Was "Enter the Ninja" ever released on DVD?
 

With Franco Nero and Sho Kosugi


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082332/


One of the better ninja movies as nothing unrealistic was done.

Ok, other than a white Ninja hiding in the dark.....


Scott45

Yeah! Waiting for this myself. MGM released Revenge Of The Ninja way back...

Love to have Enter and Ninja III: The Domination on DVD :D The golf course massacre scene is GOLD!! :D

Yes it was (Enter the Ninja (Edited) (1981) -- REGION 2).
But as of now it is Out-Of-Print sorry guys,and yes that movie was very cool back in the day.

Review of DVD 1
Review of DVD 2

Nothing amazing and I saw it for £1 when in the UK. They have shops called "Poundland" that had it.

Seconded! I've been waiting for this forever.

"Only a Ninja can destroy a Ninja."

All I remember about Ninja III was my friend's step dad lunging for the remote when the (lame) sex scene came on to fast forward past it.

He was ok with the violence, however.

Stupid, isn't it? Violence is ok, but nudity and/or sex?!? GASP! If there were two film sitting on a counter, and one was a run-of-the-mill porno flick and the other were a documentary about murder and suicide and showed actual graphic footage, I'd much rather my child see the porno.

It would pretty much be the same if we weren't talking pornographic levels of sex or violence. If one was a video of a nudist colony and one was boxing or MMA, again, I'd rather the child be exposed to nudity.

NOTE: I do not have any children. Laff...

To stick to the general thread topic, I too enjoy collecting these films. I have ten or eleven of them so far. I've got some watching to do! NOTE: thumbs up to 36th Chamber, The Protector (which I saw in the theater), and King Boxer. Can't wait to check out the commentaries too!

Yeah, I guess I should stick to the thread topic as well. :shrug:

I have actually never seen Enter the Ninja so I would welcome a R1 release.

I actually saw Ninja III first, then Revenge of the Ninja. We never got around to seeing Enter the Ninja.

Was ETN the one that has a scene where a ninja is walking with a handful of mini Chinese stars and someone is sneaking up behind him and the ninja tosses the mini stars and they land on the guys face?

That scene is forever embedded in my brain from my childhood, but I don't remember which film it was from?

The UK release is indeed edited and the PQ is quite poor. There's no better release to my knowledge. The situation with other Sho Kosugi ninja flicks on DVD isn't much better.

Revenge of the Ninja is released in R1 as open-matte as is Rage of Honor.
Pray for Death or Ninja III - Domination are MIA. I haven't been able to found any DVD releases for them.

Nine Deaths of the Ninja has a decent quality anamorphic release at least in Scandinavia.

Not related to Kosugi, but American Ninja 1-3 was recently released as a anamorphic collection in the UK. AN 1 is also anamorphic in R1, but 2 and 3 are open-matte.

That was Revenge of the Ninja.

Ninja III: The Domination - Golf Course Massacre!
Check this out (Sorry, I don't know how to make it show up as a video on this page):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_GNparFHMs

I watched that clip, but the scene I remember wasn't shown.

That clip was from Ninja III: The Domination. The infamous golf course massacre.

Yes, I know, but I still want to know which movie had the clip that I described previously in this thread.

Could be the other scene in RotN where the guy approaches the ninja and pulls his mask off. The ninja doesn't toss the stars but spits them out of his mouth right into the guys face.

No, I specifically remember the ninja underhand tossed them backwards and they landed on the guys face.

It was definitely Revenge of the Ninja.

He is picking a lock at the time. A security guard approaches. He throws out some spikes on the floor and some steel marbles. Security guard slips on the marbles and falls face first on the spikes and comes up screaming with them embedded in his face.

Nope, like I said, he underhand tossed them backwards and they landed in the guys face.

Found the UK DVD cover here

I remember this having a Columbia logo at the front so maybe this isn't with MGM (I know Sony do MGM now) DVD? It was a Golan-Globus Production/First City so maybe it's back with MGM now.

There's one on eBay if you can't wait!

Whatever happened to the chick from NIII Domination? wasn't that the same chick that played in the Breakin' Movies?

Yeah, Revenge of the Ninja getting released made me hope for more Canon, Golan/Globus, 80's ninja film goodness but sadly it just hasn't happened in the US.

Well, this year MGM released Gymkata, which, sorta' had ninjas..... but that just isn't enough. We need more.

And, Sho Kosugi needs to emerge from his misty mountain retreat and get back to business.

A little off of the ninja topic but has Kill Or Be Killed and Kill and Kill Again ever been released to DVD?

These were some of the grindhouse martial arts flicks my dad would take me to go see when I was a kid. :)