A Life of Ninja

Starring:Yasuaki Kurata, Kuan Tai Chen
Director: Tso Nam Lee
Studio: Tai Seng
Product Type: DVD

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IF IT WASN'T 4 BEENIE MAN & MICH "THE BEAR" TALLIFERRO I WOULD'VE GAVE IT 1 STAR! THIS IS LIKE KLASH!
bad movie and in a negative way
If i could i would give it 1/2 stars
I hope future anthropologists don't judge us for this
HAS SOME DECENT ACTING, BUT...

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Starring: John 'Ras Kidus' Cornelius , Scruncho , Marcia Griffith , Beenie Man , and LaNease Adams
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ASIN: B0001US628
Release Date: 2004-05-18

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IF IT WASN'T 4 BEENIE MAN & MICH "THE BEAR" TALLIFERRO I WOULD'VE GAVE IT 1 STAR! THIS IS LIKE KLASH! .......2006-12-13

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%R.I.P MICHAEL "THE BEAR" TALIFFERO%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
>>>>>>>I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHERE 2 START! *I WILL ALWAYS BIG-UP JAMAICA & ANY TALENT THAT IT PRODUCES BUT JAMAICA HAS MANY GREAT FILMS!(& THIS ISN'T 1 OF THEM)... I GAVE IT A 3 NOT BECAUSE I LIKE IT -JUST BECAUSE OF BEENIE MAN & MICH "THE BEAR" TALIFERRO (IN FACT THEY'RE THE REASON I GOT IT)! MARK DANVERS WHO PLAYS JULIUS ST.JOHN HAS DONE MUCH BETTER ACTING IN "DANCEHALL QUEEN" AS JR.! I'M NOT FAMILIAR WITH THE DIRECTOR DESMOND GUMBS BUT I'M NOT SURE WHERE HE WAS TAKING THIS FILM? *HE THREW IN GOOD CAMEOS SUCH AS: THE GREAT JIMMY CLIFF & THE TAXI DRIVER JAMAICAN COMEDIAN "OLIVER", BUT THIS IS A FLICK THAT'S GONNA @ THE BOTTOM OF MY COLLECTION 4SURE W/ KLASH!!!!
***I ALWAYS GET A KICK OUT OF HEARING "THE PATOIS", I JUST LOVED WHAT BEENIE/CROWN DON SAID 2 GARGON/NINJA MAN AFTER THEIR DISPUTE!!!!(I LUV BEENIE HE LOOKS LIKE MY FATHER)... I LUV THAT SONG THAT JULIUS WAS RAPPIN EARLY IN THE MOVIE, I BET IF IT THIS HAS A SOUNDTRACK IT WILL BE WICKED!!!! * IF YOU WANT 2 SEE REALLY GREAT "JAMAICAN MOVIES" THEN I WOULD SUGGEST: SHOTTAS, DANCEHALL QUEEN, 3RD WORLD COP, THE HARDER THEY COME THE HARDER THEY FALL, MARKED 4 DEATH!!!!
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>DA TRUTH < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < <

bad movie and in a negative way.......2006-03-24

not worth spending any money on. stick to third world cop and dancehall queen if you want to watch a good jamaican movie.

If i could i would give it 1/2 stars.......2005-12-15

This movie is the worst Jamaican movie ever. It makes Top Shottas look like Scarface. The "story", "acting" an "action scenes" were all laughable. If your a real fan of Jamaican films save your money or invest it in "Smile Orange", "The Harder They Come", "Third World Cop" or "Dancehall Queen" or even "Top Shotta".

I hope future anthropologists don't judge us for this.......2004-07-19

This film would reflect poorly on Jamaican cinema, but it was mostly filmed in the United States so West Indians can sleep easy knowing it's not their fault. This is a remarkably bad movie in concept and execution from all aspects save the soundtrack.

The film follows the story of Julius (Mark Danvers) an aspiring musician and mass murderer. Emigrating to the United States as a mule for a Suge Knightesque fellow, he immediately is frustrated by an employer who demands that he actually work in order to receive remuneration. Faced with so tyrannical a demand, he is torn with the dilemma of returning to his rude ways or sticking it out legit to save money for studio time. The devil on one shoulder snuffs the angel on the other. The poor acting having started from the get go, the film then begins wandering aimlessly from drug deal to drug deal and shooting to shooting all the while trying to pawn off on the audience bad acting and poor character development. Luckily, the technical aspects of the film are terrible as well so as to make for almost perfect symmetry across the quality board. Only Beenie Man's competence as an actor keeps the film from achieving anti-perfection, well, that and a halfway decent soundtrack.

As the film drags on one realizes that journeyman writers Bentley Kyle and Trenton Gumbs refuse to take advantage of many opportunities to make the film stop. Instead, they continue on piling superfluity at every chance to a film already much too long at the first natural conclusion point. The script lacks throughout in every way imaginable. The audience should heed the warning from Ninja Man's first appearance that further viewing will be a testing ordeal. He's a legendary freestyler but a terrible actor. There are perhaps two or three funny lines in the film but the real joke is on me as I didn't turn it off thinking it might get better.

HAS SOME DECENT ACTING, BUT..........2004-06-09

A REGGAE MUSICIAN BEGINS TO DEAL DRUGS FOR A DRUG KINGPIN SO HE COULD GET THE MONEY FOR STUDIO TIME. HAS A DECENT PLOT, BUT MOST OF THE ACTING ISN'T GOOD, AND MOST OF THE CHARACTERS WERE JUST CLICHED CHARCTERS THAT YOU'D USUALLY SEE A JAMAICAN ACTOR PLAY. I DO AGREE THAT THERE IS QUITE A BIT OF THINGS TO LAUGH AT WHEN WATCHING THIS MOVIE. NOT THE WORST OF ITS KIND, BUT, I DON'T THINK ITS REALLY WORTH BUYING.

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Hilarious movie, for all the wrong reasons
Modern Day Ninja!

A Life of Ninja
Starring: Yasuaki Kurata , and Kuan Tai Chen
Director: Tso Nam Lee
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ASIN: B00005B6LJ
Release Date: 2001-06-19

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Hilarious movie, for all the wrong reasons.......2007-06-20

Although this movie actually has a somewhat interesting story, it ends up being funny just because of all of the over the top martial arts. People jumping from trees, climbing up buildings, stabbing folks with ice daggers, etc.

Modern Day Ninja!.......2002-01-11

I've had this film on VHS for quite a few years (under the alternate title of "Deadly Life of a Ninja"). It was one of the first ninja/kung fu films I ever purchased, and even in pan n' scan, I thought it was a blast.

Unintentional comedy is evident in a few scenes, most notaby in the opening montage of Ninja history and training. For some reason, female mud wrestling is a secret Ninja skill according to the movie. In another segment, a Ninja battles his nemesis while wearing a gold lamme outfit!

The 1983 film contains one of the most interesting assassination techniques I've ever seen; a Ninja waits to attack his victim until she is taking a shower, and then kills her with a poisoned ICICLE! The hot water melts the murder weapon away, and the wound goes almost unnoticed during the autopsy.

The police are baffled by strange killings like this, and they call in a martial artist who is both an expert on Ninja, and is secretly is a good Ninja who fights for justice. The leader of the bad Ninja killed his Master many years ago, and so he works with the police to battle the Ninja assassins and have his revenge.

There is some nudity, but not to excess. The print is scuffed, but not overly poor, and does appear to be complete. As usual with older films like this, the dubbing is pretty funny to listen to. My biggest squawk is that the print is not in widescreen, although the film appears to have been shot that way.

For all you Grizzly Adams / PETA types, you might not care for two scenes. In one, two pigeons are skewered while on the wing during Ninja training. In another, a snake is beheaded on a kitchen table (this one is a bit graphic).

There is some kendo on disply, and even some wire work. When the hero goes to the Ninja lair, there's some great combat in their garden and surrounding woods, and the final combat with the bad Ninja leader is also great.

There is an excellent commentary by Ric Meyers of "Inside Kung Fu" magazine that is very informative on the real history of the ninja vs. the ninja history as portrayed in the movies. Turns out that the producers actually did a little research into real ninja, which made this film that much better.

Meyers' commentaries on these Martial Arts Theater DVDs are almost always worth watching the film twice back-to-back; first without, then with, the commentary track running. If I have a choice between kung fu movies to buy, the presence of a Meyers commentary track always helps me decide which one to spend the money on.

Description

Secret Life of a Ninja pulls the curtain open on the secret training techniques of the NINJA!

Yusaki Kurata (King Boxer, Secret of Shaolin Poles) plays the leader of a notorious band of Ninja operating in modern day Hong Kong. Elsa Leung is the sword wielding, kendo champion, youngest daughter of a crime family being targeted by Kurata's Ninja clan. Both she and the police seek out the aid of local kendo master, long time Shaw Bros. star and possible Ninja himself, Chen Kuan Tai (Bloody Fight, Bloody Fists). With his help Leung and the police hope to stop Kurata and save her family.

Smoke bombs explode and the shuriken fly as Kurata and Kuan Tai must battle to the death!

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