Cannon was the ultimate purveyor of cinematic schlock during the Eighties. You knew you were in for a good time when you saw their logo.

As a kid, I was always impressed by the evil ninja’s seemingly endless supply of ninja stars. 🌟⭐️🌟⭐️🌟

I just finished watching “The Story Behind Ninja III: The Domination” and in my opinion it is fantastic. This is the must accurate and precis description of the behind the scene of this movie that I have encountered to date. Excellent research and presentation, informative and entertaining at the same time. It reveals new unknown facts and set the record straight on some misconceptions. I am sure it will delight the army of loyal fans and followers of Ninja III: The Domination.

Oh man, just found this video. I saw this movie in the theaters the weekend it came out - I was 7 and forced my mom to take me, hah! We went to a dump of a grindhouse local theater in my neighborhood, the pre-gentrification rough and tumble lower east side of Manhattan, NYC, in the early 80s. LOVED this movie!

This movie is my 80s growing up!! I went as a ninja like 4 times for Halloween during the 80s.

I was lucky enough to catch the beginning of this movie on Showtime or Cinemax back in 1985 or '86 while my parents were out of the room. I was about 7 or 8 and just sat in wide-eyed horror at the amazing golf course massacre sequence. My parents came in and turned off the set, but the damage was done: I had become a ninja fanatic!! That opening golf sequence is still as awesome all these decades later.

When I was a kid I rented this movie every single week from blockbuster. My parents could have bought me a thousand copies I rented it so much.

Ninja 3 "the Abomination" is an all-time classic in the Ninja movie genre. I saw it in the theatre when I was a teenager, then had it on VHS for awhile, & it's still one of my favourites. The Hunted (1995 Christopher Lambert) is the best.

Sho Kosugi stared in an episode of Ninja Sentai Kakuranger along with his son, Kane Kosugi who was playing Ninja Black, Jiraiya. It was a two-part episode and the both father and son fought each other in a bloody, spectacular battle. I highly recommend checking it out.

Amazing video man! I so remember seeing this VHS rental back in the 80s and just recently watched it again on Amazon Prime. Awesome movie.

Sam is a great guy. Always talks to his fans. And this.....this video! Masterpiece! Thank you. As a boy, I was part of the "Sho Kosugi Fan Club"......complete with an eye patch, root beer powder (yes), paper and pencil that can work underwater, paper that dissolves in water after you write a message on it (mixing those up was a fun experience), the greatest Kosugi Ninja poster, and the best plastic sword a nine year old had ever seen (really....still have it). This video brought back some great memories. Your channel is priceless. I miss Sho very much. I'm still in martial arts, and teach children jiujitsu (well...I'm sure I will again once the plague is finally contained).

David Chung Sho kasugi...I watched this movie over and over on VHS Back in the late 80's. David Chung as the evil green ninja is epic. RIP David Chung,thank you.

This movie brings back childhood memories. I remember one if the first things I wanted to be as a kid was a ninja! Loved the whole mythology of the story. This movie is one of my favorites and will always be a classic to me.

I helped look after Sam Firstenberg for a week at a film festival a few years ago. He's quite possibly the nicest man I've ever met, and yeah, everything in the video is pretty much true. Kosugi fumed at "American Ninja" as well, which is why, for a while, it was known as "American Warrior". Weirdly, Samurai Cop, Troll 2 and The Room feature side by side. At the same festival, I've looked after Matt Hannon, (the same year as Sam), Claudio Fragasso and Rossella Drudi and Greg Sestero from each film respectively too! As for Sam returning to directing, he told me he had the chance to go into big-budget movies when Hollywood took over (much as Andrew Davies went from Seagal and Norris to The Fugitive), but he said he didn't want to have a studio controlling him, and, though he sometimes misses directing, he just had too much fun (and freedom) in Cannon. Now, he makes and sells furniture, which makes him happy and seems to be quite profitable, meets up with Dudikoff, who lives nearby, on a regular basis, and sent us the film he made in 2003 in his house to screen the year after he came. I made the mistake of asking him pretty much the minute we met about Steve James. He got really choked up talking about him. He loved Steve dearly, and desperately wanted Riverbend, which he directed as a favour to Steve, to be a huge hit to show Steve could lead a film as well as having martial arts skills. Alas.

Including Neil Breen as a foreign director (Martian) was a nice touch, although Mars is in the Solar system. He's definitely from another star system.

Revenge of the Ninja is one of my favorite movies ever. Fun fact...as an 80s kid... I thought the American Ninja movie was based on Snake Eyes from G.I. Joe 😂

Ninja 3: The Domination was my first experience of a good, bad flick. Nobody I knew heard of it, but it was my favorite of the ninja movies (I had them all). I knew it was bad and cheesy. But I loved it for that! I love this movie. Funny that Sho Kosugi didn't like this film as this movie made him a super star in my eyes. Only as an adult did I ever pick up on how creepy the boyfriend was. Trying to pick up a girl after 20 of his co-workers were just brutally murdered and stalking her later when she said no. The actress did a good job with what she was given. It's no masterpiece. Just massively entertaining!

This movie is awesome and scary as shit. To think a single ninja was capable to almost wiping an entire police force was terrifying to me as a kid back then. The movie made me believe that shurikens and katanas were more eficient than shotguns.

Van Damme is such a badass that he managed to make an appearance in this martial arts movie review that isn't even about him 🤣

The method of engaging the film itself in a (self-effacingly silly) "dialogue" via extremely clever edits has got to be the most refreshingly original take on the b-movie video essay format I have yet encountered. A perfect way to drive home your point throughout.

My friends and I used to rent “Ninja3” almost every weekend as kids. It was great, the supernatural aspect made it the most over the top fun time watching.

I've seen a number of videos on this movie, and this is the first time I am hearing Lustbader being mentioned. His book, The Ninja is fantastic, and I would love to see it on screen one day. On another note, Lucinda Dickey, what a treat for my teenage eyes back in the day. Also, dude, 6:03 "hairy love interest"? 🤣🤣🤣

Your Neil Breen joke was to the point, non-verbal and funny. Well done sir.

Revenge of the Ninja was a fckn classic. I remember watching that movie over and over as a kid. Everyone was into martial arts and especially ninjitsu. The 80s was a cool time and we all wanted to be ninjas or Bruce lee

In the early 80's, ninjas were everywhere. Literally everywhere! Even Magnum P.I. jumped on the bandwagon and did a couple of ninja-themed episodes. By 1987-ish, they were all gone...

My favorite Ninja movie of all time.

I didn't know that these Ninja movies were somehow connected to the Lustbader's series of book. That's actually very interesting, as I approached ninja movies thanks to the novels

amazing video again. you bring a very certain quality to your videos. I can't place it but they feel like the rare gems of doc-vids you would find late on channel 4 pre Internet era. excellent stuff!

It’s my favorite movie also didn’t know sho played the bad ninja too and also Steve is a legend he played most of the ninjas in the films

The golf course scene is class.

When I was a kid I had to spend summers with my family in Lake Tahoe, There was a total of 1 Video Store. I rented Pee Wee's big Adventure and Ninja 3 Every weekend. I loved the movie, But even at the time I was like 12 or something I laughed from beginning to end at how bad the movie was. Ty for the stroll down memory lane.

Discovering a new YT channel that hits the right notes is a rare thing indeed. Glad I've stumbled upon this one. Great videos. Down the rabbit hole I go. Neil Breen-Martian. Nice touch.

Another excellent and informative video! Great stuff!

I was 6 years old back in 85 when I seen this on the HBO and fell in love with this movie I never looked at it as a girl fighting a man . I seen it as a ninja’s revenge movie and yes the mad Sho showing us had badass ninja really are .

Love these "story behind...". It's unique to this channel

I'm actually speechless after seeing that Ninja Temple was a Matte Shot... The thing is seamless.

It's so fascinating how smaller productions like this had more leeway than mainstream franchises.

You're my sensei. You did your homework. The Neil Breen joke was so funny.

It has been the best ninja movie from 84 till now

Man great video....me and my buddies rented this from the local video rental store EVERY weekend. Fascinating to hear the story being this film

I'm proud to be the one thousandth 'like' on this breakdown of the flick with the best opening ten minutes this side of Pixar's Up. Well done, sir.

Yes! New content! Thank you!

I just found your channel. Absolutely wonderful stuff.

Ninja 4…!!! Let’s Go.! I grew up watching these movies on VHS. It brought back a lot of memories watching this video and thinking Sho was the sh**.! Thank you for the back story and walk/kick down memory lane.!

Sho Kosugi kept it all together for me his authenticity was natural.

"Neil Breen: Martian" XD I almost choked on my lunch.

In the first 6 seconds of this video, they are filming in what is now the Great Arizona Puppet Theatre (back then it was an abandoned Mormon church) in Phoenix. I do know why it makes me super happy to see it.

well very well done easily my favorite ninja trilogy but again yes this is very well put together excellent job 😎👌

My friends and I snuck into the theatre to see this- loved every second of it.

I LOVE THIS MOVIE HAD SUCH A CRUSH ON Lucinda Dickey. 😘😍😍😘😘😍😘😍 And Heather Thomas from The Fall Guy, TV series.

Great stuff, brother.

The 80's was such an awesome time to grow up, I loved this movie and all the other ninja movies when I was growing up

Amazing video you blow other more popular movie reviewers out of the water including a couple of hack frauds who will remain nameless. You deserve much more followers than you have.

15:35 First you put Robocop up there with Casablanca and Chinatown, THEN you call Neil Breen a Martian......You sir, have a new subscriber!

Eric Van Lustbader's novel The Ninja is a damn fine read. Complex, intense and gives the ninja characters a real sense of power. He can't write female characters to save himself, but everything else really sizzles. Read it if you haven't. Damn shame it never saw the big screen.

As a child I used to get so happy when this movie came on,still one of my favorites!

There was an obscure fighting game in the arcade that never had any home console on any generation called Survival Arts and a quick cash in to Mortal Kombat. Since Ninja III The Domination has Lucinda Dickie as an aerobics instructor/Ninja, the video game Survival Arts had a female Ninja character named Tasha and her attire consist of Aerobics tights and leotard and wields a Katana, in which sorta drew inspiration to Lucinda Dickie in Ninja III The Domination.

Ninja 3 is on of the first movies I ever seen on the big screen in theaters as a child. This movie started my fascination with Ninjas and at the same time my one of the first fine woman I recognized as kid lol

I adored Revenge Of The Ninja as a kid. I now live a few blocks from the stone fountain where the hobo took a shuriken to the eyeball in that film. If you're ever in Salt Lake, it's on the south east corner of 1st and State Street.

Now that's a video. Excellent research.

It was really quick an many may have missed it but when the narrator suggests that non-English speakers have created both some great and some pretty horrible films for Americans, he places pictures of certain directors and the great or terrible film that is associated with them along with their respective countries. When it comes to Neil Breen, he's apparently "MARTIAN"!! Brilliant!! That gave me a good enough laugh to convince me to subscribe. Thanks for that, Bad Movie Bible!

I love this movie. My buddy and I went to see it in the theater when it came out, we were absolutely obsessed by ninjas back then. When it came out on VHS, he and I had every single line memorized, could point out almost every single goof (we never noticed the sound guys sunglesses until I saw this video) and could almost reenact the entire movie.

Watched "Revenge of the Ninja" at the cinema, age 8 and I loved it. The days you could watch pretty much anything at the cinema (at least in Spain).

I first saw this movie on cable TV, I think it was HBO. This was in 1986, and I thought this was the best ninja movie ever.

I can still see the VHS box sitting on the shelf of the local video store. Ah, memories 😊

For some reason I get Sigourney Weaver being possessed in Ghost Busters, and even Lisa in Weird Science, vibes every time I see Christy in this movie. But yea, it makes sense that her persona was derivative from Flash Dance and Poltergeist, which preceeded it.

Ah yes. This and Revenge of the Ninja are the ones I watched in my home Cable TV when I was 4th and 5th Grade Elementary student. Good times.😌

Great Vid! So many fact i never knew

remember watching this in the 80's, loved it. but didnt see it for a while till 2020 I saw a clip. searched for it on a few apps I have, couldnt find it. so searched and bought the dvd.

Nice job!! 💪💕

I JUST FINISHED WATCHING ''THE STORY BEHIND NINJA lll THE DOMINATION.AND IN MY OPINION HAVING THIS PRIVILEGE BEING THE 2ND ACTION UNIT DIRECTOR,ACTION WRITER,STUNT COORDINATOR , STUNT DOUBLE FOR KOSUGI,CHANG AND DICKEY AMONG OTHERS IT IS A INACCURATE NOT CORRECT PEICE AND DESCRIPTION OF WHAT REALLY WENT ON BEHIND THE SCENES OF THIS MOVIE..THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE JUST CALL ME.I WONDER,WONDER WHY YOU DID'NT IN THE FIRST PLACE.THANK YOU AND STAY SAFE MY FRIENDS AND THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR LOYALTY FOR THIS MOVIE.IT MAKES ME VERY HAPPY EVEN TODAY YOU STILL ENJOY IT.

Ah yes, back during the glorious Ninja Craze of the 80s. Growing up, I loved watching martial arts movies on Saturday afternoons(mostly old Shaw Brothers movies) on the UHF TV channel. Many of the Ninja movies were pretty bad, but they were just as entertaining as those Shaw Brothers movies. It was great.

Loved this movie as a kid and thought she was so gorgeous, I loved Gymkata also. I only seen these movies when I stayed all night at a friend's house or cousins. Ninjas were huge back then. We use to all, make numbchuks and throwing stars. We would cut up broom handles and stuff, there was a local hardware store right by our street. We would by a little chain and eye screws. That was the days, until one of the assholes thought they would wack you in the leg. Lol

I love this movie... ever since I was a kid in the 80s. Not many people know this gem. I never even liked the other Ninja movies. This one was special! "He's only sleeping!"

Was the 'ninja craze' a B movie studios reaction/exploitation of the fears of a rising Japan in the 80s?The 80s and early 90s had a US fear that Japan was gonna eclipse everyone else through economic prowess. So was the ninja theme the way action movies responded to it?

Ninja III and American Ninja had me thinking I could be a ninja in real life..man o man..those were the days

Your editing skills are quite impressive.

This was the first ninja movie that I remember watching.

Neil Breen's nationality as "Martian". Love it.

@ 18:20 pretty positive that’s Anthony Keidis’ father Blackie Dammit. As the bad guy

Loved all these as a kid, but Revenge of the Ninja was the bomb.

The tomato juice seen was absolutely brilliant 😂that always stayed with me when I was a kid and watched this for the first time when it just went to VHS lol

Anything with Sho Kusugi back then was a sign of a good time. I don’t know how many times I rented Ninja III from the vid store….

Great video as always. 18:18 Is that villain Reverse Michael Jackson...?

Wowee, I used to go running all through Papago Park & climbed those buttes when I worked at the Phoenix Zoo right there. Too bad they didn't work the alligator lagoon into their movie since they were filming it there.

I remember these in school. Ninja 4. Hell yes

man we loved these movies as kids back in the 80s.

In the eighties and nineties here in Kenya Golan-Globus could do no wrong. Ninja III was soooo popular! Probably only second in popularity to Richard Harrison and Godfrey ho's Ninja franchise. Has anyone done a breakdown on Mr. Ho and company🤔

19:13 Sam Firstenberg, with "Shmulik" facemaask, lol - Dude knew what kinda stuff he was making! 🤣_👍

I remember as a kid in the 80's, the golf course scene really scared me. I thought it was so barbaric. I would fast forward that whole scene. Now I take great pleasure in watching it. Being on Ninja 4!

Myself and the first partner I ever lived with used to do 'good, bad movie night' every weekend and Cannon movies were regular go to's! Nostalgia overdose

Love your content 💯🎯👽🖤

I still rewatch these movies. They were the superhero movies of the 80s.

Oh man! Lucinda Dickey! From Breakdance to Ninja!

I loved this movie as a kid, loved it

My favorite 3 movies... Master Firstenberg ROCKS.

I loved this movie when I was a kid. I remember thinking ninjas were real when I was a kid.

Saw this movie when it released in theaters. Dope movie!

nice work.

19:38 🤣🤣🤣 Neil Breen as a Martian. That would explain so much.