History Film / GodfreyHoNinjaMovies

* PublicDomainFeatureFilms: For unknown reasons, nearly all of Ho's movies lapsed into this in the early 2000's after his studio went under; he doesn't seem to mind this though.

Godfrey Ho (alias Benny Ho, Tommy Cheung, Bruce Lambert, Charles Lee, Victor Sears, etc.), a Hong Kong director working together with the equally infamous producers Joseph Lai of IFD Films and Thomas Tang of Filmark, gathered B- and C-movie actors from around the globe to make his legendary Ninja series of films. These usually consisted of a couple of ninja fighting scenes being pasted into a failed or unfinished Hong Kong movie, thus making a new movie out of these shreds. As one might expect, this didn't work out very well, but since many people love ninjas, these movies are still watched today because of their overall [[{{Narm}} narminess]] and their [[CrazyAwesome weird ideas]]. For anyone curious, many of them are PublicDomain and can be viewed on Godfrey Ho's official [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-nx9kPD2bx3_bSjwPUvhbw [=YouTube=] channel]] for free.

* ''Film/NinjaTerminator''
* ''Film/RoboVampire''
* ''Film/ShadowKillersTigerForce''

Godfrey Ho (alias Benny Ho, Tommy Cheung, Bruce Lambert, Charles Lee, Victor Sears, etc.), a Hong Kong director working together with the equally infamous producers Joseph Lai of IFD Films and Thomas Tang of Filmark, gathered B- and C-movie actors from around the globe to make his legendary Ninja series of films. These usually consisted of a couple of ninja fighting scenes being pasted into a failed or unfinished Hong Kong movie, thus making a new movie out of these shreds. As one might expect, this didn't work out very well, but since many people love ninjas, these movies are still watched today because of their overall [[{{Narm}} narminess]] and their [[CrazyAwesome weird ideas]]. For those wanting to experience the madness of these films themselves, they're PublicDomain in the U.S. and can be viewed [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-nx9kPD2bx3_bSjwPUvhbw here]] for free.

* ''Film/{{Undefeatable}}''

** Godfrey Ho actually did this intentionally to make fun of the western popularity of the ninja. He also said that the modern idea of ninjas is a western invention that bears little resemblance to how they actually were in feudal Japan, and therefore it is more realistic for them to be played by western actors. It was, in its own way, a TakeThat of racial stereotypes[[note]]FridgeLogic in that while Mr. Ho is Asian, he's not Japanese, and therefore he's in the exact same position to comment on Japanese stereotypes as any western director would be[[/note]].

* McNinja: There are hardly ever Asian ninjas. Instead, we get Richard Harrison and Pierre Kirby.
** In the earlier movies, the common ninja {{Mook}}s were usually played by Asians, while their leading figures were Caucasians.
*** One might call that racism, if Godfrey Ho himself hadn't been an Asian too.
*** Godfrey Ho did this intentionally to make fun of the western popularity of the ninja. He was also saying that the modern idea of a ninja is a western invention that bears little resemblance to how they actually were in feudal Japan, and therefore it is more realistic for them to be played by western actors. It was in its own way a TakeThat of racial stereotypes[[note]]FridgeLogic in that while Mr. Ho is Asian, he's not Japanese, and therefore he's in the exact same position to comment on Japanese stereotypes as any western director would be[[/note]].

It should be noted that many of thse ''didn't'' feature added ninjas; however, most of the tropes below still apply.

Godfrey Ho (alias Benny Ho, Tommy Cheung, Bruce Lambert, Charles Lee, Victor Sears, etc.), a Hong Kong director working together with the equally infamous producers Joseph Lai of IFD Films and Thomas Tang of Filmark, gathered B- and C-movie actors from around the globe to make his legendary Ninja series of films. These usually consisted of a couple of ninja fighting scenes being pasted into a failed or unfinished Hong Kong movie, thus making a new movie out of these shreds. As one might expect, this didn't work out very well, but since we love ninjas, these movies are still watched today because of their overall [[{{Narm}} narminess]] and their [[CrazyAwesome weird ideas]].

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-->''Born a Ninja, die a Ninja!''

It should be noted that many of Godfrey Ho's [[CutAndPasteTranslation cut and paste translations]] ''didn't'' feature added ninjas; however, most of the tropes below still apply.

* EnemyMine: In ''Ninja Terminator'', heroic ninja Harry and evil ninja Towne must team up to fight off a henchman of the Ninja Empire.

In the eighties, {{Ninja}}s were one of the biggest hypes, making not only thousands of young boys fascinated of weird men in pyjama pants fighting pseudo-kung-fu, but - and that's important - also got many people to buy [=VHS=]s they would have otherwise rejected, just because they included abovementioned weird men in pajama pants.

Godfrey Ho (alias Benny Ho, Tommy Cheung, Bruce Lambert, Charles Lee, Victor Sears, etc.), a Hong Kong director working together with the equally infamous producers Joseph Lai of IFD Films and Thomas Tang of Filmark, gathered B- and C-movie actors from around the globe to make his legendary Ninja series of films. These usually consisted of a couple of ninja fighting scenes being pasted into a failed or unfinished Hong Kong movie, thus making a new movie out of these shreds. As one might expect, this didn't work out very well, but since we love ninjas, these movies are still watched today because of their overall [[{{Narm}} narminess]] and their [[{{Crazy Awesome}} weird ideas]].

Ho's films also inspired the AffectionateParody ''NinjaTheMissionForce'', created by and starring [[Creator/DarkMazeStudios Ed Glaser]] (noted scholar of cheap foreign films) and Creator/BradJones (noted fan of Pierre Kirby).

* TechnicolorNinja: Those ninja costumes come in a whole variety of colours.

This moved the movie industry to create legendary works like the American Ninja quadrilogy or the unforgettable movies with Sho Kosugi, all of which became B-movies still praised today by cineasts all over the world. But one man went a step further...

In the eighties, {{Ninja}}s were one of the biggest hypes, making not only thousands of young boys fascinated of weird men in pyjama pants fighting pseudo-kung-fu, but - and that's important - also got many people to buy [=VHS=]s they would have otherwise rejected, [[InstantAwesomeJustAddNinja just because they included abovementioned weird men in pajama pants]].

* InstantAwesomeJustAddNinja: Whenever the source movie has nothing to do with ninjas, which is most of them.

* ''Film/Undefeatable''

''Film/ShadowKillersTigerForce''

*** Godfrey Ho did this intentionally to make fun of the western popularity of the ninja. He was also saying that the modern idea of a ninja is a western invention that bears little resemblance to how they actually were in feudal Japan, and therefore it is more realistic for them to be played by western actors. It was in its own way a TakeThat of racial stereotypes.

* NeverTrustATrailer: Since most of the trailers consist solely of ninja footage, viewers probably weren't aware that the other 80 percent of the film was of an entirely different drama. Some of the names are outright lies as well: ''City Ninja'' takes place in the country and the suburbs, while ''Bionic Ninja'' has no robots or cyborgs in sight.

* CutAndPasteTranslation: With one part "translation", and three parts "cut and paste".