cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/c/action_movies/p/1541440/full-movies-happy-international-ninja-day

Remember, remember the 5th of December. Cuz it's International Ninja Day! How are you going to celebrate?

Here are some legit free ninja movies (& a few shows) (availability varies per country)

• Cinetimes - search "ninja" finds legit sources on Youtube, Daily Motion, Internet Archive, Vimeo

• Fawesome - search "ninja"

• Flixhouse - search "ninja"

• FreeMovies+ - search "ninja"

• iqiyi - search "ninja" you can browse in Firefox but need Chrome or related browser to watch videos

• Mometu - search "ninja"

• Tubi - search "ninja"

• Youtube - The Stream - search "ninja"

• Youtube - The Wu-Tang Collection - Ninja playlist with 64 videos!

Plex won't give a search results page, so here are some specific films, and you can browse the Titles You Might Like On Plex section for similar films

• Death of a Ninja (1982) with Hiroyuki Sanada & Sonny Chiba

• Nine Deaths of the Ninja (1985) with Sho Kosugi. Nine times as deadly as the previous movie?

• Ninja the Protector directed by "Dwight Bolinger", an alias for the infamous Godfrey Ho

• Ninja Immovable Heart (2014) with Danny Glover???

Family-friendly bonus... you know, for kids!

• Ninja Kidz - linear channel

Finally caught this in VCR Party last night, in glorious VHS quality & luxuriant Owncast Blockyscope!

• @vcr@watch.vcr.party
• https://watch.vcr.party/
• https://joinfediverse.wiki/Watch_party

It really is bonkers! In the distant future of 2015, a 10 million-year-old blonde Chinese superwitch in a solid gold bra awakens & commands her demons to conquer the earth, and only a nanotech-augmented Danny Lee and his silver-suited scientist/biker gang can stop them! Thank you, Shaw Brothers & @vcr@watch.vcr.party!

Previously on BMB

• https://piefed.social/post/357929 (locked)

Movie Info

• Wikipedia
• NeoDB

Screenshots

Outside shot of "Science Headquarters". Yes, the very concept of science has a headquarters.

"Princess Dragon Mom". That is honestly what the English dub calls this character.

Princess Dragon Mom's number 2, She-Demon.

Go go gadget Inframan!

Inframan flings "Lobster Bug" (at least that's what the watch party crowd dubbed him) awayyyyyyyyyy.

I never could get a good screenshot of the baddie pawns. Black skeleton suits, black motorcycle helmets with skull faces and big horns. Fabulous!

cross-posted from !action_movies@piefed.social : https://lemmy.ca/post/54517080

For the #MondayActionMovie watch party on Mastodon, it's action thriller Excessive Force II: Force on Force, one of those "sequels" that bear no relation to the film it claims to be the sequel of.

Directed by Jonathan Winfrey (Roger Corman protégé) and starring Stacie Randall (Trancers 4 & 5) and Dan Gauthier, also Tom Wright (Marked for Death, Martial Law TV series), Dan Lauria (The Wonder Years), and action/B-movie stalwart James Lew (Big Trouble in Little China, Shira The Vampire Samurai and Red Sun Rising: Based on the Legend of the Death Touch). Oh, and Mandingo Warrior. (No, that's not the character's name, which is Ernie: that's the actor's name!)

Join us as we watch the movie (each person plays from their own source, e.g. Youtube) and comment live on Mastodon, with the hashtag #MondayActionMovie.

Summary

Harly is a former special forces agent with a bullet in her head, out to get the ex-lover who put it there before he offs a witness.

Trailer

• Youtube

Movie Info

• Wikipedia
• NeoDB

Legit Stream & Download Finder

• Just Watch (adjust for your country)

Time: Monday 3rd November, 8pm US ET

Remember that daylight savings time in the US just ended, so it starts an hour later if your clocks didn't change.

• EveryTimeZone.com - Times around the world for the start of the watch party

Watch party announcement

https://timeloop.cafe/@bunnyhero/115475358787800181

Hosted this week by: @Bunnyhero@timeloop.cafe

In august we watched EXCESSIVE FORCE. now comes the excessively named sequel: EXCESSIVE FORCE II: FORCE ON FORCE. we won't force you to watch this but would love to have you anyway!

press play here {REDACTED YOUTUBE LINK} at 8pm EST monday, nov 3 and toot along at the hashtag #MondayActionMovie !

Join us and throw virtual popcorn at the screen along with the MAM gang!

Watch Party Calendar

• Info on this and other events

Nascent NeoDB Collection

• Eggplant.place - MondayActionMovie

Full movie: The Brain Stealers (1968) on Youtube (Shaw Brothers Cinema licensed channel)

cross-posted from !action_movies@piefed.social : https://piefed.social/post/1382511

For the #KungFuSat watch party on Mastodon, it's the Shaw Brothers mad scientist flick The Brain Stealers, directed by Inoue Umetsugu, starring Lily Ho, Peter Chen Ho and Betty Ting Pei.

Join us as we watch the movie (each person plays from their own source, e.g. Youtube) and comment live on Mastodon, with the hashtag #KungFuSat.

Summary

A mad scientist wants to get his hands on a certain growth-accelerating serum developed by Hong Kong scientist Dr. Li Zong Hua so that he can create an army of supermen and conquer the world.

Trailer

Not a proper trailer; the opening & a couple of other clips

• Youtube

Full Movie

• YouTube (Shaw Brothers Cinema channel)

Movie Info

• My Drama List

• NeoDB

Time: Saturday 18th October, 12pm US ET

• EveryTimeZone.com - Times around the world for the start of the watch party

Watch Party Info

I'm not sure how much kung fu we're in for next week, but it sounds extra halloween-ey.....Take care. See ya soon. https://youtu.be/MUuhnyvj9zU (THE BRAIN STEALERS - 1968, Shaw Brothers Channel, restored & subtitled, region-free link)

Watch Party Calendar

• Info on this and other events

cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/post/1361387

A subway construction crew uncover a mysterious key beside the skeleton of a Medieval Templar knight. This leads to the appearance of the Minion, a demonic entity that is capable of inhabiting and passing through human bodies.

Trailer

• Youtube

Full Movie

Details

Unless otherwise stated, all full movie links I post are for free, no account required, licensed (AFAIK, IANAL) streaming VOD in English (or original language with English subtitles) and work at time of writing in my location, Mexico. Availability and language options may be different in your location. Asterisk by the one I watched.

• Flixhouse *

Legit Stream & Download Finders

Details

The 'nobraincellsleft' link finds legit stream sources from many countries, listed by two-letter code.

The Just Watch link lists legit stream sources only for one country at a time. On the web page, change the country to your location, e.g. change USA to Australia.

Neither is perfect. Check your preferred streamers directly, just in case.

• nobraincellsleft global search

• Just Watch

Movie Info

• Wikipedia

• TMDb 44%

• NeoDB

Comments

There's an ancient, murderous demon that possesses human beings, turning their eyes black, and transfers into another nearby living person when its host is killed, and Dolph Lundgren has to hunt it down before it ends the world even while nobody believes him, and... hey, wait a minute! Didn't I just see that?

I did, I did just see that! Don't Kill It in #MondayActionMovie on 29th September. (See here)

Dolph is a priest and a modern day Knight Templar, here to save souls and kick ass... and he's all outta souls! He saves a pretty Mohawk archaeologist and together they go on the run from the titular Minion who's out to get the key they uncovered to unlock his evil master and the end of the world in time for the new millennium.

Like with Don't Kill It, I was expecting something truly atrocious but got something substantially better than that (although not quite on the same level as DKI).

Screenshots

Dolph puts Andrew Scott to shame in the hot priest stakes!

NOOO! NOT SANTA!!!!!

It's amazing how much money you can save on your movie shoot by having your hero wear a helmet that obscures their face and allows you to film an entire scene with a much cheaper stuntman!

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/52025086

An attorney is forced to fight back after his family is brutally murdered by vicious drug dealers, leading to an astounding martial arts showdown.

Trailer

• Youtube

Full Movie

Details

Unless otherwise stated, all full movie links I post are for free, no account required, licensed (AFAIK, IANAL) streaming VOD in English (or original language with English subtitles) and work at time of writing in my location, Mexico. Availability and language options may be different in your location. Asterisk by the one I watched.

I started watching on Youtube, but after some occasional quality deteriorations, I switched to Fawesome about half way through. Still a low-quality 480p but without the frequent deterioration.

• Youtube * (480p, low quality)
• Fawesome * (480p, low quality)

The Youtube channel is FilmRise, a licensed AVOD film distributor.

• FilmRise Movies YouTube channel
• FilmRise homepage

Legit Stream & Download Finders

Details

The 'nobraincellsleft' link finds legit stream sources from many countries, listed by two-letter code.

The Just Watch link lists legit stream sources only for one country at a time. On the web page, change the country to your location, e.g. change Mexico to Australia.

Neither is perfect. Check your preferred streamers directly, just in case.

• nobraincellsleft global search
• Just Watch

Comments

From 90s straight-to-video action stalwarts PM Entertainment, Don "The Dragon" Wilson stars in this vigilante justice flick as "The Shellsuited Crusader", oops, I mean "The Karate Man", a lawyer/martial arts expert (yes, that's a thing) with selective amnesia (even characters in the movie don't think that's a thing) about the murder of his wife and child.

We know Don's character has a traumatic background thanks to a serious case of the flashbacks, and lines he delivers flatly like "Can't kill a man who's already dead." :D But, of course, watching Don trying to emote tragedy is the real tragedy here.

Well, except for Shari Shattuck's accent. Is it... really bad South African? Or atrocious English? Who can tell?

All the fights, shootouts and explosions we've come to expect from PM Entertainment. But not one of their or Don's best.

With appearances by B movie / action movie figures like Aki Aleong (Kickboxer), Robert Miano (Fear City), Michael DeLano (Commando, Slumber Party Massacre II), Ken McLeod (Double Dragon, Virtual Combat), Todd Curtis (Chain of Command, American Tigers) and Bob Schott (Russ Meyer's Up!, Gymkata).

And while Don's is quite tame, the movie also features some of the most impressive mullets in the industry!

Movie Info

• TMDb 4.9/10
• NeoDB

Screenshots

(The FreeTube video controls are visible in some screenshots but are usually hidden.)

Some casual neck snappery

Your mullet's bigger than mine?! That's a wrist snapping!

Once again, Don proves he can raise an eyebrow.

Getting our money's worth from the stuntmen in the pre-CGI era.

The Shellsuited Crusader in action.

It's hard to suspend disbelief when the stuntman trampolining in front of an explosion has a completely different build and hairline.

Alien invaders plan to conquer our world by dropping a radio-controlled monster that will expand to gigantic size upon entering Earth's atmosphere and feed on humanity... and all on Ahn-hee's wedding day!

The monster seems to execute the carefully thought out plan of attack... of a cat randomly batting things off a table.

Apparently Korea's oldest surviving kaiju movie, and first fully-Korean scifi movie. Apart from a few overlong comic-relief bits, I enjoyed it.

Trailer

• Youtube

Full Movie

• Youtube * (Korean with hardcoded English subtitles, black & white, 1080p)

Bijou Theater is a new AVOD platform for cult, indie, Asian and rare films. I tried getting the Roku app but it's not available in Mexico, but they finally started uploading to their Youtube channel, just some kaiju films so far.

• Bijou Theater YouTube channel
• Bijou Theater homepage

Legit Stream & Download Finders

• nobraincellsleft global search
• Just Watch

Movie Info

• Wikipedia
• IMDb 4.9/10
• MyDramaList 5.9/10

Screenshots

(The FreeTube video controls are visible in some screenshots but are usually hidden.)

The Hyundai Acting School... you know, between the Samsung Institute of Fine Arts and the Lucky Goldstar Music Conservatory

"Hahaha!"

Always nice to have an unstoppable monster

Invaders in orbit

Monster at regular size

"Me, too!"

"Gobgoblin!"

Truly, a glorious sight

Yeah, but King Kong was stop motion, not a bloke in a rubber suit

Speaking of... There's a ~~bloke in a rubber suit~~ monster twixt them thar hills

"You had plans for something special in 1990? Fuck that!"

Oh the humanity... of carrying her off on her wedding day!

Cops with guns? Fighter pilots with rockets? Nope, it's a streetkid with a knife to the rescue!

MFW (monster's face when) there's a kid with a knife inside your nose

cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/post/1214303

For the #MondayActionMovie watch party on Mastodon tonight, it's the biker flick Angel Unchained (a.k.a. Hell's Angels Unchained), with Don Stroud, Tyne Daley, Luke Askew and Aldo Ray, from classic B-movie studio American International Pictures. Join us as we watch the movie on Youtube and comment live on Mastodon.

Summary

Angel is the biker who joins a commune of hippies near a small town. When the town rednecks attack them, Angel calls up some of his bad biker buddies to exact revenge.

Trailer

• Youtube

Info

• Wikipedia

• IMDb 5.1/10

Legit Stream & Download Finders

• NoBrainsCellsLeft Search

• Just Watch (adjust for your country)

Time: Monday 1st September, 8pm US EDT

• EveryTimeZone.com - Times around the world for the start of the watch party

Watch Party Info

This Monday. at 8 pm et, join MAM for ANGEL UNCHAINED (1970)!

On this Labor Day, these bikers are working to change the world!

Watch party announcement with link to full movie on Youtube

• Direct link

• Fedv.link (will open the link via your preferred instance of Mastodon)

Watch Party Calendar

• Info on this and other events (Might be updated with more details)

cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/post/1150586

This week's #KungFuSat watch party on Mastodon features the classic cult action-comedy-fantasy by John Carpenter, starring Kurt Russell, Dennis Dun, Kim Cattrall, James Hong, Victor Wong, Jeff Imada and Carter Wong. Join us!

Trailer

• YouTube

Movie Info

• Wikipedia

• IMDb

#KungFuSat Watch Party Anouncement

• https://fedv.link/mastodon.social/@SesameSquirrel/115000027634956768

Time: Saturday 16th August, 12pm EDT

• Times around the world

Legit Stream Finders

• NoBrainsCellsLeft Search

• Just Watch (Change country to your location)

Soundtrack

• YouTube - Big Trouble in Little China by The Coup De Villes (i.e. John Carpenter & friends)

• Album.link for whole soundtrack

Watch Party Calendar

• Info on this and other events (Might be updated with more details)

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/48317083

cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/post/1019689

Tagline

They will seduce you - just before they kill you!

Elevator pitch

'La Femme Nikita' meets 'Hong Kong's Next Top Model'

Summary

40 kidnapped girls are trained to become smoking hot international assassins. But there can be only one! *

Trailer

• https://youtu.be/mm9ab3CQ2IE

Movie

Details

Unless otherwise stated, all full movie links I post are for free, no account required, licensed (AFAIK, IANAL) streaming VOD in English (or original language with English subtitles) and work at time of writing in my location, Mexico. Availability and language options may be different in your location. Asterisk by the one I watched.

• Tubi - Naked Weapon (2002) (English) * (up to 1080p)

• Plex - Naked Weapon (2002) (English)

Legal stream finders

• https://nobraincellsleft.github.io/JustWatch-Search/title/tm108540

• https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/naked-weapon

Info

• Wikipedia

• IMDb 5.5/10

Personnel

• Director: Tony Ching Siu-tung (Chinese Ghost Story, The Swordsman, Dr. Wai in 'The Scripture with No Words'; action choreographer for Shaolin Soccer)

• Writer & Producer: Wong Jing (Naked Killer, Future Cops)

Cast

• Maggie Q

• Anya Wu

• Daniel Wu

Opinion

Thinking about Category III movies (see here), I searched for Wong Jing-directed Naked Killer but could only find Wong Jing-scripted Naked Weapon. (Which I don't think was rated Cat III.)

Around the world, 40 sporty 13-year-old girls are kidnapped and taken to a tropical island to be trained as assassins... which is, like, totally not an excuse to have six years later lots of sweaty girl-on-girl action in skimpy thin cotton outfits.

With the exception of an unnecessary rape scene (if you want to skip it, it's ||right after they drink the wine Madame offers them||), this actually manages to be a decent action movie, far less schlocky than I was expecting... until the last 20 minutes, when the director decides to dial up the wire fu, bullet time and sappiness to 11.

The film tends to flag every time we get Daniel Wu's CIA agent, but Maggie Q does well in the lead.

A 7 out of 10, imho.

Screenshots

(Suffering a little compression going through various apps and Pixelfed)

Slinky model assassin knows snake style!

Caption should have read "Pew, pew!"

Emotional support soaping

A slice and a miss!

I think I remember this one from the Kama Sutra... the Congress of the Thigh Lock?

Don't show. Tell!

She'll seduce you... just before she kills you!

Is Dennis Chan (Kickboxer, Future Cops)... checking this woman out in her moment of grief???

Commence romance!

Final battle

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/47326997

a.k.a Soldier of Fortune

Tagline

The Future of the world rests on just one man!

Elevator pitch

I... can't even imagine. The "James Bond Holiday Special"?

Summary

Freelance secret agent has to retrieve a kidnapped laser scientist before the bad guys use him and a stolen diamond to develop a superweapon.

Trailer

• https://youtu.be/37i1Adt8OFc

Personnel

• Director: Beau Davis
• Writers: Phillip Guteridge, David A. Frank

Cast

• Brandon Lee
• Ernest Borgnine
• Debi A. Monahan

Info

• Wikipedia
• IMDb 3.5/10

Opinion

This, and Legacy of Rage, were the only movies starring Brandon Lee I still hadn't seen. So when I saw it available on (legit) free streaming, I went for it.

I don't think it's unfair to say it's terrible: the story, the editing, and oh my god the accents! Whether it's so bad it's good, or so bad it's just bad is up to you. Personally, I found it entertaining enough, and Brandon Lee irrepressibly charming enough, to stick through it. (The trailer is Lee being all "grim serious hero", but for much of the film he's winkingly delivering one-liners on a par with Connery or Schwarzenegger.)

I refer to it as the James Bond Holiday Special, because, like the Star Wars Holiday Special, it's incoherent, at times inexplicable, and probably the result of people doing way too much coke.

If you want quality drama and a sensible plot, this ain't it. If you want to see a guy sidekick a baddie into a guillotine, this is your jam!

Here are two reviews, one on each side of the debate:

• So bad it's good: https://talkfilmsociety.com/columns/schlock-value-laser-mission-1989
• So bad it's bad: https://www.pastemagazine.com/movies/bad-movie-diaries/laser-mission-bad-movie-diaries

A Little Bit of Politics...

A whole different issue, though, is the political context of its production. About 10 minutes in, it dawned on me this might be another Red Scorpion.

If you don't know, Red Scorpion, featuring future Brandon Lee co-star Dolph Lundgren, is a 1989 action movie about a hero who fights against assorted Communist baddies in a fictional Portuguese-speaking country in southwestern Africa, that was shot primarily in South Africa and then-South-African-occupied Namibia. Laser Mission ticks all the same boxes.

And Red Scorpion, despite being a "US" movie, turned out to have been produced in part using money secretly funneled from a propaganda wing of South Africa's apartheid regime (thanks to Jack Abramoff of the MPA, later the central figure in multiple Washington corruption scandals).

The fictional southwestern African country was a thin veil for Angola, where South Africa (and, indirectly, the US) was involved in a war against the Communist government there (supported by Soviet, East German and Cuban advisers and troops), which in turn supported liberation movements in Namibia and South Africa.

Whereas Red Scorpion stays relentlessly on message about the need to defeat communism in Africa, meaning the need to support the apartheid regime, Laser Mission doesn't bang on much about the poltics of the situation, and the central casting Soviet baddie does have another agenda. But still...

Movie

All full movie links I post are for free, no account required, licensed (AFAIK, IANAL) streaming VOD in English (or original language with English subtitles) and work at time of writing in my location, Mexico. Availability and language options may be different in your location. Asterisk by the one I watched.

• Tubi - Laser Mission (1989) *
• FreeMovies+ - Laser Mission (1989) (in the web browser, unfortunately nav bars at top and side, also black bars top and bottom)

Legal stream finders

• https://nobraincellsleft.github.io/JustWatch-Search/title/tm156953
• https://www.justwatch.com/uk/movie/laser-mission
• https://reelgood.com/movie/laser-mission-1989
• https://en.kinorium.com/91420/

Screenshots

As you can see, I still need to improve my screenshooting skills without triggering Tubi's interface.

Tubi's interface disappears but FreeMovies+ in a web browser has all that stuff visible all the time. (On a Roku, FreeMovies+ doesn't do this, it gives you proper full screen.)

"¡Soy el capitán Brownface!"

#actionmovies, #legitfreemovies, #brandonlee, #ernestborgnine, #bmoviebonanza