have just been focusing it on a single subject, the taiwanese black movies, for the last months. But in the other hand, I am trying my best to identify so many original movies as possible because it is a very good way to enjoy & understand IFD & Filmark movies. I got tired of reading or listening comments such as " IFD ninja movies are the bottom of the barrel ninja movies"...well, once you know how they were "produce", you may change your mind about them and you might realize they were not Ninja movies but gangster movies with new ninja scenes...and then, if you have a minimum interest on rare cinema you will know many of those movies used in the new edition were a portrait of the taiwanese society of that time...and many of those movies are gone forever...</div>
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IFD & Filmark got their golden age selling their catalog in economic rising countries during the early & middle 80's. Countries like Spain, Italy, Portugal and Greece ( that now are in coming back to the Third World) were main markets for the cheap products Lai & Tang offered. Unluckily many of those copies are also lost and they are even gone from IFD catalog.</div>
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When Tomas Tang left Joseph Lai and he founded Filmark, he just followed his ex-pal steps. He bought a bunch of Korean, Thai, Filipino & Taiwanese movies and then some of them were edited with new fotage shot in Hong Kong and some of them were just re-dubbed into English & released in their original form but just making the audience think they were Martial arts movies.</div>
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Joseph Lai & Tomas Tang shared the movies they bought together during the Asso Asia time, they had previously bought some movies from director Cheung Chi- Chiu ( aka Richard Chen) such as Deadly Silver Angels or Rainbow force that were released by IFD, but Filmark also kept some movies from that package & released it in the same form. One of those movies Filmark kept was Handsome Vagabond.</div>
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Of course, Raging Queen wasn't the Spanish title when it was released on tape, the spanish distributors added another title and eventually Handsome Vagabond arrived to my home as Codigo Mortal ( Mortal Code)</div>
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For Further information about this film, please check it at <a href="http://hkmdb.com/db/movies/view.mhtml?id=11761&display_set=eng" target="_blank">HKMB</a></div>
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2012 is going to be finished soon, I can't tell how happy I am because it has been a horrible year for me. Too many & difficult personal problems came & I had to handle them so good as I could. Anyway, apart from that, it has been a good year for this humble blog. Many good people have helped me to continue this "assigment" of uncover the original movies used by Tomas Tang & Joseph Lai on the films they distributed about 25 years ago. </div>
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A kind of revival of IFD & Filmark movies has been felt in the last years. The fact is more & more websites pay attention to these movies & the people who made them possible. The success of Ninja The Mission Force series is a clear evidence about it. And then, this interest on IFD & Filmark movies is also opening new backdoors that let me search for more "fresh" information about the original movies that were used/ distributed by Tang & Lai.</div>
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One of these movies was Fighting Duel of Death that maybe is one of the Taiwanese movies with more aka titles of its kind because this 1981 production was also known as Don't Take the Wrong Way or Make a Right Decition and different chinese titles as well. So, Tomas Tang decided to be more creative & titled it Angel of Fire for its international distribution<br />
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Buuuuuuuut, the Spanish distributors were beyond Tomas Tang creative team and retitled the movie Emboscada Criminal (Criminal Ambush) for the spanish language market & even added ninjas in the new art cover. As usual, they tried to make us think we would find a martial arts film instead of a gangster drama.</div>
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If you are a die-hard ninja movies fan, you will easily notice the two ninjas in the cover are just a drawing of a scene from the original American Ninja film with Michael Dudikoff on the left facing the Black Star Ninja starred by Tadashi Yamashita on the right.</div>
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Jesus Manuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16848433594574814130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844489077565674835.post-75154249560435015892012-12-26T17:35:00.000+01:002012-12-26T17:35:04.864+01:00Robert de Ni...... nja<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Uno de mis blogs favoritos de toda la red es sin duda <a href="http://aquivaletodo.blogspot.com.es/" target="_blank">AQUI VALE TODO</a> que conducen Naxo Fiol, Victor Olid y Arazt Juanes, los desaprensivos que nos han obsequiado con ese libro maravilloso que es <a href="http://aquivaletodo.blogspot.com.es/search?q=Malas+pero+divertidas+Raima+Ediciones" target="_blank">Malas pero Divertidas</a> ( esperando quedo de una segunda parte o mejor aún, de un especie de malas pero divertidas pero sobre cine español u oriental!!!!)...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ya tengo calado a este trio calavera del cine popular: Arazt es el que más tira de cine oriental, pero del "güeno", Naxo es el del terror y los monstruillos y Victor es el que tiene un gusto mas afín al mio propio...le gusta tó!... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">De vez en cuando <a href="http://aquivaletodo.blogspot.com.es/" target="_blank">Aqui Vale Todo</a> publica reseñas sobre las pelis de Tomas Tang, Godfrey Ho y/ o la IFD. Ni que decir tiene, que cada post dedicado a estos señores son los que más me gustan y no solo porque haya poca y mala información sobre estas pelis o sus hacedores en castellano, no, es que las reseñas de Aqui Vale Todo sobre las pelis de Ho y compañia no se limitan a reirse de ellas como casi siempre ocurre, sino que además añaden información o detalles que normalmente se pasan por alto. Y por eso mismo pedí permiso para cortar y pegar el texto y las fotos cortesia de Naxo Fiol que a continuacion siguen: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"El regreso del
ninja" está dirigida por Jimmy Wang y protagonizada por Jimmy Wang Yu
(¿ese Yu de más, significa que es el primo del director o él que se lo
ha puesto para diferenciar sus tareas de actor con las de director?) y
John Laum. El caso es que no la he visto... ni tengo intención alguna de
hacerlo. A mi las pelis de ninjas que me gustan son las que sale Sho
Kosugi o las que producía Joseph Lai. Pero ya está.<br />Sin embargo, el otro día localicé su carátula y vi algo que me llamó poderosamente la atención. Veánla....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">¿Lo han notado?. ¿Sí?. ¿No?. Bueno, si la respuesta es negativa, ahora miren esta foto...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">¿Qué?, ¿mejor?.
Pues sí, creo que no desvarío si afirmo sin rubor que el ilustrador de
la caratula de "El regreso del ninja" tomó esta imagen de Robert De Niro
en "El Cazador" como inspiración para poner medio-rostro a su ninja
protagonista. <br />Para estar más seguros, pongámoslas junticas...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Descarao,
¡hasta la sangre de la ceja!. El caso es que no deja de resultar curioso
y, en cierto modo, premonitorio, viendo cómo ha ido evolucionando la
carrera del prestigioso actor los últimos años, aceptando protagonizar
toda clase de productos así como más de segunda (¡incluso una española!)
que poco lustre aportaban a su envidiable curriculum. Dicho de otro
modo, que como siga así, no resultaría tan descabellado encontrarnos a
De Niro haciendo de ninja... y ¡para "Asylum"! toma ya. Sin compasión.<br />Últimamente
han caído en mis manos muchas caratulas de estas sorprendentes,
repletas de trapicheos sucios y demostraciones de poca vergüenza que, a
buen seguro, harán las delicias de todos ustedes. Así que sigan
visitándonos. En breve, more.</span> </div>
Jesus Manuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16848433594574814130noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844489077565674835.post-65525686296599168182012-12-07T20:55:00.000+01:002012-12-07T20:55:30.553+01:00Taiwan Black Movies at IFD & Filmark (part 15): Escape to Freedom<div style="text-align: justify;">
I wasn't sure about including this film in these entries about Taiwanese Black Movies released by IFD & Filmark because it is not a "real" gangster movie but finally I decided to do it because Escape to Freedom was starred by most of the people who developed the subgenre at the time.
Another reason I have dediced to post an entry about this movie is because Escape to Freedom is one of those "lost" or missed movies from IFD catalog without any clue like manay of their taiwanese films...remember the Thunderbolt saga, they were the most popular ones but they are not longer avaliable from IFD.</div>
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Escape to Freedom was a 1982 production starring Elsa Yeung ( one of the IFD Queens...and it is quite possible she doesn't know about it) & Tien Peng among other popular taiwanese actors. The movie changes the gang wars in the streets of Taipei for a national adventure against Japanese invaders... This anti-japanese war movies were also a subgenre itself in Taiwan, like the Gangster movies.</div>
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The movie was bought by IFD in released under several different titles. The IFD first official title for this production was Scape to High Risks but then it was also released on tape in countries like Spain as Highnoon Scape.
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The movie was directed by <a href="http://www.blogger.com/Ching%20Gong">Ching Gong</a>, who was an excellent director & scriptwriter at Shaw Bros. Some personal favourite of mine are his The Criminal series released & produced by Shaw Bros during the middle 70's. Those works outlined what the Taiwanese Black Movies would be in a near future.</div>
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The producer of Escape to Freedom was <a href="http://hkmdb.com/db/people/view.mhtml?id=5142&display_set=eng" target="_blank">Yang Teng Kuei</a> who was also the man who made possible many of Danny Lee's direct to video police adventures such as Shoot to kill & all those bloody and ultraviolent gangster thrillers that just were a logic continuation of the style and features of the original taiwanese black movies. </div>
Jesus Manuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16848433594574814130noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844489077565674835.post-81224510471615970962012-12-05T20:07:00.005+01:002012-12-05T20:12:36.990+01:00Platoon The Warriors on YouTube...<div style="text-align: justify;">
I didn't know till now that Youtube is full of users who upload tons of full-lengh movies into their accounts...I was used to see clips from all kind of movies but this thing of uploading full movies has really surprised me. But I have to say my heart is divided into two parts because of this....First, I am happy because we are given the chance to watch many rare movies from every corner of the world. I have seem movies that are not avaliable on DVD, VCD or VHS outside third-world countries or they are just collectors pieces...but in the other hand, I don't agree about uploading copyrighted movies...I consider myself a collector, I enjoy cinema & I think I have to pay for a work other people have done for my own entertainment. It is fair...You make a work, you develope your owns ideas, you have the right to get your benefit...I hate piracy & I despise pirates...</div>
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Platoon The Warriors is a copyrighted feature from IFD that is still on their catalog...someone has uploaded it to YouTube. The source is an English-dubbed language VHS from Greece, since the film has not known DVD release, I have decided to include it here, just in case some reader hasn't seen it yet. Anyway, I encourage you to purchase legal releases...</div>
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Platoon The Warriors, as you may know, was directed by Philip Ko who used as main body a 1984 filipino production titled Diegong Bayong, starred by filipino star Anthony Malonzo. Diegong Bayong is a powerful, bloody & gritty action drama that was nicely edited by Philip Ko. Platoon the Warriors is a personal favourite of mine.
Oh, I also found in Youtube the original Spanish trailer. I have to say, I had never seen it before on any spanish release...& I like it a lot!!!!!...</div>
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Naked Revenge was the title IFD gave to the international release of a taiwanese gangster movie in the early 80's. It was another of those movies that flooded the spanish video rental shops trying to pass as a kung fu flick among the avid audience who just wanted to see chinese fellas kicking asses!...but once you played it, you didn't find an average kung fu movie but a modern day gangter melodrama...</div>
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I remember when I first rented it with my younger brother, he didn't like a bit and after 10 0r 15 minutes he left the room inmersed in a deep ocean of boredom...I was not!...I like it...I enjoyed the roughness & raw violence displayed...I was ( I still am) an easy-to-get-happy audience.</div>
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Opposite to many IFD/ Filmark titles that were quite easy to find on video in Spain, Naked Revenge was a hard to find one. In fact, the copy I own is the only one I have ever seen & I never ever found another copy since I decided to collect all IFD & Filmark stuff...</div>
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Then, during the Golden Age of IFD, when Joseph Lai made lots of money in the international video markets, Naked Revenge was re-edited, re-dubbed & was added new scenes shot in Hong Kong starred by IFD post-Richard Harrison regulars Paul John Stanners, Brent Gilbert and even Mark Houghton & retitled American Commando: Naked Revenge...years later, was again retitled as Advent Commando 6: Naked Revenge.</div>
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Advent Commando 6: Naked Revenge, the new re-edition starred by some of our favourite gweilohs was never released in Spain & I ignore if it was ever released in some other countries. I have searched for a copy but I haven't gone a clue about it.<br />
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Well, Naked Revenge, as we stated above was the IFD title for a taiwanese movie originally titled The Reformed Gambler, a 1981 production directed by <a href="http://hkmdb.com/db/people/view.mhtml?id=16058&display_set=eng" target="_blank">Chui Yuk-Lung</a> who was always credited by IFD as Steve Lung in many movies.</div>
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The original cast of The Reformed Gambler includes Tattoer Ma, Champ Wang & Paul Chang and other taiwanese popular actors such as Lung Fei, Chen Hung-Lieh & Chan Sing...<br />
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Oh, Cirio H. Santiago directed in 1985 a film titled Naked Vengeance that was released in some countries as Naked Revenge...obviously it has nothing to do with the IFD film. Jesus Manuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16848433594574814130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844489077565674835.post-53350738054580164702012-11-30T22:35:00.001+01:002012-11-30T22:35:12.245+01:00Taiwan Black Movies at IFD & Filmark ( Part 13): King of Prodigal Boxers<div style="text-align: justify;">
The same year IFD released its first Thunderbolt saga movie, Mission Thunderbolt, starred by Hong Kong big stars such as Chen Kuan Tai & Chan Wai Man, another series of taiwanese movies on its original cut were also released. It is very curious how IFD chose some of those movies to released them with new added fotage but some others were just thrown into the international markets on their original cut...just the credits were changed into English language.</div>
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One of those movies was King of the Prodigal Boxers that it was also starred by Chen Kuan Tai & Chan Wai Man. The film was just another taiwanese gangster & melodrama film with Chen Kuan Tai playing a kickboxer who goes to Hong Kong seeking revenge against the people who murdered his family. Nothing new under the stars...</div>
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IFD marketing department was maybe the funniest place in the office. King of the Prodigal Boxers was the new fancy title for a 1983 production originally titled <a href="http://hkmdb.com/db/movies/view.mhtml?id=6477&complete_credits=1&display_set=eng" target="_blank">Deadly Duo</a>. A Hong Kong-Taiwanese movie directed by Yu Yin-Chuen who, based on HKMD, never ever directed another film. Among the cast, we found interesting performers who made very interesting & bloody gangsters movies in Hong Kong & Taiwan such as Lily Lan Yu Li who starred the taiwanese movie seen in Ninja Dragon, Wong Goon-Hung ( aka Champ Wang) & even Ho Pak Kwong who seems to appear in 99 % of the movies produced in Hong Kong at that time.</div>
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King of the Prodigal Boxers was released in Spain twice, as many IFD movies during the video boom. The spanish title was La Piel de Un Asesino ( The skin of a killer), a title that brings to our mind Alain Delon's film titled Pou la peau d'un flic ( For the skin of a cop), a movie that was released in Spain during that time too.</div>
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The first Spanish VHS art cover was very similar to the original IFD artwork with Chen Kuan Tai & Champ Wang faces on the poster plus a knife cutting a finger in a yakuza style, then the back page show some still pics from the movie...</div>
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But the second Spanish release of King Of the Prodigal Boxers was done in the middle 80's when Cannon Films released Michael Winner's Death Wish 3 starring Charles Bronson & the fourth installment of Rocky & the still pics from the back page are from another different movie...then the spanish distributors designed a very fancy artwork who missed both movies!!!...in this case the spanish distributors went beyond IFD!!!!</div>
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Jesus Manuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16848433594574814130noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844489077565674835.post-81333243677507670692012-11-29T19:57:00.004+01:002012-11-29T19:57:54.283+01:00We are back to action...<div style="text-align: justify;">
Dear friends & followers ( if I still have some!)...four months have passed since the last entry in this humble blog. These four month have been full of personal problems that kept me away from posting. I simply was not in the mood for it, but keeping the blog temporarily closed hasn't been a waste of time. During all these months, I have been collecting more movies, pics, artworks & searching for more information & details that may help me ( and the people who read this) to understand better the works of Joseph Lai, Tomas Tang, Godfrey Ho, Philip Ko and other great people from the Hong Kong movie industry.</div>
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In the following days, I would like to finish the entries dedicated to the Taiwanese movies bought/ edited/ released by IFD & Filmark. I still have some raw material for some entries. Once the taiwanese stage was over, I would like to do the same with the Thai movies, just because good friends of mine such as Regis Madec from <a href="http://www.thaiworldview.com/" target="_blank">THAI WORLD VIEW</a> & Jub Khun have been kind enough to help me to identify ALL & EACH thai movie ever bought & released by Tang & Lai, so, I think it is quite interesting to let all the people know those titles, specially the ones that still canl be found on VCD & DVD in some Thai-movies online shops.</div>
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Thanks to All a lot for your support!</div>
Jesus Manuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16848433594574814130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844489077565674835.post-31662572881905798982012-07-22T13:12:00.001+02:002012-07-22T13:15:46.511+02:00Ninja Operation :Knight & Warrior on Widescreen<div style="text-align: justify;">
This blog was born just in order to give some credit to the movies produced & distributed by IFD / Filmark, Godfrey Ho, Joseph Lai & Tomas Tang among others. I was tired of reading & listening these movies were the "bottom of the barrell", "the worst films ever" and similar expressions said by people who generally don't know how those movies were done or by people who watch Ninja Terminator looking for Arnie....said in a different way, we can't watch 55 days in Pekin expecting to see a Wong Fei Hung movie...so, we can't see an IFD ninja movie expecting to see a ninja movie like American ninja saga or anything related to classic Ninjitsu or a classic japanese ninja films. Once this premise if fully understood & digested IFD & Filmark movies are nice cinematic experiences of exploit cinema since they contains all the ingredients for a perfect "ninja salad": ninjas, kung fu, erotic scenes, stolen music, asian actors from different countries, a very exotic if not a lost film from the southeast asia,etc etc..</div>
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This is in my opinion the first & most importat fact why IFD & Filmark films are so unfamous but there is a second reason. Because of the video boom most of those films were edited to be seen on TV, so the different releases were edited on horrible FULLSCREEN and that effect makes the movie less dynamic, we lose a lot of details & in many ways it is not confortable to see a film on that format.</div>
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To prove what I said above, I would like you to check what David Pinnegar nicely reccomended in his nice message: A WIDESCREEN VERSION of the very best ninja movie ever produced by IFD Ninja Operation: Knight & Warrior ( aka Silent Assassin). This film deserves to be watched on its widescreen format to apreciate that peope at IFD knew their duties.</div>
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Fully Uncut & Widescreen version of NINJA OPERATION: KNIGHT & WARRIOR. IFD Property, Please respect the Coypright laws</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i> Special thanks to Emperor Ing for supplying me with the English audio source for this video; without him this wouldn't have been possible.
Yes, it's the film restoration that the entire world has been waiting for: a complete version of Godfrey Ho's Ninja: Operation Knight and Warrior a.k.a. Ninja: Silent Assassin in its original 2:35:1 aspect ratio(or as close to it will probably ever be).
This little piece of video wizardry was pulled off by combining the audio from a (relatively)high quality encode of the pan-and-scanned VHS of Ninja: Silent Assassin-
the American version of Ninja: Operation Knight and Warrior- with the more complete
image from the French VHS release of the film which was titled Black Ninja(no relation
whatsoever to the 2003 direct-to-video Clayton Prince film of the same name).
Surprisingly, putting this together required much more than simply overlaying the English audio over the French video and doing a bit of color correction, because the latter not only runs at the PAL standard of 25 FPS but also uses a markedly different print as its source than does the American tape.The differences generally amount to a matter of frames at reel changes which were easily fixed by repeating or cutting a few frames as needed, but on some occasions there are a few seconds of material that are outright missing from the French print andon those occasions I had no choice but to default to the pan-and-scanned American VHS. Thankfully, those occurences are few and far inbetween, but they DO happen so keep that in mind.
Also, there are some issues with this version that slipped by me when I was editing this in Vegas- rest assured that those will be ironed out as much as possible by the time I upload this to a file host.
In any case, enjoy your partially-restored audio-visual trainwreck.</i></span></div>Jesus Manuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16848433594574814130noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844489077565674835.post-65252514610746258092012-07-12T00:01:00.001+02:002012-07-12T00:01:14.789+02:00Taiwan Black Movies at IFD & Filmark (part 12): Deadly Silver Angels<div style="text-align: justify;">
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As many early IFD films of Taiwanese Black Movies , Deadly Silver Angels was released in Spain twice by different companies during the VHS craze. The Spanish title was Angeles De Plata Mortales what is simply a word by word translation from the international English title.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Second Spanish VHS...No Bruce Lee but Indonesian actress Eva Arnaz from 5 deadly Angels ( the title Deadly Silver Angels got on its USA tape release) + the original names of this taiwanese productions was the design of the art cover!!!..A big misunderstanding because of the several aka titles!!!!</i></td></tr>
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While IFD credits shows Deadly Silver Angels as a 1983 production, the fact is this film was shot in 1981 and its original taiwanese title was VIRAGO ( Strong of a Woman). At first sight we may think IFD offered us this movie on its original taiwanese cut as it was usual back then when IFD just distributed asian films overseas outside Asia.</div>
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But there is something weird with Deadly Silver Angels that makes me think IFD started its "cut & paste" editing style before Richard Harrison arrived. The prologue shows a bizarre nightclub scene where a couple dances until they get naked...well, the girl gets totally naked while the guy ( thanks God!!!) keeps his white cottom pants on.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>This film should have been titled Angels on pants!!!</i></td></tr>
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This scene, obviously, has nothing to do with the movie starring by Elsa Yeung & Eagle Lee about gang fights & female revenge, besides the original Taiwanese cut opens with Eagle Lee singing in a nightclub. But the most bizarre fact is the same naked dancing scene was used again by IFD in Angels With Golden Guns ( aka Virgin Apocalypse), a Hong Kong-Thai co-production released by IFD the same year they released Deadly Silver Angels.</div>
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Was editor Vincent Leung Wing Chan too busy editing several IFD movies at the same time & got confussed? Was this scene so important to IFD guys that they wanted to use it so many times as possible? I don't have answers to these questions but this scene set the strange, whacky & weird sense of eroticism displayed by IFD on following films.</div>
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But that's not all...Deadly Silver Angels got a kind of pseudo-sequel / remake titled on its Hong Kong VCD Scape at Dawn, starred by Taiwanese action star <a href="http://hkmdb.com/db/people/view.mhtml?id=15536&display_set=eng" target="_blank">Yin Su Li </a>( Barbara Yuen when credited by IFD). For a time, I thought this "Deadly Silver Angels 2" was an alternative title for <a href="http://hkmdb.com/db/movies/view.mhtml?id=15140&display_set=eng" target="_blank">Armed School Girls</a>.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>I found this VCD in Hong Kong during the late 90's when hong Kong was my second home.</i></td></tr>
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But doing a deeper research on the cast & their "links" to other IFD productions I recently found out that Scape at Dawn is just an alternative title of <a href="http://hkmdb.com/db/movies/view.mhtml?id=13132&display_set=eng" target="_blank">Escape of the Female Prisoner</a> directed in 1984 by Lam Ying whose Survival of the Dragon was also released by IFD in the West.</div>
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Ninja Dragon is possible one of the most well-known IFD ninja movies because of its many releases on different formats & even today is an easy to find film. Ninja Dragon was possibly shot back to back to some other IFD ninja films such as Ninja Terminator, Ninja The Protector & Diamond Ninja Force. All of these movies share almost the same supporting actors, crews & even locations.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>by 1985, IFD ninjas didn't use headbands!!!</i></td></tr>
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Ninja Dragon tells the story of two Shanghai international tycoons played by Richard Harrison as the hero & Paulo Tocha ( credited as Bruce Stallion) as the villain. A couple of years later ( Ninja Dragon was shot in 1985) Tocha would become very popular as the evil kickboxer Paco in Jean Claude Van Damme's classic Bloodsport.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Paulo Tocha (aka Bruce Stallion) got an impressive film career in HK: from cameos or extra roles in Shaw Bros to main star at IFD & Filmark & then to bigger productions & finally Hollywood!</i></td></tr>
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Ninja Dragon was choreographed by Donald Kong ( aka Chiang Tao) who played different roles at IFD around those years before he move to Filmark where he used to be credited as Don Kong, Tony Kong or Whatever Kong. He did a nice job on Ninja Dragon: the film opens like a classic kung fu film showing different ninja weapons & then we have a red background where two ninjas display their skills. This kind of opening was very popular on many kung films at the end of the 70's...even Jackie Chan's Snake in the Eagle's shadow used this kind of opening.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Bruce Lee + Sylvester Stallone + IFD flavour= Ninja Bruce Stallion</i></td></tr>
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In the other hand we have a Taiwanese crime drama played by well known players such as <a href="http://hkmdb.com/db/people/view.mhtml?id=14144&display_set=eng" target="_blank">Lily Lan Yu Li </a>who played Madam Phoenix in Jackie Chan's Killer Meteors & also some other Taiwan Black movies distributed by IFD such as <a href="http://goldenninjawarriorchronicles.blogspot.com.es/search/label/Fury%20of%20a%20Virgin" target="_blank">Fury of a Virgin</a> among others & <a href="http://hkmdb.com/db/people/view.mhtml?id=4408&display_set=eng" target="_blank">Chan Kuo- Chu </a>who also played along Jackie Chan & Jimmy Wang Yu in Island on Fire.</div>
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Ninja Dragon was done using a 1982 taiwanese production titled <a href="http://hkmdb.com/db/movies/view.mhtml?id=15115&display_set=eng" target="_blank">Dark Trap</a> directed by Lee Wing-Cheung who among other works he directed Cat 3 cult films such as Rape & Die or Dress off for life. But the most interesting thing about DARK TRAP is that this taiwanese black movie is just a remake ( well, let's say a Xerox copy suits better) of a Shaw Bros film directed in 1976 by Hua Shan titled <a href="http://hkmdb.com/db/movies/view.mhtml?id=5715&display_set=eng" target="_blank">Brotherhood</a>. Lee Wing-Cheung worked as assistant director in Brotherhood & then in 1982 he decided to remake it using some of the original cast from Brotherhood!!!.</div>
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On January 19th 2011, I did an entry writen in Spanish in this blog about Ninja Dragon & Shaw Bros Brotherhood. At the time I had noticed both films had the same story & even same actors.You may see that entry clicking <a href="http://goldenninjawarriorchronicles.blogspot.com.es/search/label/Informaci%C3%B3n%20t%C3%A9cnica?updated-max=2011-01-23T10:35:00%2B01:00&max-results=20&start=10&by-date=false" target="_blank">HERE</a>. Back then I didn't know the title of the source movie used by IFD for Ninja Dragon. Today, and Thanks to Teddy Wong from HKMDB, another IFD mistery has been unclosed!</div>
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As always on these entries, a question, an important question is needed: Does anyone know if Dark Trap was released on tape or is on VCD? Does anyone own a copy of it? Any kind of information about it will be highly appreciated! </div>Jesus Manuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16848433594574814130noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844489077565674835.post-64774925578558349532012-06-25T17:59:00.000+02:002012-06-25T18:04:30.001+02:00A couple of updates of previous entries<div style="text-align: justify;">
The last entry of this blog was about the Taiwanese gagster movie used by IFD to create Ninja Knight Thunder Fox. A pic of such movie was provided by HKMDB editor Teddy Wong & today I got an email from him where he adds the title of such movie & its HKMDB flle. So, we are happy to announce Ninja Knight ThunderFox was made using <a href="http://hkmdb.com/db/movies/view.mhtml?id=15738&display_set=eng" target="_blank">A FIERCE LADY</a> as main body.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i> Fierce Lady is a great post-taiwan black movie shot inthe middle 80's.</i></span></div>
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There isn't too much information about the film's cast & crew yet but we are working on it. The director of this film <a href="http://hkmdb.com/db/people/view.mhtml?id=15023&display_set=eng" target="_blank">Lai Man Sing</a> directed some other gangster movies that still are on IFD's catalog such as Legal Killer or a great Taiwan Black movie titled Coming With a Gun. I was lucky enough to get an original VCD copy of Coming With a Gun while I was in Hong Kong in 1999.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Coming with a Gun, another of those "supposely lost" Taiwan Black Movies was released on VCD in Hong Kong at the late 90's.</i></span> </div>
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In the other hand, Teddy Wong has also uploaded to HKMDB a poster of <a href="http://hkmdb.com/db/movies/view.mhtml?id=6566&display_set=eng" target="_blank">Mixed Up</a> the Hong Kong movie ddirected by Chow Chun Gaai in 1984 starring a lot of popular faces from HK film industry that later was bought by Tomas Tang and re-edited using some of the original cast like Ho Pak Kwong & gweilohs like Louis Roth, his girlfriend <a href="http://goldenninjawarriorchronicles.blogspot.com.es/search/label/Deborah%20Grant" target="_blank">Deborah Grant</a> & John Masters in new shots that became <a href="http://goldenninjawarriorchronicles.blogspot.com.es/search/label/Deborah%20Grant" target="_blank">Vampire Raiders Ninja Queen.</a></div>
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I look for a copy of Fierce Lady & Mixed Up desperately...if anyone knows how & where to get them, any kind of information will be highly appreciated.</div>
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One more time, Thanks a Lot to Teddy Wong & its great work at <a href="http://hkmdb.com/db/index.php" target="_blank">HKMDB</a></div>Jesus Manuelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16848433594574814130noreply@blogger.com0