About this episode
The episode discusses the 1986 film Ninja Terminator, directed by Godfrey Ho, and explores its unique filmmaking style and plot.
This week we take a look at what is arguably Godfrey Ho's magnum opus as far as that director can have such a thing. We're watching Ninja Terminator from 1986, just one of scores of cheap, trashy martial arts movies made in the 1980s by Godfrey Ho in order to capitalize on the western appetite for all things ninja. Ho is famous for a technique of cut and paste filmmaking where he would cut out all the good parts of an Asian action movie, shoot some wraparound footage with western actors, and dub the whole thing over with a new audio track to make a new movie. Sort of. Plus ninjas. In this one, Ho casts Richard Harrison as Master Ninja Harry who, along with some friends, absconds with three pieces of a statue sacred to the Ninja Empire. When one of them are killed and the Ninja Empire recovers one piece, the other two ninjas conspire to keep the pieces away in order reform the ninja empire. Maybe? Harry enlists his friend Jaguar Wong to seek out the missing piece and a whole lot of crazy bullshit happens in the meantime. Join the Bring Me The Axe Discord: https://discord.gg/snkxuxzJ Support Bring Me The…
People in this episode
Hosts: Bryan White, Dave White
Topics covered
- martial arts
- Godfrey Ho
- 1980s cinema
- Ninja movies
- film analysis
Keywords
- Ninja Terminator
- Godfrey Ho
- martial arts movies
- 1980s
- Richard Harrison
Mentioned in this episode
Books & works: Ninja Terminator
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