5th Old School Kung Fu Fest: Enter the Ninja!
April 16-19, 2015 at Anthology Film Archives
400 years of training in the art of sudden death… unleashed at: OLD SCHOOL KUNG FU FEST 2015: ENTER THE NINJA! Since the dawn of time, man’s natural predator has been the ninja. Hiding in your shower, crouching behind your laptop, clinging to your back – the ninja is everywhere. What killed the dinosaurs? Ninja. What battles great white shark? Ninja. Who is buying flowers for your mom? Probably ninja. Ninja is not vampire! Ninja can be filmed! This year’s Old School Kung Fu Fest examines this crazy natural phenomena of ninja with 14 movies that show you this sneaky fighter where he cannot shoot throwing stars into your eyes: on the movie screen!
There are serious black-and-white ninjas in the original ninja films SHINOBI NO MONO PARTS 1 & 2 (1962 & 63), super-noir ninjas in 1965’s SAMURAI SPY, party-colored crazy ninjas from the go-go 1980s like AMERICAN NINJA 1 & 2, and then be entered, revenged, and dominated by Cannon’s essential ninja trilogy: ENTER THE NINJA, REVENGE OF THE NINJA, and NINJA III: THE DOMINATION. Watch brave Chinese people fight ninjas with their guts in Shaw Brothers movies like FIVE ELEMENT NINJAS where ninjas are wrapped in gold foil like baked potato! See ninjas fly on kites and battle Shaolin in DUEL TO THE DEATH! You must see all the ninjas! Because to fight ninja, first you must understand the heart of ninja.
WARNING: Do not be scared. Ninja are only in movie and cannot hurt you. They are not actually giant. Except in DUEL TO THE DEATH.
NOTICE: Sho Kosugi is meditating in a mist-filled temple built deep within an active volcano until mankind needs him once again.
Films
ENTER THE NINJA (1981)
DUEL TO THE DEATH (1983)
REVENGE OF THE NINJA (1983)
SAMURAI SPY (1965)
A LIFE OF NINJA (1983)
AMERICAN NINJA (1985)
AMERICAN NINJA 2: THE CONFRONTATION (1987)
FIVE ELEMENT NINJAS (1982)
NINJA III: THE DOMINATION (1963)
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES (1990)
SHINOBI NO MONO, aka A BAND OF ASSASSINS (1962)
SHINOBI NO MONO 2: VENGEANCE (1963)
Links
Old School Kung Fu Fest: Enter the Ninja! (at Anthology Film Archive)
Witness ninja mayhem in exclusive trailer for NY's Old School Kung Fu Fest (Entertainment Weekly, April 2, 2015)
