MotW: Ninja - Shadow of a Tear

For some reason I never see Ninja movies on streaming services. This is a genre that is very underexposed.

Since we've been talking about so many ninja movies, here's something that should have been posted by now: the last practitioner of ninjitsu reacts to ninjitsu in movies:




This was a very eye opening lecture for me personally because I had always been misled about the truth of ninjitsu by movies and especially video games. Movies and games depict ninjitsu as a form of fighting, or martial art. In reality, it was actually strictly a form of espionage; any actual fighting techniques used by ninja was just resorting to samurai style of sword fighting. If a ninja had to resort to fighting, it basically means that they failed the mission. Ninjas were never used as assassins, only spies, and detection/discovery was an instant mission failure.

If he complains that much about ninjitsu in movies and TV, just imagine what he would think of ninjitsu in games. Looking back, I don't think I've played a single video game that even came close to getting ninjas right. In video games, ninjitsu is ALWAYS portrayed as a martial art, ESPECIALLY in fighting games like Dead or Alive (that's another reason to dislike Dead or Alive). Even beat-em-ups and platformers like Ninja Gaiden and Shinobi have absolutely nothing to do with real life ninjitsu. This just goes to show how much the entertainment industry lies to us about everything. I've learned to be skeptical about all this stuff as I see it on my screen.

It makes perfect sense that he's planning on laying the practice of ninjitsu to rest, as it really doesn't have any usage in modern day society whatsoever since technology like microphones, cameras and drones completely fill the purpose of a ninja and render ninjitsu totally irrelevant.

I hate to break it to you, but that "ninjitsu" you studied isn't actually ninjitsu. It's bullshit. You went to the "Hollywood upstairs medical college" equivalent of a ninjitsu dojo. Many of these american "dojos" have been exposed as fake (just look at Steven Seagal's). People have even been making videos on this subject recently:



The way I see it, I can either choose to believe ninja grandmaster Jinichi Kawakami about ninjitsu, I could choose to believe the entertainment industry about ninjitsu, or I can choose to believe americans about ninjitsu. Yeah, I think I'll stick with the former.

Cool story bro.


Hate to say this, but I have to split now. I'm wanted back on planet earth.

Tenchu: Stealth Assassins series. Its ninjas suck at fighting, so they have to move within the shadows, be stealthy, silent killers and remain unseen. Like cowards.

... Which is why Ninja Gaiden is still the most realistic portrayal in video games. Ninjas use their power to fly around cutting heads and Izuna Dropping people who explode in ludicrous gibs:




cobretti - Wasn't Frank Dux portrayed by Van Damme in that documentary called Bloodsport? Love that film, one of the best journalistic documentaries ever done about underground fighting, I learned a lot from it.

I watched the first one and it kinda sucked so I didn't bother with part 2. The 80's Ninja movies are still the best ones even though if you want Ninja I suggest anime.