In that one Deke had no choice in pursuing Pike. He deals with the same theme of conflicting friendship, loyalty, and honor that he dealt with in the Wild Bunch. The film is directed by Sam Peckinpah and while it is nowhere near the level of the Wild Bunch, it is a decent enough movie. With the use of braces and somewhat healed, George takes a job in order to seek out revenge on his former friend.
George (Robert Duvall) takes a better deal with a ninja organization and shoots his best friend Mike (James Caan) and partner in the elbow and knee, nearly crippling him. Experience with weaponry, incendiaries, Karate/Judo. It was popular enough to have a sequel released in the same year. Add some ninjas into the mix and you have an awesome film. It has violence, lots of blood, and nudity. Not as well remembered as that series, this one delivers in every category that would make this a cult film.
Based on a comic, the film has the same level of nudity and violence that Lone Wolf and Cub do. Three men during the Tokugawa era have a real big problem with the ninja, so they hunt them down and kill them. The early Japanese ninja films were more concerned with realism, similar to the stories told about the samurai. This gritty black and white story resembles a film noir and portrays the ninja and their techniques in a serious and realistic manner. Three ninja loyal to this warlord find out about the plan and set out to stop the ninja. Set in 1572 Japan, a ninja is sent out to assassinate one warlord.
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Ichiwaka was a popular star and appeared in several other series but unfortunately died in 1969 from rectal cancer at the age of 37. The plot may be difficult at times to follow but there is a lot going on in this, as normally the case with most of these types of films. This is essential viewing for fans of the old school samurai films that Japan produced from the 1950’s through the 1970’s. It is based off of a popular series of novels and would have a total of eight films made, all starring Raizo Ichiwaka. It is a about a rogue ninja named Goemon Ishikawa that goes against a warlord that despises the practice of Buddhism. This is one of the first films to depict the ninja. It was a huge success and ninja popularity completely blew up, with a slew of ninja movies coming out during the 1980’s. There was a plan to make the book a big Hollywood movie, but Cannon Pictures beat the other studios by releasing Enter the Dragon. It wasn’t until 1980, when the novel The Ninja written by Eric Van Lustbader that the ninja popularity was near ready to explode. films involving the ninja during the 1970’s. Hong Kong and other Asian countries released films involving the ninja starting in the 1970’s, with the major quantity of ninja films coming out between then and 1990. Outside of Japan, the ninjas abilities where embellished. The Shinobi no Mono film from 1962 was so popular it was followed by seven sequels. The first notable versions of the ninja appeared in the 1957 with the two Ninjitsu and future Japanese films playing them straight and realistic the Ninjitsu films starred Toshiro Mifune who had just come off of the popular Samurai trilogy.
All of this has been exaggerated and embellished like a myth or fairy tale to create a group that was almost superhuman. They had knowledge of the martial arts and various tactics, used camouflage, explosives, and various weapons. You can’t really blame the Japanese society not liking them, “no one had any respect for someone whose job it was to sneak into a person’s house to spy on them, slit a throat, steal, or poison the food”.
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īecause of this code the ninjas weren’t liked and didn’t even like themselves, never admitting to anyone that they were a ninja. One of the main needs for this was the samurai ideal or code, warlords didn’t want to damage their samurai’s reputations and most samurai would refuse this type of job. Ninja first started to appear in Japan around the 15th century out of necessity because people needed someone to perform clandestine activities, assassinations, intelligence gathering, and they needed outside mercenaries. The ninja or shinobi are a group that are universally known and yet still shrouded in mystery, due to the myth building that has surrounded them much like that of Robin Hood and his band of thieves.