Blu-ray release: ‘New York Ninja’
By Phil Mills | Nov 2, 2021
The 2021 American martial arts film ‘New York Ninja’ is now available to own on Blu-ray, courtesy of Vinegar Syndrome.
Originally shot in 1984, the project was abandoned during production resulting in all original sound materials being lost over time. 35 years later, Vinegar Syndrome acquired the original unedited camera negative and painstakingly constructed and completed the movie using the vocal talents of several genre favourites.
Directed by John Liu and Kurtis Spieler, the film follows a sound technician for a news station who becomes a vigilante ninja in New York City after his pregnant wife is murdered. The cast includes John Liu and Adrienne Meltzer, with additional voice-over work by Don Wilson, Linnea Quigley, Michael Berryman, Vince Murdocco, and Cynthia Rothrock.
Synopsis: John is just an average man working as a sound technician for a New York City news station, until one day his pregnant wife is brutally murdered while witnessing the kidnapping of a young woman in broad daylight. Turning to the police for help, John soon learns that the city is overrun with crime and the police are too busy to help. Dressing as a white ninja, John takes to the streets as a sword wielding vigilante hell bent on cleaning up the streets of the city he once loved by ridding it of muggers, pickpockets, rapists, and gang members. However, in John’s quest for justice, he soon finds himself the target of every criminal in the city, including a mysterious villain known only as the Plutonium Killer. Will John survive to become the hero that New York City so desperately needs?
Features:
• Scanned & restored in 4K from its 35mm original camera negative
• Digitally mastered 2.0 stereo mix with an optional analog mono mix
• Commentary track with re-writer/re-director/editor Kurtis M. Spieler
• ‘Re-Enter The New York Ninja’ – extended making-of documentary
• ‘Re-Directing New York Ninja’ – an interview with Kurtis M. Spieler
• ‘The Music of New York Ninja’ – interviews with the members of Voyag3r
• ‘Locations Unmasked’ – revisiting the filming locations with Michael Gingold
• Deleted scenes with commentary
• B-roll and outtake montage
• Original sizzle reel VHS
• Theatrical trailer
• Still gallery
• Case artwork by Tom Hodge of The Dude Designs
• Blu-ray sleeve artwork by R.P. “Kung Fu Bob” O’Brien
• English SDH subtitles
• Region Free 2-disc Blu-ray Set
‘New York Ninja’ is available to order now from Amazon.com.
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