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Jason, you have a great memory! Franco Nero was in Die Hard 2. He also played the original Spaghetti Western Django, which Tarantino was influenced by. He is also Vanessa Redgrave’s husband.
I looked him up shortly before Jason had his idea, and none of the films rung a bell for me. Then I read Die Hard 2 and thought "wait, I love that movie, how do I not recognize his face?" But yeah, like Jason said…the facial hair throws you off, but the eyes are an immediate connection to Esperanza. Well, guess I gotta watch Die Hard 2 again asap.
It's always funny to me how Jason has seemingly photographic memory for some obscure b-movie actors, but doesn't know David Attenborough or F Murray Abraham.
@@knubbelidoo Watch the Django movies, they are great if you like westerns. Hitch-Hike with David Hess (Last House on The Left) is great too. He's also in John Wick 2
"You're the whitest man on Earth..." Franco Nero's name translated into English is literally "Frankie Black". His real name is Francesco Sparanero, though. He streamlined it for star quality early on, by taking a couple of syllables out. He's been an actor since 1962, has been in up to five movies per year, and is still working today, at 82 years old. He's a living legend, especially at home in Italy. And like all the older really _busy_ actors who have barely ever taken longer breaks in their careers, like Malcolm McDowell as another example, he's been in tons and tons of weird crap over the years, as well as big-budget mainstream movies and serious arthouse films. I guess he just loves acting.
He lent his voice talents (along with Edwige Fenech) to the new Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats album Nell'ora Blu, the soundtrack to an imaginary giallo film, by way of fuzzed out psychedelic rock/stoner doom metal.
Mike Stone, Elvis Presley’s karate teacher wrote the story for this movie and was supposed to star in it but the Cannon group wanted a franchise and needed a name to sell the film internationally. Mike was the fight choreographer and stunt double for Franco Nero.
Franco Nero is indeed italian. He was the original Django (he had a cameo on the Tarantino one as an hommage). He has also worked in some other of the best non-Sergio Leone spaguetti westerns out there, like Keoma or Compañeros. Also made some classic italian cop movies. He also was Lancelot in the film adaptation of the musical Camelot that Joshua Logan directed, costarring Richard harris and Vanessa Redgrave. He is a bit of a Jack of All Trades. He has worked in shlocky b-c cinema, good and bad tv, some big Hollywood productions and was even co-lead in movies by people like Buñuel and John Huston. With agood script and a good director he can be a really great actor. He has given some stellar performances and some... not so much.
In ancient times they used duels to end a battle, or small war. Today, we are in dire need of the forgotten arts of the Ninja in broad daylight, to fight all wars. And because of capitalism, they would make it a live-event show to profit on the misery & madness. But it would be presented like "Takechi's Castle & American Gladiators", so it would be kinda funny.
Jason, never underestimate your power of actor recognition. Besides Die Hard 2 and playing the origjnal Django; Franco was also recently the Pope in The Pope’s Exorcist.
Susan George is a British actress pretty much known for NOT wearing bras (and losing her shirt). Yes, Franco Nero WAS in Dia Hard 2 and the original Django.
This movie originally did star a Martial Artist, Mike Stone. But then Golan fired him to hire Nero, and then hired Stone back to be Nero's stunt double and fight coordinator when he realized Nero couldn't do Martial Arts.
Thought they already shot the film. Golan didn't like Stone's acting so they reshot scenes of Franco acting while keeping Stone's action scenes therefore giving Stone credit.
@@rathraven1313 in either case Stone got screwed out of what he thought would be a big break for him in movies. Last thing I remember him doing for Canon was playing the lead bad guy ninja in AMERICAN NINJA 2.
Christopher George is a friggin' legend. B-movie icon. Close friend of John Wayne. Marine Corp vet and fought in Korea. Private investigator. Posed in Playgirl.
@@CorpoAgent73 Christopher George had quite the film career in the late 70s/early 80s. The Exterminator, Grizzly, City of the Living Dead, Pieces, this, and Graduation Day - and in the latter, he's called 'George Michaels'.
@@swedesweeper By Nero's own admission, that's true. He says he got the part last minute, did it as a favour to Golan - who he already knew - and didn't know what/had never seen a ninja before. Then again on the latter - it shows just how successful ninjas are, doesn't it?
You don't know who David Attenborough is? Truly, two nations divided by a common language. Although I think your main man there meant Richard Attenborough. Who just happens to be the real-life brother of the aforementioned Dangerous Dave.
Good point. Dave most likely meant Richard Attenborough (considering the hat and beard of the character). But that's one of the reasons why we like Dave. A few videos ago he said that he once visited The Queen Mary ship which, according to him, "it's the sister ship of the Titanic" :)
@@JasonBrant Franco Nero was also in the 2012 Django Unchained as Amerigo Vessepi as a cameo in the mandingo fighting scene. He was at the bar with Jamie Foxx when he said “The D is silent”, to which Amerigo responded, “I know.”
He also has a cameo on Quentin Tarantino's Django and is the south american dictator in Die Hard 2 (which you said like 20 seconds later in the video after I paused to type this =P).
I'll always remember this movie for the weird circus music and Christopher George's amazing death scene. 80s ninja movies are really something special.
Jason superpower is recognizing random actors from random movies. Brian's is naming car models. Sometimes even right. Erin's superpower is spotting pinky-rings. And finally we know Dave's super power: spotting beers on movies!! The team is assembled. (14:22 love that image of you three)
Fun review, as always! Though not the first ninja movie (1980's Chuck Norris opus THE OCTAGON gets that distinction--if we're not counting the ninja action in the 1967 007 epic YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE), ENTER THE NINJA really did kick off the ninja craze of the 1980s. And Franco Nero was indeed Gen. Esperanza in DH2, as well as the original DJANGO!
Franco Nero is the one of the holy Trinity of the bad MF genre, You got Charles Bronson in America, Sonny Chiba in Japan and Franco Nero in Italy, and yeah Jason is right , he was the general in Die Hard 2 , and he also had a Cameo in Django unchained since he was the original Django, and also he was in Jhon Wick 2
This was my introduction to NINJA movies 🎬 🎞 🎥 I remember renting this as a little kid and having my mind absolutely BLOWN! Th3 next chance I got, I bought some Ninja magazines at Mr Paperback and wanted to buy those cool shoes the ninjas wear 😂 So glad you guys made it full circle and came back to the beginning of the series
My father was a VHS recording enthusiast, and he would find stuff for me to watch. This movie was one of them! I must have watched it a thousand times or more, so stoked you featured it.
At last! I had been waiting for this moment for so long and it finally happened. Now your journey to perceive the way of the ninja by watching through Cannon ninja trilogy is complete 😂 This movie is absolute gold from Franco Nero as sweaty hairy moustached ninja hero, Sho Kosugi as ninja villain with eyeliners to Christopher George's hilarious death scene in Naked Gun style "Ted!...Why?!!" , ridiculous action scenes and messy plotline. Whole package, for sure!
Franco Nero has a cameo in Django Unchained as well as being the original Django. Susan George was the wife of Dustin Hoffman in Sam Peckinpah's "Straw Dogs".
19:40. Of all the random, nobody, who-is-that? obscure names you can remember at the drop of a hat, DAVID ATTENBOROUGH doesn't immediately come to mind?! 🤣
Hollywood Ninja are so much more fun than their historical counterpart (Shinobi no mono). They were basically just Samurai who were the ancient Japanese equivalent of our CIA & special forces operators.
Yes brian that was him. Thats great. This actor has done over 100 movies and tv credits and he is remembered for die hard 2. The wife of his friend and the main villain are married in real life and have done at least a dozen movies together
I thought I recognized this. 30:24 is one of the most infamous bad death scenes in movie history. He falls over with a look on his face and gesturing like he’s saying “That’s all I got!”
I have fond memories of watching this movie on TV and Franco Nero has a glorious mustache in this film. Also, Dave was on fire for most of this episode with the jokes. Also, this movie has one of the funniest ninja star kills in all of cinema.
I think the old man played the grandfather in the Original Silent Night, Deadly Night. Christopher George seemed to be the only guy who knew what kind of movie he signed up for and had fun with it.
_Kanpai_ is basically the Japanese "Cheers!" Though it literally means "Dry _sake_ cup." or more figuratively "Drink your cup dry." (Though you do not have to chug it.) I like when you get little bits of accuracy in older, lower budget movies, because it means that someone in the production really liked the material on some level.
Hi Jason, the title of ENTER THE NINJA is in germany NINJA-DIE KILLERMASCHINE and I first watched it when it came out on VHS in the early 80's with my dad. I loved it, it was so great and still is. In those days it was the very first NINJA-MOVIE for us and from this day everybody went NINJA-CRAZY...when someone in school asked you if you know NINJA- DIE KILLERMASCHINE and you answered YES, you were part of the NINJA-CLUB. We created our own NINJA-THROWING STARS and played NINJAS, we even ran like them, oh man😂. Back in the 80's I never asked myself if the Original DJANGO is really that good in Ninjitsu. OK it was quite easy to perform the Martial Arts Fights with a Stunt Man because of the mask the Ninja is wearing. Even if I know more today about CANNON and FRANCO NERO I still love this movie, it was my first contact with Ninjas and come on, look in FRANCO NERO'S deadly steel-blue eyes and ENTER THE NINJA!
My uncle took me to see Enter the Ninja, I remember liking it. As for the San Miguel's, we'll in 1991 I was in the Phillipines "Subic Bay", as a Marine, Dessert storm was in full swing, Billy Joe was playing for the USO, and the best drinks in the town of Alongapoo was San Miguel and RedHorse. Thanks for the memories. Ho-raw Devildogs.
This was the first ninja movie I saw and it launched the Ninja craze in the US and like a lot of Cannon movie is full of people who have stared in big budget and classic movies.
I remember Franco Nero from "Force Ten from Nazarone." where he gots shot and killed on the train for being a spy. The tension while Robert Shaw was interrogating him was palpable.
The old guy who you guys called David attenborough and the Last Action Hero golden ticket guy was the Grandpa in Silent Night Deadly Night, who says "Santa only gives presents to them who are nice, the naughty ones he punishes".
Damn Jason. You nailed it. It IS the general from Die Hard 2. To me Franco Nero looks like Ole Anderson if he didn't have that classic wrestler's body shape from the 70's.
although i am sure you have already looked this up, but Franco is a well known Italain actor who has a huge catalog of movies and shows. you were correct in the Die Hard 2 call, but you might also remember him, if you ever seen them, in the original Django movies from the 70's. i give you kudos for the roll-a-decks brain you got!
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Dave's beard is so good that it makes Hulk Hogan's beard look very very bad
@@ashm3228 yeah it really suits him
Here's the thing guys. They had a choice of hiring a martial arts guy or hiring Franco Nero.
As far as I'm concerned, they made the right choice.
Italian!
Nero also starred as Lancelot in Camelot, with Richard Harris and Vanessa Redgrave.
The husband guy looked and sounded like Great Value James Caan.
Thanks! This movie is bonkers!
Ahh, I can see that.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_George
I've heard the ssme joke made on other reviews of this.
Jason, you have a great memory! Franco Nero was in Die Hard 2. He also played the original Spaghetti Western Django, which Tarantino was influenced by. He is also Vanessa Redgrave’s husband.
Im screaming HE’S DJANGO!
230+ movies! He's the Italian Anthony Hopkins!
I looked him up shortly before Jason had his idea, and none of the films rung a bell for me. Then I read Die Hard 2 and thought "wait, I love that movie, how do I not recognize his face?"
But yeah, like Jason said…the facial hair throws you off, but the eyes are an immediate connection to Esperanza.
Well, guess I gotta watch Die Hard 2 again asap.
It's always funny to me how Jason has seemingly photographic memory for some obscure b-movie actors, but doesn't know David Attenborough or F Murray Abraham.
@@knubbelidoo Watch the Django movies, they are great if you like westerns. Hitch-Hike with David Hess (Last House on The Left) is great too. He's also in John Wick 2
This film holds a special place in my heart. I remember asking my grandma to pick up "Enter The Dragon "at Blockbuster and she got this instead.
Lol, nice work Grandma. xD
Your grandma is a legend.
Grandmas always always come through -in their own way.
Hey grandma, can we get enter the dragon?
Grandma: we have enter the dragon at home.
Lol
That is hysterical 😂
14:10 the sheer excitement of drinking the same beer as the movie🤣🫨
We're simpletons 🤣
It doesn’t look like the bottle changed in fifty years! 😂
I’ve said it before, if I ever get a band together I’m calling it Ninjas In Broad Daylight
🤣
Great band name!
Ninja Day Shift
Broad Daylight in White might be mine.
Your first single needs to be “Cardboard Boxes”
Dave's laughter is pure serotonin.
Jesus Christ; he IS the general in Die Hard 2…
We’re lucky Jason only uses his powers for good.
It's the only thing I'm good at.
Actor's name: Franco Nero. He played Gen. Ramon Esperanza in Die Hard 2.
@@leoa4c He was also the original Django.
9:31: You are indeed correct. Franco Nero was General Esperanza in Die Hard 2.
Esperanza! I couldn't recall that name.
My favorite part of the movie:
"Ah. Freedom."
*punch* "Not yet!"
"You're the whitest man on Earth..." Franco Nero's name translated into English is literally "Frankie Black". His real name is Francesco Sparanero, though. He streamlined it for star quality early on, by taking a couple of syllables out.
He's been an actor since 1962, has been in up to five movies per year, and is still working today, at 82 years old. He's a living legend, especially at home in Italy. And like all the older really _busy_ actors who have barely ever taken longer breaks in their careers, like Malcolm McDowell as another example, he's been in tons and tons of weird crap over the years, as well as big-budget mainstream movies and serious arthouse films. I guess he just loves acting.
He lent his voice talents (along with Edwige Fenech) to the new Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats album Nell'ora Blu, the soundtrack to an imaginary giallo film, by way of fuzzed out psychedelic rock/stoner doom metal.
@@CorpoAgent73 wow, I've heard it, it's great
Mike Stone, Elvis Presley’s karate teacher wrote the story for this movie and was supposed to star in it but the Cannon group wanted a franchise and needed a name to sell the film internationally. Mike was the fight choreographer and stunt double for Franco Nero.
Good ol' Cannon. They hired a guy who can't fight because they wanted a better actor. And then they dubbed his voice.
and Stone hooked up with Priscilla.
art imitates life
🤟🤯
Dave is a legend. Just see the bit where you tell him you've got Philipino beer 😂😂😂😂
Franco Nero is indeed italian. He was the original Django (he had a cameo on the Tarantino one as an hommage). He has also worked in some other of the best non-Sergio Leone spaguetti westerns out there, like Keoma or Compañeros. Also made some classic italian cop movies. He also was Lancelot in the film adaptation of the musical Camelot that Joshua Logan directed, costarring Richard harris and Vanessa Redgrave. He is a bit of a Jack of All Trades. He has worked in shlocky b-c cinema, good and bad tv, some big Hollywood productions and was even co-lead in movies by people like Buñuel and John Huston. With agood script and a good director he can be a really great actor. He has given some stellar performances and some... not so much.
I like his movie (don't remember the name) about travelling couple and a killer hitchhiker. The ending was pretty badass.
@@rickastley2308 Might it be Hitch Hike from 1977?
He's in John wick 2 also I believe. The guy in charge of the Italian Continental
@@Dacre1000 yeah, that's the movie. Aka 'Autostop rosso sangue'.
7:55 I love how Dave looks like he just took half a dozen bong rips before filming every time he starts drinking.
Yeah... _"Looks like"..._ exactly.
Long live Cannon!! And 1980's daytime Ninjas.
Love me some daytime ninjas!
@@JasonBrantIt could be worse they didn't use day for night.
I'm sad Cannon never did a team up with Franco Nero and Chuck Norris.
@@JasonBrant There's really bad ghost movie called The House Where Evil Dwells. It's set in Japan, it has samurai swords & floppy is in it too
In ancient times they used duels to end a battle, or small war.
Today, we are in dire need of the forgotten arts of the Ninja in broad daylight, to fight all wars.
And because of capitalism, they would make it a live-event show to profit on the misery & madness.
But it would be presented like "Takechi's Castle & American Gladiators", so it would be kinda funny.
Jason, never underestimate your power of actor recognition. Besides Die Hard 2 and playing the origjnal Django; Franco was also recently the Pope in The Pope’s Exorcist.
I saw The Pope's Exorcist, but didn't recognize him. Damn!
Susan George is a British actress pretty much known for NOT wearing bras (and losing her shirt).
Yes, Franco Nero WAS in Dia Hard 2 and the original Django.
"Who is going to unlock the proper finger combination?"
I think "Floppy" might know.
Matt Damon!
haha!
based on what the husband tells us, I suspect she knows a great deal about hidden fingertechniques.
Well judging by the title at least one ninja entered something.....
Did he enter the dragon?
Or GOT entered 😂
@@dr.burtgummerfan439 he got pegged by nunchucks
Definitely some entering.
My exact thought…”Enter the Ninja enters the wife?” Okay then.
This movie originally did star a Martial Artist, Mike Stone. But then Golan fired him to hire Nero, and then hired Stone back to be Nero's stunt double and fight coordinator when he realized Nero couldn't do Martial Arts.
Thought they already shot the film. Golan didn't like Stone's acting so they reshot scenes of Franco acting while keeping Stone's action scenes therefore giving Stone credit.
@@rathraven1313 in either case Stone got screwed out of what he thought would be a big break for him in movies. Last thing I remember him doing for Canon was playing the lead bad guy ninja in AMERICAN NINJA 2.
Christopher George is a friggin' legend. B-movie icon. Close friend of John Wayne. Marine Corp vet and fought in Korea. Private investigator. Posed in Playgirl.
He's good with death scenes too.
@@CorpoAgent73 Christopher George had quite the film career in the late 70s/early 80s.
The Exterminator, Grizzly, City of the Living Dead, Pieces, this, and Graduation Day - and in the latter, he's called 'George Michaels'.
The Nunchaku training scene 🤣 Probably the first time Franco Nero was holding a nunchaku 🤣
For real. That was brutal.
@@swedesweeper By Nero's own admission, that's true.
He says he got the part last minute, did it as a favour to Golan - who he already knew - and didn't know what/had never seen a ninja before.
Then again on the latter - it shows just how successful ninjas are, doesn't it?
Franco Nero and his epic ninja mustache and Susan George and her two huge talents.
Definitely some entering on set was being done.
haha
10:05 - Susan George's character is married to Discount James Caan.😄
I use to think that was Cann's bro or something
Ha! I was telling my sister the same and she was like "eeeh I guess he kinda looks like him..."
I knew I was right!
I remember watching this every time it aired on Showtime. I loved it! That was back in the 80’s. I was younger and easily impressed.
The same beer?! Truly epic
30:15 It's time for one of the most cinematic deaths in film history.
Never gets old. 😂
You don't know who David Attenborough is? Truly, two nations divided by a common language.
Although I think your main man there meant Richard Attenborough. Who just happens to be the real-life brother of the aforementioned Dangerous Dave.
Good point. Dave most likely meant Richard Attenborough (considering the hat and beard of the character). But that's one of the reasons why we like Dave.
A few videos ago he said that he once visited The Queen Mary ship which, according to him, "it's the sister ship of the Titanic" :)
Franko Nero was in the original 70s Django movies
Sadly, I haven't watched those.
1966..But the original..:)
@@JasonBrant Franco Nero was also in the 2012 Django Unchained as Amerigo Vessepi as a cameo in the mandingo fighting scene. He was at the bar with Jamie Foxx when he said “The D is silent”, to which Amerigo responded, “I know.”
He also has a cameo on Quentin Tarantino's Django and is the south american dictator in Die Hard 2 (which you said like 20 seconds later in the video after I paused to type this =P).
@@JasonBrantFranco Nero was also the drug lord guy Ramon Esperanza in Die Hard 2. He died when Bruce Willis blew up his plane and ejected out.
The lead was in "Force 10 From Navarone." While the lead baddie was in "Grizzly."
The hook hand guy was on Grizzly? I can’t place him
Oh wait never mind… the park ranger guy!
@@michmasharts8870yup yup. The devil in the blue dress in this one. 😊
@@movalboy I LOVE me some Grizzle tho 🐻
Haven't seen either of those yet.
I'll always remember this movie for the weird circus music and Christopher George's amazing death scene. 80s ninja movies are really something special.
"The leather, fuck these chairs. I just got this carpet." 😂😂😂😂
Jason superpower is recognizing random actors from random movies.
Brian's is naming car models. Sometimes even right.
Erin's superpower is spotting pinky-rings.
And finally we know Dave's super power: spotting beers on movies!!
The team is assembled.
(14:22 love that image of you three)
25:33... I wanna know what he said SO bad! 😂
Me too!
This.
Probably mentioned the man that was the leader in Germany in WW2 since they mentioned genocide
Loved this back in high school.
I can see why!
Ninja III is easily one of the top 5 aerobics/ninja movies ever made.
Best ad for V8 ever.
So...what are the rest of the top 5?
Just this side of "Gymkata"! 🤣
Best opening of the 3
Nero is the military dictator in die hard 2. He was the one the bad guys were getting out kinda!
I got there eventually!
Fun review, as always! Though not the first ninja movie (1980's Chuck Norris opus THE OCTAGON gets that distinction--if we're not counting the ninja action in the 1967 007 epic YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE), ENTER THE NINJA really did kick off the ninja craze of the 1980s. And Franco Nero was indeed Gen. Esperanza in DH2, as well as the original DJANGO!
Franco Nero is the one of the holy Trinity of the bad MF genre, You got Charles Bronson in America, Sonny Chiba in Japan and Franco Nero in Italy, and yeah Jason is right , he was the general in Die Hard 2 , and he also had a Cameo in Django unchained since he was the original Django, and also he was in Jhon Wick 2
This was my introduction to NINJA movies 🎬 🎞 🎥 I remember renting this as a little kid and having my mind absolutely BLOWN! Th3 next chance I got, I bought some Ninja magazines at Mr Paperback and wanted to buy those cool shoes the ninjas wear 😂 So glad you guys made it full circle and came back to the beginning of the series
They actually gave you the definition of a ninja 50 minutes into the third movie in the ninja trilogy.
"What if Black is like the Supervisor?"
Me: So you are saying hes the HNIC? LOL
This movie is a classic example of why I'm not friends with ninjas anymore.
Gutsy to cast time-travelling Jonah Hill as the hook-hand guy
hey, thats mean. No need to insult hook-hand guy 🤣
A Canon Ninja movie??? I thought Christmas wasn't til December?? ❤❤
"have we seen a bad cannon film?" says the people who have very clearly never seen Keaton's Cop 😅
That's a, "the universe conspired" moment!😂😂😂😂
The "baby face" in White suite at the end is Michael Duddikof
7am in Alaska, coffee and dabs ready to go, LET'S DO THIS!!!!
Seen this, love this, LOVE NINJAS!!!!
ON WIT DA FUN
Hell yeah. Can't beat a Cannon ninja film.
@@JasonBrant not even with another Cannon ninja film?🤣🤣🤣
27:00 the gun shot was in the SAME ROOM let alone house...🤣🤣🤣🤣
My father was a VHS recording enthusiast, and he would find stuff for me to watch. This movie was one of them! I must have watched it a thousand times or more, so stoked you featured it.
At last! I had been waiting for this moment for so long and it finally happened.
Now your journey to perceive the way of the ninja by watching through Cannon ninja trilogy is complete 😂
This movie is absolute gold from Franco Nero as sweaty hairy moustached ninja hero, Sho Kosugi as ninja villain with eyeliners to Christopher George's hilarious death scene in Naked Gun style "Ted!...Why?!!" , ridiculous action scenes and messy plotline.
Whole package, for sure!
Franco Nero has a cameo in Django Unchained as well as being the original Django. Susan George was the wife of Dustin Hoffman in Sam Peckinpah's "Straw Dogs".
I grew up loving these films as a kid in the early 80's....Sho was a hero to me back then, brings back so many memories...❤😅❤
30:24 I love that part. He's like I don't know what to do here, so I'll just do a gesture.
19:38 This guy was the creepy Grampa in Silent night deadly night.
That's it! Thank you. My mental Rolodex is nothing like Jason's.
One of the very first VHS movies my parents let me rent, way back in the days when they also had Betamax copies in the Blockbuster.
31:18 you know Dave is drunk when he can’t even see the movie!! 😂😂
“He’s never known a woman’s warmth” 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Dave’s been watching GoT
Ninjas during the day time is only way to be effective, and like a real ninja lol 😂
Awwwwwwwwe yeah!!! Ninja's during the day!
A Cannon staple!
30:15 When I realized this was the movie with THE best death scene in ninja movies.
19:40. Of all the random, nobody, who-is-that? obscure names you can remember at the drop of a hat, DAVID ATTENBOROUGH doesn't immediately come to mind?! 🤣
Dave is the reason this time for the like. From trying to drink the beer from Jason's hands to his comments 😂
That waterfall jump scene in the beginning looks like the same location where Arnold got yeeted in Predator.
Yup
Hollywood Ninja are so much more fun than their historical counterpart (Shinobi no mono). They were basically just Samurai who were the ancient Japanese equivalent of our CIA & special forces operators.
I like how the red, white and black ninjas colour coordinated their weapons.
Yes brian that was him. Thats great. This actor has done over 100 movies and tv credits and he is remembered for die hard 2.
The wife of his friend and the main villain are married in real life and have done at least a dozen movies together
Franco Nero beside general esperanza in die hard 2, did a bunch of spaghetti westerns, and he was in john wick 2, he was the "italian winston" of Rome
Hey, I recognize that sequence at 30:16 from a “bad acting” compilation I’ve seen elsewhere on RUclips!
This was Dave's episode, all the jokes and comments (and beer) had him really loving life.
Ninja Trilogy complete! This is one of the most entertaining of the three.
I thought I recognized this. 30:24 is one of the most infamous bad death scenes in movie history. He falls over with a look on his face and gesturing like he’s saying “That’s all I got!”
I have fond memories of watching this movie on TV and Franco Nero has a glorious mustache in this film. Also, Dave was on fire for most of this episode with the jokes. Also, this movie has one of the funniest ninja star kills in all of cinema.
I think the old man played the grandfather in the Original Silent Night, Deadly Night. Christopher George seemed to be the only guy who knew what kind of movie he signed up for and had fun with it.
YES! Thank you for doing one of my favorite movies. Please do the entire Ninja trilogy!
CORRECTION: This makes the trilogy’s completion. Apologies.
Dude you’re bringing back all kinds of memories from my childhood!
_Kanpai_ is basically the Japanese "Cheers!"
Though it literally means "Dry _sake_ cup." or more figuratively "Drink your cup dry."
(Though you do not have to chug it.)
I like when you get little bits of accuracy in older, lower budget movies, because it means that someone in the production really liked the material on some level.
I knew it was basically Japanese "cheers" because of the Yakuza/Ryu Ga Gotoku games
I love this series. Also I, too, am wearing my Molokai Cargo shirt and drinking San Miguel lol. What a day.
Franco Nero was the original Django and had cameo in the QT film when Leo Dicaprio is introduced as Calvin Candie
Wow, that coupon code 😂. As soon as I heard Erin say "Jason5" the first time, my brain immediately went "Jason5 is alive!" 😂😂.
Franco’s work in Euro crime movies is outstanding
20:00 remember when fighting someone to gently place the enemy on the ground so they dont hurt their backs! lol
@ 9:30...Amazing how Jason can recognize all these movie stars. Franco Nero was indeed in Die Hard 2.
Hi Jason,
the title of ENTER THE NINJA is in germany NINJA-DIE KILLERMASCHINE and I first watched it when it came out on VHS in the early 80's with my dad.
I loved it, it was so great and still is. In those days it was the very first NINJA-MOVIE for us and from this day everybody went NINJA-CRAZY...when someone in school asked you if you know NINJA- DIE KILLERMASCHINE and you answered YES, you were part of the NINJA-CLUB. We created our own NINJA-THROWING STARS and played NINJAS, we even ran like them, oh man😂.
Back in the 80's I never asked myself if the Original DJANGO is really that good in Ninjitsu.
OK it was quite easy to perform the Martial Arts Fights with a Stunt Man because of the mask the Ninja is wearing.
Even if I know more today about CANNON and FRANCO NERO I still love this movie, it was my first contact with Ninjas and come on, look in FRANCO NERO'S deadly steel-blue eyes and ENTER THE NINJA!
100 % pure ninja cheese love it. I was 10 when this came out and saw it. Awesome 80s ninja!!
No wonder there are no ninjas left, they massacred each other in training drills.
Easily one of youre best episodes ever, well done guys!
No shout-out for Susan George during the credit role??? What a shame! She was a hottie back in the day!
My uncle took me to see Enter the Ninja, I remember liking it.
As for the San Miguel's, we'll in 1991 I was in the Phillipines "Subic Bay", as a Marine, Dessert storm was in full swing, Billy Joe was playing for the USO, and the best drinks in the town of Alongapoo was San Miguel and RedHorse.
Thanks for the memories. Ho-raw Devildogs.
This was the first ninja movie I saw and it launched the Ninja craze in the US and like a lot of Cannon movie is full of people who have stared in big budget and classic movies.
I saw this when it was released in theaters. I loved the campeness of it.
As a Brit, susan George is a pretty famous actress, you'll probably know her from straw dogs
I remember Franco Nero from "Force Ten from Nazarone." where he gots shot and killed on the train for being a spy. The tension while Robert Shaw was interrogating him was palpable.
The graduation/training exercise was the best part, while the final fight with sho was awesome
TARS: "...and the beer ......is........lined up!"
Cooper: "Initiating spin!"
The old guy who you guys called David attenborough and the Last Action Hero golden ticket guy was the Grandpa in Silent Night Deadly Night, who says "Santa only gives presents to them who are nice, the naughty ones he punishes".
"You see Santa Claus tonight you better run boy....you better run for your life" he also played old man Peabody in Back to the Future.
Damn Jason. You nailed it. It IS the general from Die Hard 2. To me Franco Nero looks like Ole Anderson if he didn't have that classic wrestler's body shape from the 70's.
"This is why they didn't make supervisor" 😂😂😂
although i am sure you have already looked this up, but Franco is a well known Italain actor who has a huge catalog of movies and shows. you were correct in the Die Hard 2 call, but you might also remember him, if you ever seen them, in the original Django movies from the 70's. i give you kudos for the roll-a-decks brain you got!