Category: Ninjas
BMFcast 600 – Unmasking the Idol – So Long and Thanks For All the Jox
Unmasking The Idol (1986) brings us back to the world of superspy Duncan Jax for our final episode. In the precursor to BMFcast fave Order of the Black Eagle, Duncan and his team must stop Scarlet Leader from starting WW3 by invading his island lair. It’s a great time, and a fitting way to wrap up 15 years and 600+ episodes of fun.
Thank you for giving us your ears for over 900 hours of hollerin’ about robits, ninjas, Steve James, and sometimes, puppies. This isn’t goodbye though, it’s “see you later.”
Crash and Burn,
Harlo, Maki, BJ, and Chuck
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BMFcast599 – China Strike Force – Kung Foolio
China Strike Force (2000) lets us test The Coolio Principle in our penultimate episode. He and Mark Dacascos are gangsters who want a piece of China’s drug trade. Our heroes (Aaron Kwok & Leehom Wang) are there to put a stop to it. It’s from the director of Rumble in the Bronx (Stanley Tong) so we know the stunts will deliver. Will it deliver the Jox as well, or will the Coolio Principle remain in effect?
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BMFcast 593 – Red Sun Rising – Death Jab for Cutie
Red Sun Rising (1994) brings us Don “The Dragon” Wilson as a Japanese cop whose partner is killed by an assassin with supernatural powers (James Lew). When the assassin and his boss look to start a gang war in Los Angeles, it’s up to Don to stop them, with the help of Mako, Michael Ironside, and Terry Farrell. Can this movie death punch its way to Jox?
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BMFcast 577 – Tai Chi Master – Pole-tron
Tai-Chi Master (1993) returns Oscar winner Michelle Yeoh to the show, with Jet Li and Siu-Ho Chin along for the ride. Directed by the legendary Woo-Ping Yuen, it’s a wire-fu tale of two young monks who get kicked out of their monastery for being too good at kung fu. They eventually end up on opposing sides of a revolution. The story isn’t the point, though. It’s all about the amazing fight scenes. And we can tell you that these scenes deliver. Is it enough to get the coveted 5-jox award?
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BMFcast 572 – Return to Savage Beach – Maximum Strainage
Return to Savage Beach (1998) is our final trip into the Andy Sidaris universe. Julie Strain and the whole gang is back, including lots of guns, nudity, and exploding RC vehicles. Will it bring us back to the glory of past Sidaris movies? Time to take off your champagne outfit, hop in the hot tub and find out!
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BMFcast 567 – Ninja – Solid Snake Eyes
Ninja (2009) concludes NINJANUARY, as Scott Adkins plays Casey, an American orphan trained in the ways of the ninja. His biggest rival is kicked out of the dojo and becomes the world’s deadliest assassin. What happens when they both clash over the legendary Yoroi Bitsu, a chest full of powerful ninja stuff? Spoiler: it involves a lot of jump kicks, katanas and CG blood. Does this movie jump to the top of our ninja list or die dishonorably?
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BMFcast 566 – 3 Ninjas – The Ninja Trajectory
3 Ninjas (1992) continues NINJANUARY! Three American brothers (Rocky, Colt and Tum Tum) learn from their ninja grandfather the ways of being a true ninja. If you’re a millennial, you probably loved this. Last week, Nine Deaths of the Ninja lied to us about the amount of deaths. What untruths about ninjas are there to be uncovered this week? Stay tuned, but first…we feast!
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BMFcast565 – Nine Deaths of the Ninja – General Honey Hump
Nine Deaths of the Ninja (1985) officially begins Ninjanuary! Sho Kosugi returns as a member of D.A.R.T., the world’s most elite anti-terrorism squad. They have to save a bus full of diplomats, children and tour guides who have been taken hostage. Featuring some of the most bizarre villains we’ve ever seen, does this ninja movie that’s more James Bond by way of GI Joe deliver the goods or leave us stranded in the jungle?
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BMFcast553 – TC 2000 – Spider-Man Breadbasket
TC 2000 (1993) is a mishmash of several better post-apocalyptic films, this one just features way more punching and kicking. BMFcast alums Billy Blanks, Bolo Yeung, Bobbie Phillips and Matthias Hues punch and kick and die and some become sex robots. You know, the circle of life.
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BMFcast546 – Expect No Mercy – Billy Liverounds
Expect No Mercy (1995) features Billy Blanks (King of the Kickboxers) infiltrating an group of assassins hiding behind a cyber self-defense academy front. There he must kick bad dudes in the face, both in the real world and in virtual reality.
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