During years I have been trying to compile a full ninja movie list from Filmark International. I haven't got it yet becuase as all of us know Filmark was destroyed by a big fire on Garley's Gallery & dissapeared forever. I got many pressbooks from Filmark when some Spanish companies bought their films at the end of the 80's but as I said before, I haven't got a full catalog list from Tomas Tang's company.
Here I dare to publish what I call Uncomplete Ninja films from Filmark based on my own collection & the movies that contained Filmark logo. If someone finds mistakes, missing titles or just want to add a title, please feel free to contact me or just leave a message.
FILMARK INTERNATIONAL LTD NINJA MOVIES
-NINJA PANTHOM, HERO USA ( aka Ninja empire)
-DEATH CODE NINJA
-NINJA 8: WARRIORS OF FIRE
-NINJA AMERICAN WARRIOR
-EMPIRE OF THE SPIRITUAL NINJA
-TWINKLE NINJA FANTASY (aka Ninja fantasy, aka Ninja project, aka Empire of the ninjas)
-NINJA PROJECT DAREDEVIL (aka Grandmasters of death, aka Ninja masters of death)
-NINJA WARRIOR FROM BEYOND (aka Black Panther)
-SILVER DRAGON NINJA
-CLASH OF THE NINJAS
-VAMPIRE RAIDERS NINJA QUEEN
-NINJA THE SHADOW KILLER
-BIONIC NINJA (aka Ninja Assassins)
-NINJA DEMON'S MASSACRE
-GOLDEN NINJA INVASION
-NINJA IN ACTION
-THE THUNDERING NINJA
-NINJA FORCE OF ASSASSINS
-NINJA IN THE KILLING FIELDS
-NINJA EXTREME WEAPON
-NINJA THE VIOLENT SORCERER
-THOUGHT NINJA, THE SHADOW WARRIOR
-INSTANT RAGE
NINJA MOVIES DISTRIBUTED BY FILMARK
-LIFE NINJA (aka Secret life of the ninjas, aka A life ninja)
-NINJA CONDORS 13
-NINJA USA
-NINJA THE BATTALLION
-KILLER'S INVENCIBLE (The Super Ninjas)
-TOP MISSION
FILMARK ACTION MOVIES WHICH INCLUDE NINJAS
-COUNTER DESTROYER (aka RoboVampire 2: Counter destroyer)
-DEVIL'S DYNAMITE (Aka RoboVampire 3: Devil's Dynamite)
-THUNDER SCORE
FILMARK MOVIE WITH NINJA WORD ON THE TITLE BUT NO NINJAS AT ALL ON SCREEN
-NINJA KILLER (It is just a re-edition & re-dubbed version of a HK-Turkish co-production titled Kung Fu in the Bosphurus, starring Donald Kong, Bolo Yeung, Carter Wong & turkish star Cuney Arkin)
There is an Alexander Lo Rei ninja movie titled MAFIA Vs NINJA which is wrongly added to Filmark's catalog. This movie wa distributed by Golden Sun Films. Filmark has nothing to do with it.
If you own or know a ninja movie from Filmark International that is not included in this list, please let me know & we could add it to list!
Regarding NINJA KILLER: Doesn't the three masked guys, whose leader turns out to be Kong To, who attack Bolo's apartment early in the movie count as pseudo-ninjas at least? :-)
ResponderEliminarGreat blog by the way! Thanks & congradts.. It is a great help to me in learning about who's & how's of the cut&paste ninja craze of the 1980s.
One question: If Ho wasn't really involved with Filmark, who was their director of added scenes and also who oversaw the final post-production? Tang himself? Actually, I am especially interested in the people behind the 1986 NINJA KILLER re-shoot & re-edit. Who is "Lawrence Chan", the credited director? Who are "Peter Ronald", "Richard M.H.D", "Michael Tai", credited as the production team? Cheers
Thanks a lot for for your message!!!
ResponderEliminarYeap, you may be right, those three guys could be taken as ninjas...but,this idea only works if you are a very open-minded person!!!! hehehehehe.
Many technicians who were working for IFD worked for Filmark as well. For example the dubbers were the same team at both companies, the editor Vincent Leung was also working for both producers & many more companies...
Godfrey Ho is credited as production designer in many Filmark kung fu movies ditributed by Tomas Tang before Tang decided to produce his own cut & paste flicks. But I firmly believe Ho never directed a single movie for Filmark. He directed a movie titled Top Mission & it was sold internationally by Filmark.
Who are behind Filmark pseudonyms???? Who really knows?, there are some people who appear in most of those Filmark movies who were credited under different names: Action director Tony Kong could easily be Donal Kong, also ex-venom Sun Chien.
Tommy Cheng Kai Ying was to Filmark what Godfrey Ho & Philip Ko were to IFD, I mean he was one of the regular directors who worked in the ninja cut & paste movies at Filmark. But as it happened at IFD, they were a bunch of directors.
Patrick Kong directed some Filmark ninja movies.
I am very happy you like & enjoy the blog!!! Thanks so much!
Thnx for your reply. If you give me an email adress, I can send you images of Turkish posters of some ninja movies released in Turkey, also some video covers. mine is ozkaracalar(a)bahcesehir.edu.tr
ResponderEliminarThat's would be great!!!!...if you send them to me & you give me your permission, I could publish them here. Any kind of contribution is always welcome!! this is my email jesunma(a)yahoo.es
ResponderEliminarThanks a lot!
OK, I've just emailed the images I promised. Please feel free to post them at ur wonderful blog.
ResponderEliminarCheers
Hello there...no email from you!...not even in the spam folder!!!...try again please
ResponderEliminarSorry, looking at my sentbox, I see that I've mistyped ur adress then. I've just resent it.
ResponderEliminarOther Filmark movies or alternate titles?
ResponderEliminarNINJA ASSASSINS (Filmark)
http://www.amazon.com/Ninja-Assassins-Cameron-Mitchell/dp/B000AIR2NA/ref=sr_1_17?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1321024347&sr=1-17
http://www.amazon.com/Ninja-Avenger-Assassins-Yasuaki-Kurata/dp/B002MZI72O/ref=sr_1_12?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1321024425&sr=1-12
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0199811/
NINJA DEATH SQUAD (?)
http://www.amazon.com/Ninja-Death-Squad-Jeff-Houston/dp/6300161439
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4X9th8FhFk
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0199818/
Are these missing movies or alternate titles of others on the list already?
ResponderEliminarNINJA ASSASSINS (1985) Filmark
Cast: Leo Fong, Kelly Steve, Alan Hemmings, Rick Wilson, Peter Chan, Andy Man, Jack Young, Pauline Chao, Alex Barer, Lily Chen, Ken Kuroda, June Hack, Ricky Sung
Director: Tim Ashby
NINJA DEATH SQUAD (1987)
Cast: Jeff Houston, John Wilford, Glen Carson, Billy Jones, George O'Neil, Patricia Goodman, Gordon Kay, Wallace Joos
Director: Tommy Cheng
Ninja Death Squad is another aka title for Ninja warriors from beyond. The cast is totally different from the credits because the main actor is Danny Raisebeck who played evil roles on IFD's Thunder of gigantic serpernt & the main villain on Ninja of the magnificent. Joff Houston was the the "name" Jonathan Isgar used on his Filmark movies.
ResponderEliminarAbout ninja assassins, I have no clue what movie is...that's why I the post title is Filmark uncompleted ninja movie list... Would you have any cover, pic, or graphic material about it? It would be great if there is another Filmark movie.
THanks a lot for your message!
Some links with pics and info about NINJA ASSASSINS:
ResponderEliminarhttp://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/824/ninjaassassinsscreens.jpg/
http://mitglied.multimania.de/gollumslair/ninjas/ninjaassassins/ninjaassassins.htm
http://www.amazon.com/Ninja-Avenger-Assassins-Yasuaki-Kurata/dp/B002MZI72O
http://www.comeuppancereviews.com/2010/05/ninja-assassins-1978.html
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0199811
I tried posting links to photos and info about NINJA ASSASSINS here but it didn't work, so I emailed them to you.
ResponderEliminarI have check my email account as soon as I have read your message but I haven't found your mail!!!...please, could you send it to jesunmaATyahooDOTes?
ResponderEliminarI sent the links to jesunmaATyahooDOTes the first time. Anyway, I sent the info again.
ResponderEliminarIn case the email doesn't work again, let's try this. If you remove all the spaces from this you have the first link (just add 3 W and a . at the beginning)
ResponderEliminarimageshack . us / photo / my-images / 824 / ninjaassassinsscreens.jpg
I got your mail & I check the pics. This Filmark movie is BIONIC NINJA so Ninja Assassins is another aka title for this Tomas Tang's production.
ResponderEliminarBut it can be a bit confused because Leo Fong's Enforcer from Death Row was also re-titled Ninja Assassins but it has nothing to do with Filmark.
Thanks a lot for your help, I really appreciate this kind of help because it is very useful to reconognice such titles & prove that IFD & Filmark didn't produce so many movies as people still think. I add the aka title to Bionic ninja!
Ok, but is there another different film also known as "Bionic Ninja"? The first movie review link I sent you has this at the bottom of the page:
ResponderEliminar"Not to be confused with Godfrey Ho’s BIONIC NINJA (1986) that isn’t half as entertaining as this one, which is also known as BIONIC NINJA in some territories."
When you click on the BIONIC NINJA link, it's for a different film...?
Yes, the other movie titled BIONIC NINJA is another German title for IFD's Ninja Knight: Thunderfox.
ResponderEliminarHi,
ResponderEliminarI have some FILMARK titles I don't see on your list. Operation First Team, Secret executioners and Firefist of incredible dragon. Or are you just interested in the cut & paste genre? Regards.
Also martial monks of shaolin temple, secret executioners and 5 pattern dragon claws are all FILMARK titles.
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