Godfrey Ho

Nobody has had a career quite like he did.

I mean, he was a one-of-a-kind, and yeah, he was the poster boy for the Godfrey Ho cut-and-paste ninja era, and he's the man on the Garfield phone talking about the ninja clan.

I don't know if you've ever seen any of those clips, Ryan Campbell, but he has a Garfield phone.

Like the cat? Yes, sir.

Oh, interesting.

Ninja Terminator.

We'll have to do some Godfrey Ho for Ryan Campbell's sake.

Yeah, we should do a Godfrey Ho one.

Oh my God, they're fucking awesome.

If you can find one of those, uh, Godfrey Ho was the director, and the ninjas have like, uh, these different colored suits, and on their ninja mask it says ninja.

Mm.

Just in case you didn't know who the fuck this guy was in a fluorescent green ninja outfit.

I had that same observation where I was thinking I had the thought that it was...

Like, tonally and, like, just vibes-wise, it was making me think of those, like, the Godfrey Ho, like, golden media live-action movies.

But... like same general vibe and yet a lot more entertaining than those were like the issue with those is those are more like kind of what you were describing is like where they have kind of some, some moments, some key moments that are good, but then like, you know, 90% of them are just boring dog shit.

Um, yeah.

But Japan has you fight a monk named Retsu, who is bald and has big ol' eyebrows.

And after him, you face Geki, a just straight-up ninja, like right out of a Godfrey Ho flick, who can teleport and toss shuriken until Sagat, at the very end, he's the only other character who has a projectile, if I'm not mistaken.

the usa has the turbo jobber known as joe he is a blonde guy another blonde guy who wears red like ken but he can't even shoot fireballs so he sucks and you're in your right district to clown on joe if you so desire after joe is is he

in the opening of street fighter 2

So call or text.

But for now, it's time to talk about a Godfrey Ho movie right here on VHS.

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it was great.

It was a good use of time.

Yeah, my introduction to this was through Godfrey Ho.

I had seen some of his movies, uh, that he made or allegedly made under different names, and I just started watching everything that I could.

so treating movies like the funny farm, like, you know, like they are Hellraiser, you know, it's like, you don't need, I don't need to be going this far down this road, but, um,

well, speaking of Hellraiser, how about we talk about Godfrey Ho? Heck yeah, dude.

All right, get into our announcements.

December 8th, we are getting a Blu-ray from Neon Eagle Video of Diamond Ninja Force and Demon's Apartment from 1988 and 1985, respectively.

Their write-up on this says, Diamond Ninja Force is maybe the wildest of all the films directed by Godfrey Ho for IFD, taking footage from three different shoots with Richard Harrison and combining it with a sleazy Taiwanese horror film called Demon's Apartment, also included in this release.

Don't you love that release of Ninja Terminator?

So good, dude.

Tony Raines speaks on Vengeance.

um it's just that's a there's a greater chance of that happening than any of the things he's describing

i think it's very funny that he also like there's a touch of weird bureaucracy in there like the to lend it some legitimacy so like somebody came back and showed him four seven and then they showed him american ninja and then they they showed him like a godfrey ho movie and then just one one tv in the background was playing the wire yeah he's like yeah oh Got a little like 10% of the wire in there.

Yeah.

Yeah.