Tiger is the owner of a brothel who moonlights as a kung fu artist under the watchful eye of "Master." They run into serious trouble when ninjas inexplicably show up and jeopordize Tiger's p... Read allTiger is the owner of a brothel who moonlights as a kung fu artist under the watchful eye of "Master." They run into serious trouble when ninjas inexplicably show up and jeopordize Tiger's prostitution ring.Tiger is the owner of a brothel who moonlights as a kung fu artist under the watchful eye of "Master." They run into serious trouble when ninjas inexplicably show up and jeopordize Tiger's prostitution ring.
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- TriviaThe dubbed version of this movie begins with voice-overs from an American company. At the half-way point, however, the dubbing process was transferred to a British studio, and therefore the accents become English in the later scenes of the movie.
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Tiger: I'm so cold master. Can't we start a fire?
Master: No. If we made a fire the cold air would go directly into your body and kill you.
- ConnectionsEdited into Tela Class: Memórias de um Ninja Lóki (2007)
As you've no doubt read elsewhere, Ninja Death literally starts off with a ninja being killed, as a battle breaks out between a load of ninjas led by the grandmaster, and three brothers trying to protect a baby and a princess. After much fighting, the grandmaster steps in an tears one of the brother's eyes out. He beats another one into submission (and kicks him about 60 feet across the ground), whereupon the princess kills herself and the other brother escapes with the baby (or rather, a dummy is thrown off a cliff). Cue the creditless opening sequence, which can cause brain damage to those not used to these crazy films. This is only the first five minutes of Part One! Years later, Tiger runs a brothel, under the watchful eye of his pretend beggar master. We see Tiger touting for business and getting into a conversation with some hookers that wouldn't be out of place in a porno. There's also loads of nudity here for all you nudity fans out there. The whole point of this seems to be to introduce a Japanese brother and sister, who are working for the grandmaster and trying to strip Tiger of his clothes to see if he has a certain tattoo. This involves tricking Tiger into a room where the brother tries to strip him. Tiger gets the wrong end of the stick here: "Not the backdoor!" and his master soon gets wind of what's happening. Cue much training footage.
Meanwhile, the grandmaster (who makes a dramatic entrance that must be seen to be believed) preps his ninjas and we get to see the devil mask ninja, who usually runs about at high speed, going especially mental every time the grandmaster plays a flute.
The master sends Tiger to see a blind fortune teller and it's around this time the dubbing switches from American to English, just in time for Tiger to say 'plum flower' over and over again. The Japanese sister becomes his lover and everyone in the brothel is killed by ninjas. Tiger's master (who is a ninja) pays the grandmaster a visit, finds out the devil mask guy is his brother, and gets his arse kicked. End of part one.
Part Two spends the first forty minutes explaining what happened in the first film and training up Tiger for his big battle. Turns out he's a Japanese prince, his master was his uncle, and devil mask is his dad. Also, his mum isn't dead after all. The dubbing is back to American again and truly becomes surreal, as if the dubbing crew might have watched the film once before dubbing. Part 2 picks up again as various battles break out, most notably Devil Mask guy going berserk and pulling a guy's head off with his bare hands before rampaging through the countryside, pulling people's guts out. Also, most of this part of Ninja Death takes place beside waterfalls for some reason, and the Princess sounds like Lady Diana.
Part Three is where everyone gears up for the big battle. On one side you have the blind fortune teller and his crew, Tiger and the Japanese brother and sister, and on the other side you've got the grandmaster, devil mask, and infinite ninjas. There's a battle every minute and wait till you see a) The grandmaster's hammers, which detach themselves and fly at his opponents, b) Tiger's entrance to the big battle which involves him flying up into the air and things exploding c) Devil Mask's entrance to the last battle which involves him flying 400 yards horizontally through a forest and d) Loads of wire work, people flying about and a good pay off.
Ninja Death really is up there as one of the most demented films I've watched. The dubbing is insane and gets worse as the film progresses. The fights are bizarre and even gory in parts (one guy gets one of the grandmaster's hammers straight to the face and its bloody as hell). One guy punches himself in the head to death and Tiger has a little adventure with some peasants that's completely pointless and mental at the same time. I'd recommend this one to fans of obscure, weird and bad films. Be warned though – watch it only in instalments. It took me about a week to get through them all and I was glad I did.
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- Oct 21, 2013
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- Runtime1 hour 28 minutes
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