According to Taiwan Black Movies in Variety, this genre of films was "Known at the time by the polite description "social-realist crime films," the genre was a broad church, combining over-the-top sexual and physical violence with stories involving either political or economic gangsterism."
I'm telling you this because IFD Films usually involved filmmakers like Godfrey Ho taking multiple ninja movies and surgically fusing them together into one never all that conhesive narrative. This one claims to be directed by Joseph La with Ho as story developer, yet nearly the entire movie come from the Taiwan black movie Ma! Don't Die On My Back!
The Ninja Master (Louis Roth) of the Silver Ninja Empire tells his students that Rodney and Janet - the characters from Ma! Don't Die On My Back! - have broken the first law of being a ninja: no premarital sex. They have been exiled and oh yeah, Gordon (Richard Harrison), needs to go get the Sword of Valour.
Rodney (Chun Hsiung Ko) and Janet (Elsa Yeung) aren't having a good time of things after being ninjas. He's gambling all over their money, she works scrubbing floors despite being pregnant. When he wins a big game of dice, a gang sets him up and he goes to prison, leaving Janet as a single mother and to make things worse, an accident burns her face.
As their son Danny grows up, she's too ashamed to tell him that she's his mother and says that she's just his maid. It takes him growing up and searching for his birth parents to realize that he's always known his mother. She's now dying and he puts her on his back to run to find his father, who has hung himself under a bridge. Yeah, this movie gets dark and you thought you were getting brightly colored ninjas.
Well, they're still here. As the master sent away Gordon, he has denied Stuart (Dave Wheeler) from being his successor. Stuart responds by killing him but somehow, he keeps breaking into the movie to tell us the ninja commandments, living up to this film's title. And then Gordon uses a ninja umbrella and defeats every other ninja and we're just supposed to forget that we watched all these ruined lives.
Seriously, this is one of the strangest and most oddly perfect mixes of two movies that don't belong together.
Basically, if you're a ninja, get married before you make love.
I'm telling you this because IFD Films usually involved filmmakers like Godfrey Ho taking multiple ninja movies and surgically fusing them together into one never all that conhesive narrative. This one claims to be directed by Joseph La with Ho as story developer, yet nearly the entire movie come from the Taiwan black movie Ma! Don't Die On My Back!
The Ninja Master (Louis Roth) of the Silver Ninja Empire tells his students that Rodney and Janet - the characters from Ma! Don't Die On My Back! - have broken the first law of being a ninja: no premarital sex. They have been exiled and oh yeah, Gordon (Richard Harrison), needs to go get the Sword of Valour.
Rodney (Chun Hsiung Ko) and Janet (Elsa Yeung) aren't having a good time of things after being ninjas. He's gambling all over their money, she works scrubbing floors despite being pregnant. When he wins a big game of dice, a gang sets him up and he goes to prison, leaving Janet as a single mother and to make things worse, an accident burns her face.
As their son Danny grows up, she's too ashamed to tell him that she's his mother and says that she's just his maid. It takes him growing up and searching for his birth parents to realize that he's always known his mother. She's now dying and he puts her on his back to run to find his father, who has hung himself under a bridge. Yeah, this movie gets dark and you thought you were getting brightly colored ninjas.
Well, they're still here. As the master sent away Gordon, he has denied Stuart (Dave Wheeler) from being his successor. Stuart responds by killing him but somehow, he keeps breaking into the movie to tell us the ninja commandments, living up to this film's title. And then Gordon uses a ninja umbrella and defeats every other ninja and we're just supposed to forget that we watched all these ruined lives.
Seriously, this is one of the strangest and most oddly perfect mixes of two movies that don't belong together.
Basically, if you're a ninja, get married before you make love.