![]() ![]() This time they detect…ninjas! The story is as old school as they come, but It’s the execution that changes everything. But this time, they detect something rotten. Once every 10 years, Japanese and Chinese fighters duel (to the death) to figure out who will rule the martial world. The first movie from Hong Kong’s great action director, Ching Siu-tung ( Swordsman II, A Chinese Ghost Story I – III, House of Flying Daggers) this is a fever dream of freaky images ripped straight from his childhood. Starring: Norman Chu Siu-Keung, Damian Lau Chung-Yan (1983, Hong Kong, 83min, DCP, in Cantonese with English subtitles) Dressed in jams and Hawaiian shirts because the costume department was on vacation, the Marines are being turned into genetically-engineered super-ninjas by drug dealers! Is Dudukoff’s cool coif big enough, and are James’ tiny red shorts short enough, to defeat the Clone Super Ninja Army? “Ninjas? Drug pushers? My men being kidnapped and murdered? This is really beginning to get on my tits!” shouts the base commander. Probably the most ridiculous 80s action movie ever made, AN2:TCdelivers an easy, breezy does of sheer gnarlitude as Dudikoff and Steve James team up once again, their pecs a-flexin’, to investigate trouble on a tropical island where ninjas are kidnapping US Marines. Starring: Michael Dudikoff, Steve James, Jeff Weston, Gary Conway, Michelle Botes. Shot in the Philippines by Cannon’s go-to director, Sam Firstenberg ( Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo, Revenge of the Ninja, Ninja III: The Domination), American Ninja delivers balls-out 80s action as it pits Dudikoff and his easygoing partner, stuntman-turned-actor Steve James, against the mysterious Black Star Ninja, his ninja training camp, and ninja lasers! Next Cannon offered the part to Chuck Norris but he was busy, so the part of the white boy with amnesia who is actually a secret ninja went to model Michael Dudikoff. Originally set to star Cannon Films’ martial arts megastar, Sho Kosugi, that plan bit the dust when Sho ditched the exploitation studio over creative differences. The greatest bar mitzvah movie ever made, American Ninja tells the tale of a young American boy who must embrace his people’s ancient traditions in order to become a man. Starring: Michael Dudikoff, Steve James, John Fujioka, Judie Aronson. Ninja are only in movie and cannot hurt you. Special thanks to Crystal Decker Orren, Jesse Falowitz, Dan Halstead,Devin Power-Bearden, and Keith Allison(Teleport City). Raffle prizes provided by Blue Snake Books, IDW Publishing, and Well Go USA Entertainment. Screening materials provided by the American Genre Film Archive, Animeigo, Celestial Pictures, Fortune Star, Kino Lorber, Park Circus, Shochiku, and Toei. ![]() Cowin Foundation, the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office New York, Mizu Shochu, and Mass Appeal. We’re deeply grateful for the support of the Kenneth A. The Old School Kung Fu Fest 2015: Enter the Ninjas! is curated by Subway Cinema’s programming team, consisting of Samuel Jamier, Rufus de Rham, and Goran Topalovic. Watch brave Chinese people fight ninjas with their guts in Shaw Brothers movies like Five Element Ninjas! See ninjas fly on kites in Duel to the Death! You must see all the ninjas! Because to fight ninja, first you must understand ninja. There are serious black-and-white ninjas in the original ninja films Shinobi No Mono Parts 1 & 2 (19), super-noir ninjas in 1965’s Samurai Spy, party-colored crazy ninjas from the go-go 80s like American Ninja 1 & 2 and then be entered, revenged, and dominated by Cannon’s essential ninja trilogy: Enter the Ninja, Revenge of the Ninja, and Ninja III: The Domination. ![]() But ninja is not vampire! Ninja can be filmed! This year’s Old School Kung Fu Fest examines this crazy natural phenomena of ninja with 14 movies that show you this sneaky fighter in the only place where he cannot shoot throwing stars into your eyes: on the movie screen! Who is buying flowers for your mom? Probably ninja. Hiding in your shower, crouching behind your laptop, clinging to your back - the ninja is everywhere. Since the dawn of time, man’s natural predator has been the ninja. The Old School Kung Fu Fest, a four-day celebration of the rarest, wildest, and most incredible martial arts and action cinema from the ‘60s, ‘70s and ‘80s is back at the Anthology Film Archives for its 5th edition, which is dedicated to the deadliest fighter of them all…the ninja! Old School Teaser Poster designed by Jerry Ma (Epic Proportions) ![]()
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