Ninja's Revenge - Fan Edit of Godfrey Ho's Ninja Dragon - all the ninja scenes
10This is a Fan Edit of the Godfrey Ho ninja movie "Ninja Dragon", which I have re-named as "Ninja's Revenge".
When I was reviewing Ninja Dragon on my channel I commented that the ninja scenes in this film were far more interesting than the scenes that had obviously come from another film entirely that was about Chinese gangsters, and that whenever those parts came on you really wanted the ninjas to come back.
During the review, I felt that if you took out all the footage involving the gangster movie and just kept in the ninja scenes that you would have a much more interesting film, although a much shorter one. Well, now I have done that!
The trickiest part of editing this was removing all references to the characters Dragon and Fox, who are the characters that Gordon (Richard Harrison) and Paul (Bruce Stallion) interact with from the "other" film. Some of the dialogue was cut, re-edited or removed entirely to ensure that neither of these characters was referred to. Fox does appear briefly in the scene where Paul is shooting his gun, but he is never referred to by name, so we can just assume that he is a mere minion.
I also re-edited some of Paul's dialogue to make it clear that after "Fat Ronald" is killed he orders a hit on Gordon as well, which makes it more clearer that Gordon has to rely on his ninja skills to fight back!
With the character of Dragon now taken out of the film entirely, I decided to re-title the film as "Ninja's Revenge" under my new cut as Dragon isn't there anymore (and the original title didn't make any sense anyway considering that Dragon wasn't a ninja anyway). The film is now purely about a bank manager ... who is also a ninja, funnily enough ... taking revenge for the murder of his friend and business partner, Ronald, who is killed in a scene from the gangster movie. It made sense to keep this scene in this edit as it is the motivation that sets Gordon off on his mission of revenge.
So with the boring stuff about the feuding gangsters removed, the film becomes a lot more coherent (and a lot shorter as well, with a running time of only 20 minutes!). The film now alternates between Gordon either training at an unknown location or fighting against an evil ninja, whilst Paul becomes increasingly more desperate before finally challenging Gordon to a fight to the death himself.
Of course, the film is still a little incoherent at times, characters are introduced and then never seen again for example, but this was the case in the original movie anyway. Not to mention that the dubbing is still deplorable of course! Perhaps if this video doesn't get blocked by a copyright claim then I may attempt to re-edit some of Godfrey Ho's other "classics" for this channel, but I'll go to the extra length of re-recording all the dialogue as well, with myself and some friends doing the voices of the characters.
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Watch my original review of Ninja Dragon here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJWH3le_flc