Godfrey Ho

Godfrey Ho is one of my favorite directors.  This man directed eighty-seven movies from 1980 through 1989. Of those eighty-seven films, forty-seven of them have the word "ninja" in the title. That's a lot of ninja movies. A Hong Kong version of Ed Wood, Godfrey Ho's secret was getting tons of footage of movies from the sixties no one cared about, editing in a few minutes of footage he would shoot of western actors dressed as ninja, dubbing English dialogue over the whole thing (even over the new actors that are clearly speaking English anyway), and calling it a new movie. Similar to the Superman/Superman II controversy, he convinced his staple of US actors that they were filming two or three action films, then would take a few minutes of each of these "films" and edit them into dozens of separate movies culled from the dregs of Hong Kong schlock.