I recently said we should watch more Godfrey Ho ninja movies so he can catch up with John Carpenter's BMN tally. But then I got to thinking we should see someone else's take on the ninja movie. Like Don Kong's or Woo-sang Park's.
Except for the longest time I was convinced Don Kong was Godfrey Ho. Silver Dragon Ninja sure plays like a Ho movie. There's a white people side and an Asian people side and they never interact. Ho did use a lot of pseudonyms. Then I read this well-researched post that goes back to some of the filming locations. It even says there's an unofficial sequel called Ninja vs. Ninja! That post also proves that I didn't crop the title screen in a weird way, that's how it looks. Since I saw Silver Dragon Ninja in February it has been my go to comfort movie. It's the grilled cheese sandwich of movies.
The IFC Center in New York City had a good write up of L.A. Streetfighters when they showed it last June:
This lost obscurity from Korean expat and wannabe action star, Richard Park, will do for ’80s exploitation flicks what House did for Japanese horror movies.... Ice cream romance! Drunk mommies! Banana counting! The Spike Gang! A holy screening of a rare 35mm print of this ’80s Ed Wood-ian classic that will change your life.I don't have a 35mm print of the movie but I do have the next best thing, a DVD rip off a VHS tape. Look for Tom Wilson (Biff Tannen, Coach Fredrick, Arch [In April Fool's Day]) as a gang member.
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