Five Element Of Ninja Video Download
Esperanza Santrizos
So I have been buying up some arrow video shaw brothers films and really getting back into it. I have a DVD from back in the day called "Chinese Super Ninjas" which I believe IS the same movie as "Five Elmenent Ninjas". On the back of the DVD is a picture of the assassins under the water with the bamboo breathing tubes. The movie I'm talking about is where the heroes fight a series of trails that are associated with the elements like water, wind, etc. .
The definitive ninja movie, even before the infamous ninja craze and an awesome weapons fest, much like Legendary Weapons of China and Heroes of The East. Also, I think this is the first movie to use the Ninja Claws as a Weapon in a fight scene.
Mr. Cheung, the director of the movie, utilized a lot of Japanese elements into his works. His movies demonstrated the art of violence and blood. The female ninja characters in Five Element Ninjas and Shen Tong are the typical icons.
The fight scenes are fast paced and rather excellent, as each Element comes with a new way our heroes have to adapt to fight them. The initial attack on the school is well done and showcase some great ninja scenes, but when the elements take over it gets tossed aside for some strange but cool shots of ninjas posing as trees, ninjas not remotely blending in with the water in a stream, and flashy gold ninjas that look like something from Power Rangers.
A martial arts school challenges their rivals to a contest, but the rival school has an ace up their sleeve: a samurai. However, when the samurai loses the fight, he warns the winners that his Ninja friend will come to avenge his death. The school decides to face a challenge sent by the ninja in form of the five classic Chinese elements.
This flim contains examples of:
- All Girls Want Bad Boys: Senji had Tian Hao spared because she found his childish attitude towards her attractive.
- Bittersweet Ending: The Five Element Formation is beaten and the leader of the ninja is dead, but Tian Hao sacrificed his life to stop him.
- Bloodless Carnage: Nope.
- Elemental Powers: The ninja come in five flavors: Earth, Fire, Water, Wood, and Gold.
- Femme Fatale: Senji
- Good Colors, Evil Colors: The Martial Alliance is in white, while the ninja are all in black.
- Gorn: This film is very bloody.
- Half the Man He Used to Be: The ninja leader gets ripped in half by the heroes.
- High-Pressure Blood: Used a few times in the film.
- Highly-Visible Ninja: The Five Element Ninja, but the gold ninja take the cake with their shiny clothing that in combination with their golden shields is meant to blind opponents.
- Honor Before Reason: The axe-wielding student who loses against the samurai instantly slits his own throat after the samurai tells him in Japan it's customary to kill yourself after losing a fight despite being in China.
- Love Makes You Dumb: Senji's crush on Tian Hao causes her to let him escape from the ninja after they kill his comrades. It also gets her killed.
- The Mole: Senji disguises herself as a girl named Ah Chun to get into the guarded HQ of the Martial Arts Alliance.
- Ninja: Goes without saying.
- Old Master: An old man Tian Hao met earlier teaches him and his allies the way of the ninja.
- Revenge: Xiao Tian Hao decides to get revenge on the ninja that killed his school.
- Rival Dojos: The Martial Alliance faces off with their rivals at the beginning.
- Stock Ninja Weaponry: Used a lot in the film.
- Seppuku: The samurai does this after he loses.
The 5 Elemental Ninjas were a mysterious clan of Japanese assassins whose origins are shrouded in obscurity. One of them, however, was hired to act as a combatant between two clans of Chinese martial artists. He was one combatant out of ten working for Shifu Kang(the other nine were his students) fighting against the Tian Hao school. The ninja in question ultimately lost his duel, but poisoned the Shifu Yun of the other clan with a spiked ring after slicing himself open for his failure, While the master could overcome the poison with his inner power, doing so would make him unable to practice martial arts for one month.
Shifu Yun found a challenge note on the ninja's body, stating the superiority and locations of their ninja clan. While the Yun school could only identify ninja as "a samurai skill", the school sent 8 of their martial artists to Japan to fight their challengers. All of them were trapped by the ninjas, and ultimately died by the ninja's techniques.
The 5 Elements Clan, in a response to this, sent many of their men to team up with Kang's school against Shifu Yun. Whiel Yun's clan expected an ambush, and had his men set up traps to alert any invaders, the ninjas were ultimately able to set fire to his school without being detected, than killed anyone who tried to escape.
Fresh from their conquest, the ninjas killed Mr Kang and took over his school, the leader returning to Japan. One member of Yun's school managed to survive, however, and returned to fight the ninjas. His name is Tian Hao.
Remembering basic ninja training that he received in the past, Hao escapes from his bonds, flees from the ninja and returns to his old ninja master to complete his training. He joins three other students, who help him in his quest for revenge. Hao delivers a challenge to Mudou, who sends four ninjas. After killing the ninjas, Hao and his fellow martial arts students proceed to fight each of the Five-Element Ninjas.
Now well-trained in ninjutsu and aware of the ninjas' trickery, Hao and his fellow martial arts students easily defeat the Japanese ninjas. Mudou, however, proves to be a difficult foe. As the four Chinese ninjas face off against him, he sneaks leg shackles onto Hao. Hao uses a mysterious key his master gave to him to unlock them, and makes many unsuccessful attempts to put them on Mudou. Finally, channeling his rage over the deaths of his master and fellow students, Hao shackles Mudou's legs and pulls him down while his 3 fellow martial arts students speared Mudou. Hao himself is mortally wounded in the process. As his fellow martial arts students enquired as to why he put himself in front of Muduo's spiked feet, he dies.
The ninjas were a clan of assassins, and while all were able to dawn black suits and effectively sneak around at night, they also had other specialties, based off of the 5 elements of Chinese philosophy.
The Metal Ninjas were the least stealthy of the 5 groups, dressing in golden attire and purposely using light to blind opponents. These ninja use long swords as secondary weapons. Their primary weapons, however, were their shields (often worn as hats, as shown in the image above) As well as serving the obvious defensive purpose, they were also used to reflect blinding sunlight into the eyes of their opponents, and can shoot metal blades. These ninjas are based inside of a rocky valley.
The wood ninjas were very focused on stealth, hiding in a forest and striking suddenly and lethally. They all use tiger spikes on their palms, allowing them to more effectively climb trees. They also use standard weapons such as swords and can throw shurikens with sufficient force to go straight through a man and imbed themselves in a tree. Wood ninjas also seem fairly soft, as one was physically worn apart by 4 people with chains.
The water ninjas were, in many ways, the most ridiculous of the clan. They float through a river, under a bridge, with inflated skins around their waists and paddles in their hands, they also carry bamboo shafts to use as snorkels if they have to go underwater, and use long chords to entangle people on the land and pull themselves up.
The fire ninjas, true to their bright element, are less concerned with stealth and more with aggression. Their primary weapons are swords, but they also use smoke bombs to blind opponents and create clouds. These ninja also make patterns of flammable material in their home, a simple field, that they can easily ignite. These ninjas seem to be experts at fighting blind, as they can attack effectively in their own smoke screens.
The Earth ninjas stand at the top of a hill. They will bury themselves under the ground as to increase the surprise when they attack, sometimes jumping from the earth, sometimes merely stabbing upwards. They use spears and hooks as their primary weapons.
A: Five Element Ninjas is known for its elaborate fight scenes and the use of the five elements (metal, wood, water, fire, and earth) as different styles of martial arts demonstrated by the ninja warriors.
Five Element Ninjas is a tale of vengeance, betrayal, and ambition against the backdrop of ninja martial skills and arts. When his school is destroyed and his colleagues all slaughtered by supreme ninja Cheng Yun and his five element ninjas, Tsiau Chin Hau sets out to take his revenge. But stopping the elemental ninjas (gold, wood, water, fire, and earth) is an awesome task. So, Chin studies the secrets of the ninja under the guidance of teacher Yan Yong Fe. Thus armed, Chin and his newfound cohorts Li Yin Win, Chan Sin, and Wan Fong challenge the element ninjas in a climactic battle to the death. Edit Translation
About halfway through this one by Godfrey Ho. Mildy entertaining ninja flick with some horror touches. Featuring Richard Harrison talking seriously through a Garfield telephone Not too much ninja action so far though, but the plot is a bit better developed here than in other Ho ninja flicks.
Just finished watching it. The beginning is not too promising, as the film is all over the place, but it turns out to be a fun flick. Not so much because of the ninja action, which is worse than expected, but more becasue of the fact it becomes a Poltergeist ripoff mixed with sex. A bad film of course, but an entertaining one. Plus Richard Harrison as the red ninja. All in all good enough for me. And good inspiration for my own ninja production.
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