Sam Firstenberg's NINJA III: THE DOMINATION (1984) from Shout Factory 6/11

Well, *this* was unexpected -- Shout Factory give a blu release to Sam Firstenberg's NINJA III: THE DOMINATION (1984)! It's just your typical tale of an aerobics instructor possessed by the evil spirit of a dying ninja, shot down by police after a golf course assassination. She's now programmed to track and kill his enemies, including the cops who blasted him in the first place. It's up to Sho Kosugi, import ninja, to stop her. Yet another out-of-control '80s Cannon classic, NINJA III has everything you'd every want in a movie: a hairy-backed dude who removes his shirt as often as possible, gratuitous use of V-8 in a sexual manner, flying satanic swords on strings, and, of course, some serious f'n ninja-ing. Top Ten stuff, here -- I can't preorder this fast enough.

DVD / Blu combo:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...eASIN=B00BNAE1IS&linkCode=as2&tag=cinema09-20

Trailer:
http://youtu.be/if9V-IFQjZ4

 

I have some fond memories of seeing this back in the 80's but I don't know how I would react to it now. Of course if it's a good transfer I'll probably pick it up.

 

Let's hope they get around to Enter The Ninja and Revenge Of The Ninja too.

 

I've never seen Enter the Ninja but both Revenge of the Ninja and Ninja III are the fucking tits.

This film will be MINE.

 

i seriously hope for once they will release a BluRay that is REGION FREE, don't know why they wouldn't...

 

I've got all three on Blu, but will be upgrading my German Blu to the Shout of course.

Enter the Ninja is actually my least favourite of the three.

 

Oh I don't know ... if I will ...


Holy Crap! Must BUY NOW !!!

 

The cover. (I actually wouldn't have minded seeing some goofy new painting for this, haha.)

 

A favorite of mine.

 

Review: http://www.dvddrive-in.com/reviews/n-s/ninjaIIIblu84.htm

 

- Great video.
- Great audio.
- Excellent audio commentary with Sam Firstenberg and Steve Lambert.
- Still gallery with rare behind-the-scenes photos.

SOLD!!!

 

Here's my crack at Ninja III, with screenshots:
http://the-manchester-morgue.blogspot.com/2013/05/ninja-iii-domination-scream-factory-blu.html
I was pretty bummed to hear in the commentary that a head spinning was shot during the exorcism scene, but didn't get used. My god, that was probably amazing.

 

DVDTalk review: http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/60481/ninja-iii-the-domination/

Disappearing swords? :eek1:

 

How the fuck could they miss that?!?
It´s not a "blink and miss it" moment either...

 

No idea. There was something similar on Synapse's release of Red Scorpion, but that was really just a flash second with a few frames.

 

Oh, great. Wait til the folks on Blu-ray.com find out - there's going to be hell to pay

 

Oh yeah... at least 100 forum pages of bickering and counter arguments, and possibly fruitcake recipes.

That forum really is bloated shit. And you can't even post a DVDBeaver or DVDTalk review link there without getting your post removed. Too much information that isn't proprietary is a bad thing over there.

 

Got an answer on Facebook about the missing blades:

" we run scratch removal on low, so i don't believe that caused this but we'll look into it."

 

The Ninja III issue may actually be part of the film. The scene in question occurs at the 1:14 - 1:16 mark on the following video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdQldhv_KK4&feature=player_detailpage#t=74s

 

Yup, I just saw the clip on facebook
Glad it´s not a mistake with the transfer. The Ninja is just TOO fast I guess