Ninja women's camp
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Ninja women's camp |
| Original title | Shadow Killers Tiger Force |
| Country of production | Hong Kong |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1986 |
| length | 83 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Godfrey Ho |
| script | Artur Stephenson |
| production | Tomas Tang |
| music | Sherman Chow |
| camera | Gordon Young |
| occupation | |
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Women's camp of the ninja , in the English original Shadow Killers , is an action film by Godfrey Ho from 1986, which is assigned to the metagenre trash film .
action
An organization called "Black Ninjas" kidnaps young women in order to sell them to brothels or private individuals. When Silvia, the daughter of the wealthy businessman Jack Bentley, is kidnapped by the criminals, he hires the female ninja Jenny to find and rescue his daughter. Jenny is also kidnapped by the Black Ninjas and ends up in their secret warehouse, whose commander Davis is also a ninja. With Jenny's help, Silvia is able to escape the camp twice, but both times she is caught again by the alarmed guards after a short time. On the third attempt, the two girls manage to escape in a kidnapped helicopter. After Jenny has received her reward for rescuing Silvia, Davis, who is looking for revenge, suddenly appears. In a protracted final battle, Jenny is able to defeat Davis with Bentley's help.
History of origin
Ninja films were popular in the 1980s. Godfrey Ho created a large number of low-quality ninja films for the western market for his own Filmark studio by buying up largely unknown films that usually did not use the subject "ninja", editing them and having 20 to 30 minutes of his own film material shot and inserted into the film remix, so that a new film emerged for the inattentive viewer. This is how Ho made over 80 ninja films in the 1980s. The raw material used for the ninja women's camps was the film Girls in a Tiger Cage, shot in South Korea in 1976 , a prisoner-of-war drama about captured Chinese women in a Japanese camp during World War II. The original film already has numerous logic gaps, presumably for reasons of cost, for example the protagonists' escape helicopter is much younger than the setting of the film and also incorrectly decorated. The inclusion of the original material in the new script creates further gaps in the logic, so the kidnapped girls receive and write e.g. B. regular mail, which seems possible for the prisoner of war camp of the original film, but is rather unlikely for a secret camp of kidnappers. Further problems for the viewer arise when cutting old and new film material, e.g. For example, if such a mix of materials creates a dialogue in which the two speaking people (one from the original film, one from the new material) are obviously sitting in different rooms.
The actors noted in the film's credits do not appear in any other films. Markus Risser assumes on Badmovies.de that all actor names and also the names of the employees involved are pseudonyms except for that of director Ho.
The German version of the film was indexed in September 1988 and removed from the index again in August 2013. A German DVD version was released in May 2014.
reception
Filmtipps.at described the women's camps of the ninja as an "entertaining trash grenade" and criticized, for example, the play of the lead actress Bentley as an "absolute negation of acting". Badmovies.de certifies the actress of Silvia a "quite passable performance" and describes the fight scenes in the newly shot part as "reasonably routinely choreographed". Overall, the magazine describes the film as a "real curiosity" and "peak of bottomless cheek", which makes it "an absolute laughing hit" in the sense of the trash film genre and "one of the greatest trash grenades in the universe". Filmflausen.de came to an overall negative assessment, since the original material was "eaten up by pale boredom" and the proportion of ninja scenes was clearly too low.
Web links
- Women's camp of Ninja in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Filmflausen.de: The Ninja Women's Camp ( Memento from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ a b c BadMovies.de: Ninja women's camp. Retrieved March 22, 2020 .
- ↑ Entry on Schnittberichte.com. Retrieved July 12, 2015 .
- ↑ Review on Filmtipps.at. Retrieved July 10, 2015 .