Ninja III: The Domination [DVD]

i like the movie it a good one

Excellent seller, great communication.Well packed product, fast shipping. *****

While one might not consider the film groundbreaking , the transfer is great and clear, the best I have seen the movie. I love the movie, one of my watched since seen on cable back in the day.

How she was in a hundred movies back in the day is crazy. Awesome movie and I wish I could play that arcade game today.

Wonderful! Exactly what I wanted

Finally! A good transfer, high rez copy of this movie, one of my favorites. You either know why, or you don't.I'm sure a better transfer will come along some day, but this will fill the bill until then.

Amazing film of the 80s love those days, so glad I could get this in Blu-ray, thank you

If you've never seen Ninja 3, or don't know how it's the third without a Ninja 1 or 2, don't worry. Anime fans will probably grapple some of the spiritual concepts pretty quick, but the closest we had to compare it to in the 80s was the Exorcist with ninjas. That being said the fight scenes are really fun, and this movie is the perfect ninja/flashdance/exorcist mash-up that you never knew you needed.

I saw this back in the 80s not in theaters but on home video VHS and now on Blu ray. Quite an improvement in picture quality and sound over the old formats from the past. Now this is not a spoiler review but I would say it is a must for those who like ninja and or martial arts movies,the beginning already keeps you on your seat because the action starts right away on the get go. This is just one of those really entertaining low budget ninja movies but you won't regret purchasing this film and that is that no spoiler here.

Ninja III: The Domination on Blu-ray is a must-have for any fan of cult classic ninja movies. This 80s gem is a unique blend of martial arts action, horror, and supernatural elements, all rolled into one entertaining and highly enjoyable film.The movie follows Christie (Lucinda Dickey), a telephone line worker who becomes possessed by the spirit of a ninja after witnessing his death. She is then hunted by the police, who suspect her of committing a string of murders, and by the evil ninja who wants to use her body to return to the living world.The movie features some fantastic martial arts scenes, including some breathtaking sword fights and high-flying acrobatics. But what sets Ninja III apart from other ninja movies is its blend of genres, including elements of horror and supernatural possession. This combination results in some truly unique and memorable moments that you won't find in any other ninja movie.The Blu-ray version of Ninja III: The Domination is a collector's edition that offers stunning visuals and crisp audio, bringing the movie to life in high definition. The special features include audio commentary from director Sam Firstenberg, a making-of featurette, and interviews with the cast and crew, among other bonus materials.Overall, Ninja III: The Domination on Blu-ray is a fun and entertaining movie that is a must-watch for any fan of 80s cult classic films. The movie's unique blend of martial arts, horror, and supernatural elements make for a memorable and highly enjoyable experience. If you're looking for a ninja movie with a twist, then Ninja III: The Domination is the perfect choice. So grab your popcorn, sit back, and enjoy this classic ninja movie on Blu-ray!

If someone ever asks you, "hey, can you tell me what the 1980's were like?" all you'd have to do is pop in this movie, sit back, and watch the expression on their face.Famously, the Golan Globus production company wanted to cash in on three very popular trends: Ninja movies, ghost / exorcism movies, and, inexplicably, Flashdance.Rather than making separate films in each of those genres, they had the absolute genius idea to combine them into one bonkers mashup that eventually became what might be the best 80's movie of all time.Note: I am absolutely NOT calling this the best movie to come out of the 80's. There's a difference. And let's be honest, Ninja III: The Domination, as if the title alone wasn't enough of a clue, is not a very good movie.But it is a great bad movie.And I can't think of any other movie that manages to cram so many cliches from the 1980's into one package.Consider the plot: The film opens with a Japanese man entering a cave that is notable because, 1) it is inexplicably wired for electricity, and 2) it has somehow not been discovered by local teenagers and turned into a spray-painted party spot. The man trades his suit for ninja garb and then proceeds to assassinate a bunch of people at a golf course.As it turns out, this man is the worst ninja in the history of ninjas, because not only does everyone see him in action, but seemingly every single cop in town (and maybe a few dozen from neighboring towns) shows up within 30 seconds of the assassination to chase him down.After being shot approximately 7,946 times, the ninja remembers that ninjas are supposed to be good at disappearing and hiding, so he throws a smoke bomb and buries himself in the ground. This confuses the police so much, that they apparently just give up and all go away, not even bothering to remove the dead bodies of their fallen officers.Not dead yet, the ninja leaves the scene and finds a "Beautiful Woman Doing The Job Typically Viewed As Men's Work." In this case, our protagonist, Christie (Lucinda Dickey), works for the telephone company, because making her a welder would have been a little too close to Flashdance. Despite being accosted by this weird man full of bullet holes and wielding a sword, Christie doesn't run away when she has the chance, but instead takes his sword.Big mistake.Apparently, ninjas store their souls in their swords. Despite having grown up in the 1980's, and thus being forced to extensively study ninja lore (as were we all back then), this was a fact that I was not aware of until this very movie. So now that Christie is in possession of the sword, the sword can now take possession of Christie and transfer the ninja's spirit into her.You see, despite the fact that this ninja was the absolute worst ninja in the history of ninjas when it came to stealth and going unnoticed, he seems to hold a personal grudge against the police who pursued and shot him. Instead of using his second chance at life via the possession of Christie to, oh, I don't know, maybe learn how to do better ninja stuff, he decides to instead use Christie to murder all the cops -- and generally do so in public places, in broad daylight. Some lessons are never learned.As a side plot, one of the cops who was involved in the initial shooting takes a liking to Christie. Christie emphatically says "no" to his advances, so he does what any male lead in the 1980's does: He just assumes she's playing hard to get, so he arrests her. Being arrested for no reason whatsoever by a man she just turned down is apparently exactly the correct method to woo Christie, and the two immediately become a couple, by the next scene acting as though they have been in a relationship together for at least 6 months, despite the events of the film taking place over only a couple of days.There's also a scene involving V8 juice, but that's better experienced than told.Christie eventually figures out that she's being possessed, and she doesn't want anything to do with it. Whenever she feels that little tingle coming on that signifies an oncoming possession, she does that tried and true method of fighting off evil spirits that is...flashdancing, or aerobicizing, or whatever it is she winds up doing. Either way, it doesn't work, and she gets sucked into a closet amidst a bunch of smoke and flashing lights that for just a moment might confuse you into thinking the movie accidentally switched over to Poltergeist. And then Christie starts killing people again.In the meantime, Sho Kosugi arrives on the scene. I'm sure his character has an actual name, but let's be honest here, it's just Sho Kosugi. But not to be confused with Sho Kosugi from Enter the Ninja, or Sho Kosugi from Revenge of the Ninja. All three of these Sho Kosugies are different Sho Kosugies. But it really doesn't matter, because whatever Sho Kosugi you're getting, you can be sure of just one thing: This Sho Kosugi is the best ninja that ever ninja'd and he's here to put a stop to all of the nonsens...

Ninja III is the third in the trilogy of ninja movies put out in the 1980s by the Cannon Group/ Golan Globus production company starring real-life ninjutsu practitioner Sho Kosugi. Interestingly enough, this was the same production group that would try, and astonishingly fail to produce Superman IV a few years after this was made The "ninja trilogy" is only called a trilogy because there were three movies, Enter The Ninja, Revenge of the Ninja, and Ninja III, but they are not a trilogy in the way people typically think of. The plotlines are not connected in any way, and Kosugi plays different characters in each one.Ninja III starts out with a major action sequence in which an evil ninja assassinates some high-ranking and seemingly well-protected individual on a golf course. The ninja ends up being chased by and shot multiple times by an entire police force. As he escapes he transfers his essence to a telephone company worker, played by Lucinda Dickey, and she then proceeds to take revenge on all of the cops. Kosugi enters the picture about a third of the way into the movie as the good ninja trying to stop her.Chances are if you were a kid in the 1980s and were in any way into martial arts you loved this movie and watched it anytime it was on TV. It used to be a Saturday or Sunday afternoon staple on the local stations that played old TV shows in syndication, but I have not seen it on TV in years. So, if you are a fan of the movie this is really the only way to see it anymore.There have been many different versions of the movie after the years on physical media. I am old enough to have owned it on VHS, then picked up the 2013 blu-ray version. That one has a few special features including the trailer and a commentary track from the director and the stunt coordinator. It is a good listen if you like listening to commentary tracks and gives a lot of insight into how the movie was made with all practical stunts, and how the director used the movie Poltergeist as an inspiration. There is also a 2018 collectors edition on blu-ray that has a much-upgraded video transfer and interviews with main cast members Lucinda Dickey and Jordan Bennet.You definitely have to suspend your disbelief when watching the movie and accept that it is not an award winner. It is definitely a B-Level movie, and is, as many 1980s B movies are, very cheesy. It does not really try to be more than it is, and at right around an hour and a half, is not too long. But, as an action movie, it holds up fairly well, as long as you accept it for what it is.

Because are there any other ninja possession movies? The first 10 minutes of this movie is amazing. Ninja shows up at a golf course and murders all the golfers. Why? No one knows. He's then pursued by probably the entirety of the local police department, kills a ton of the cops, and gets shot about 56 times, though he does not die, and he manages to flee. When an electrician / dance aerobics instructor discovers the fatally-injured ninja, he recites some kind of curse and hands her his sword. She is then possessed by his spirit for most of the movie and she goes around the city killing the rest of the cops to exact revenge, though she doesn't ever remember doing this. Oh and she's dating one of the cops. The hairiest one.Really special movie. Very bad in a good way. I wish there was more action like there was in the first 10 minutes, because that was truly amazing, but still a unique story and plenty of excitement throughout.

Every movie like this needs to start with a BANG, and this one doesn't disappoint. The first 15 minutes are truly awesome. You'll especially like this part if you hate golf...or cops. It features some really awesome martial arts sequences.It starts getting a little weird shortly after, when the leading lady starts showing signs of her possession. There's some sci-fi like special effects, and the entire film is full of far-out analog synth sounds, similar (in many cases identical) to the music featured in Revenge of the Ninja (which you watch last because it is the best of the 3). But before long, our heroine starts kicking some major police butt, a task she's well suited for, being in incredible shape and possessed by a master ninja.We don't see much of Sho Kosugi himself until the second part of the movie. Of course, he does plenty of his own incredible fight scenes, in his trademark style, especially at the end.The mystical ninja aspects are a little over the top, with many quite unrealistic high jumps in the fights. But there are also lots of really cool stunts in this flick, involving rope swinging, climbing, and lots of motorcycles. Robbie Knievel even does some of them! Also, I can't be sure, but be on the lookout for a quick cameo of of Ashley Ferrare, the female star of the aforementioned Ninja prequel. Not hard to spot, as she's wearing that same red gi!

I bought this movie because I loved it so much as a kid and thought it was the greatest movie of all time, I was ten going on eleven. I grew up in the 80s during the early years of cable television and family owned video rental stores and the one studio that epitomized bad movies of that decade was Cannon films. They churned out some of the craziest, crappiest, awesome and weird movies for most of my childhood until they came to an end in the early 90s due to poor management and lesser and lesser profits. They are probably responsible for the whole ninja craze that captured the imaginations of myself and my friends and the one that stood out for all of us was Ninja III: The Domination. Only the Cannon Group could create a more insane film that seem to lift from 80s slasher movies, The Exorcist, workout videos and the Loony Tunes. It was rated R but honestly this thing was made for preteen to early teenage boys.The story follows an evil ninja that kills some targeted people and then spends the rest of the beginning of the movie fighting, and killing, what appears to be all the cops in Los Angeles. They keep shooting and he will not go down, but then does a disappearing act similar to Bugs Bunny and gets discovered shortly after the cops split by a young woman who works for the telephone company. He says some sort of incantation to transfer his soul into her so that he can later seek revenge on the last remaining police officers that were trying to kill him. When his soul takes control, she goes out to kill these men and then wakes up wondering what happened and why she is bruised and battered. She also happens to be dating one of the intended victims and he becomes concerned and takes her to a mystic who gets the evil spirit to reveal itself and then informs the boyfriend that "only a ninja can kill a ninja." Just so happens that a good ninja has showed up and he agrees to help pull the spirit out of her and place it back in its original body and then fight it to the death.The blu-ray of the film is awesome and looks great, but the only extras is a commentary track which I admit I have not tried at the time of this review. They actually listed an original trailer, but I found nothing for it in the menu of either disk. This is why it gets four stars. I'm happy to have the film, and love being about to go back to my weird childhood, but it would have been nice to see some extras with the cast sharing stories about this amazing mess of a film.

If the cover and title perk your interest, this movie is probably for you. The hottie on the cover gets possessed by a mighty lethal Ninja who finally, after an amazing amount of punishment gets killed in the opener. A surprisingly good martial arts film, the director and stunt co-ordinator rely on no cgi--cause there wasn't any at this time folks--or trick photography, which would have been more likely. Instead, this is just an array of stunt work at its finest and some older tricks of the trade. The acting is actually pretty good and Shakespearean when compared to films of its time and niche. Sho Kosugi however appears later in the story, and the real star is actress, Lucinda Dickey who convincingly plays a tough "lineman for the county," if you will, who finds herself in a most unwelcome situation. There's definitely a feminist vibe to this one, and extra points for the unusual job, but woman power angle doest appear where you think. The possession doesn't set Christie free. She's already free, fit and secure. The possession is the equivalent of a disease that she wants to be rid of.

N3:TD (which has nothing to do with any of its Ninja movie predecessors) is a Ninja meets Exorcist mashup where an evil Ninja who cuts up a scientist and half the local police department for seemingly no reason at all transfers his soul into a spunky aerobics girl (Lucinda Dickey, va-va-voom!). Spunky girl at various moments gets possessed and dons Ninja suit to kill off the cops that shot down the evil Ninja. It's totally absurd and packed with all manner of 80's cheese. I saw this film more than a dozen times a kid, to the extent where the VHS rental guy began to hide the tape during my visit to the store. It doesn't hold up quite as well now, but is still good brainless fun.Scream Factory's transfer is quite amazing, from the perspective of a guy who had only seen the film in pan-n-scanned VHS form till now. Seeing it in the 16:9 ratio is quite a revelation. The DTS-HD MA 2.0 track is not going to win any awards for immersion, and the sound effects seem to be set a level higher than all the dialog and music, but this is quite likely the original mix for this low-budget exploitation flick and works. The disc has a commentary and a photo gallery for extras but inexplicably no scene selection menu. It would have been great if they could have interviewed Lucinda Dickey.

First of all let me say, thank you Shout! Factory for releasing an excellent audio/visual presentation of this Cannon curio from the 80's, the kind of oddball in the Kusogi Ninja trilogy. While definitely not at the top of my list of favorite Cannon Ninja films, it's nice to see it given a proper release. That being said, being that there are more beloved Cannon/Firstenberg films that fans would like to see receive special editions, or at the very least standard Blu-ray/DVD releases, this release comes as somewhat of a mixed blessing.The real gem of this new release of Ninja III is the very well moderated commentary track by director Sam Firstenberg and stunt coordinator Steve Lambert. This is a commentary track that you can listen to more than once. Both key participants are very enthusiastic and have a lot of memories and details to share not only about this film, but about the entire series of Ninja films produced by Cannon in the 80's.Revenge of the Ninja, American Ninja 1-2 those are excellent films for what they were. American Ninja 3 and 4 and Enter the Ninja a little less so, but, nonetheless, entertaining and beloved films for the fans of the genre. (American Ninja 4 being a personal favorite of mine because it combined both Dudikoff and Bradley.) The film presented here, Ninja 3: The Domination, is, however, probably somewhere at the lower end of that list, just above American Ninja 5. It's great to have this film (the commentary makes it a buy and a really worthwhile experience), but at the same time it's sad that Revenge and the American Ninja films have not received the special edition treatment. It's especially sad that Avenging Force, which is possibly the best of all the Dudikoff/Firstenberg films, has been completed ignored on DVD and Blu-Ray in Region 1.So, this is a great presentation from Shout! Factory as per usual. Shout! Factory is awesome. Here's to hoping that Enter the Ninja, American Ninja 1-4, and the unrelated Avenging Force are given the same presentation eventually. In the meantime, fans of the Cannon Ninja series of films should definitely pick up Ninja III: The Domination, and, hopefully, in the future, we'll see releases of those other films as well.

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I had no clue about the ninja series and when someone reviewed it and said "It is like ninjas with flashdance meets poltergeist mixed in!" Well count me in just out of curiosity. This was the greatest film I have shown at horror night at my house next to Syngenor for comedy value. I have shown better films and I have shown some weird stuff here. But this takes the cake. I won't even tell you about the extras. I haven't gotten into the extras but I wanted to slam a five star review up and then edit it once I get to it. Scream Factory I have bought eight movies from now. They have never failed to take their job seriously. They take time to make the best cut of the film possible, to give you as many extras as possible and make it cost the same as a normal blu-ray film. They love their craft and finding treasures like these used to be impossible but now with them I just wait for them to come out with a new film each month that I remember or like this I don't even know it!!! They are that good at their job that they make me love movies I didn't know I ever would.

Ninja lll is the most fun out the american ninja movies that has always been a childhood favorite & watching it again on blu ray after all these years I can see why I liked it so much! Some would think that the coolest ninja movies would come from japan yet all the ones I own are from chinese and american studios like (super ninjas - duel to the death - shaolin vs ninja) but out the ninja craze from america sho kosugi had the best & if you're gonna have one in your blu ray Ninja lll is the best one trust me I know what cool is and this is one of if not the best scream factory release. Usually I think kino with the Rollin & Bava films & blue underground had a lot of great ones like Argento - Fulci - daughters of darkness also synapse has a couple along with demons l & ll , tenebre , and ph anomana coming out but scream factory has some great ones like (they live - the fog - ninja lll - halloween ll - vampire lovers) This is right up there with revenge of the ninja & way better than american ninja the beginning scene alone is better than american ninja 1-2-3 or 4