The Ninja Dragon

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name = The Ninja Dragon


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director = Go Nagai
producer = Taro Maki
writer = Go Nagai Daisuke Serizawa
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starring = Kenji Otsuki Tetsuya Matsui Cutie Suzuki Etsuko Shinkoda Mayumi Ozaki Ikko Furuya Rikiya Yasuoka Katsumi Muramatsu Kobuhei Hayashiya Yoshiaki Umegaki
music = Takashi Mitsuda
cinematography = Eiichi Osawa
editing = Yoshifumi Fukazawa
distributor = Tohokushinsha Film Corporation
released = 1990-10-25
runtime = 70 minutes
country = flag|Japan
language = Japanese
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imdb_id = 0366824

nihongo|"Kuso Kagaku Ninkyoden: Gokudo Ninja Dosuryu"|空想科学任侠伝 極道忍者ドス竜|kuusou kagaku ninkyou den gokudou ninja dosu ryuu, better known for its international title as "The Ninja Dragon" (not to be confused with the 1986 Hong Kong film "Ninja Dragon" directed by Godfrey Ho), is a Japanese direct-to-video action film released in 1990 by the Tohokushinsha Film Corporation. The film was produced by Dynamic Planning, Moby Dick and the Tohokushinsha Film Corporation.

It was directed by mangaka Go Nagai, his third film as director and his first as a solo director. It was the first film starring Japanese rock musician Kenji Otsuki. It also features famous female Japanese wrestlers Cutie Suzuki and Mayumi Ozaki, and also Japanese idol Etsuko Shinkoda. The film has cameos of Ken Ishikawa, Chiaki Kawamata, Shintaro Ko, Yoichi Komatsuzawa, Tokitoshi Shiota, Haruka Takachiho, Kunio Nagatani, Kaizo Hayashi, Fujiko F. Fujio, Mari Yagisawa and Tetsu Yano.

A manga was also created by Go Nagai and Shinoyama Isami, and released as a single tankobon in 1990-11-07 by Kadokawa Shoten. A 219 pages light novel was also released in 1990, written by Kazuo Sakurai and published by Enix, with the ISBN-10: 4900527467 and ISBN-13: 978-4900527461.

External links

* [http://www.allcinema.net/prog/show_c.php?num_c=86692 "Kuso Kagaku Ninkyoden: Gokudo Ninja Dosuryu"] ja icon at allcinema
* [http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1990/ov022000.htm "Kuso Kagaku Ninkyoden: Gokudo Ninja Dosuryu"] ja icon at the Japanese Movie Database
*imdb title|0366824
* [http://www.mazingerz.com/YAMATO/DOSU.html "Kuso Kagaku Ninkyoden: Gokudo Ninja Dosuryu" (manga and light novel)] ja icon at "The World of Go Nagai" webpage
* [http://www.mobydick.co.jp/visual/DOSRIU/dosriu.html "Kuso Kagaku Ninkyoden: Gokudo Ninja Dosuryu" profile] ja icon at Moby Dick website