The Ninja Dragon
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.jpg) Cover of the original VHS release of the film |
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| Directed by | Go Nagai |
| Produced by | Taro Maki |
| Written by | Go Nagai Daisuke Serizawa |
| Starring | Kenji Otsuki Tetsuya Matsui Cutie Suzuki Etsuko Shinkoda Mayumi Ozaki Ikko Furuya Rikiya Yasuoka Katsumi Muramatsu Kobuhei Hayashiya Yoshiaki Umegaki |
| Music by | Takashi Mitsuda |
| Cinematography | Eiichi Osawa |
| Editing by | Yoshifumi Fukazawa |
| Distributed by | Tohokushinsha Film Corporation |
| Release date(s) | 1990-10-25 2002-07-02 (US) 2005-05-24 (Canada) |
| Running time | 70 minutes |
| Country |  Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
Kuso Kagaku Ninkyoden: Gokudo Ninja Dosuryu (空想科学任侠伝 極道忍者ドス竜 Kuusou kagaku ninkyou den gokudou ninja dosu ryuu), better known for its international title as The Ninja Dragon (not to be confused with the 1986 Hong Kong film Ninja Dragon directed by Godfrey Ho), is a Japanese direct-to-video action film released in 1990 by the Tohokushinsha Film Corporation.
It was directed by Go Nagai, his third film as director and his first as a solo director. The film was produced by Dynamic Planning, Moby Dick and the Tohokushinsha Film Corporation. A Laserdisc version was also released in Japan.
It was the first film starring Japanese rock musician Kenji Otsuki. It also features famous female Japanese wrestlers Cutie Suzuki and Mayumi Ozaki, and also Japanese idol Etsuko Shinkoda. The film has cameos of Ken Ishikawa, Chiaki Kawamata, Shintaro Ko, Yoichi Komatsuzawa, Tokitoshi Shiota, Haruka Takachiho, Kunio Nagatani, Kaizo Hayashi, Fujiko F. Fujio, Mari Yagisawa and Tetsu Yano.
A manga was also created by Go Nagai and Shinoyama Isami, and released as a single tankōbon on November 7, 1990 by Kadokawa Shoten. A 219 pages light novel was also released in 1990, written by Kazuo Sakurai and published by Enix, with the ISBN 4900527467 and ISBN 978-4900527461.
[edit] International releases
The film was released by Asia Pulp Cinema in different formats in the United States and in Canada:
- 2002-07-02 subtitled VHS version
- 2002-08-13 dubbed VHS version
- 2002-08-13 subtitled/dubbed DVD version
- 2005-05-24 subtitled/dubbed DVD version (Canada)
[edit] External links
- Kuso Kagaku Ninkyoden: Gokudo Ninja Dosuryu (Japanese) at allcinema
- Kuso Kagaku Ninkyoden: Gokudo Ninja Dosuryu (Japanese) at the Japanese Movie Database
- The Ninja Dragon at the Internet Movie Database
- Kuso Kagaku Ninkyoden: Gokudo Ninja Dosuryu (manga and light novel) (Japanese) at The World of Go Nagai webpage
- Kuso Kagaku Ninkyoden: Gokudo Ninja Dosuryu profile (Japanese) at Moby Dick website
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