Shark Week continues!

Elevator pitch

  • ‘Yojimbo’ meets ‘Jaws 3’

Premise

A fishing village is being extorted by an evil gang and hires a bodyguard as nasty as the gangsters. At the same time, any villager who enters the sea is likely to wash up a dismembered corpse.

Trailer

Trailer has spoilers, too many IMHO

I didn’t see the trailer before watching, and I’m glad I didn’t.

Full Movie

Details

Unless otherwise stated, all full movie links I post are for free, no account required, licensed (AFAIK, IANAL) streaming VOD in English (or original language with English subtitles) and work at time of writing in my location, Mexico. Availability and language options may be different in your location. Asterisk by the one I watched.

Legal stream finders

Details

The ‘nobraincellsleft’ link finds legit stream sources from many countries, listed by two-letter code.

The Just Watch link lists legit stream sources only for one country at a time. On the web page, change the country to your location, e.g. change Mexico to Australia.

Neither is perfect. Check your preferred streamers directly, just in case.

Info

  • IMDb 6.0/10 (Gives info on English-dub voice cast but little on the Japanese cast)
  • Plex (Doesn’t offer a stream but better on the Japanese cast)
  • Wikipedia in Japanese

Personnel

Cast

  • Hirano Kōshu
  • Nishime Shun
  • Nagano Juria

Opinion

The thing you have to understand about ‘Ninja vs Shark’ is that for the first hour it’s a low-budget but good, serious, dramatic samurai movie with betrayal, conflict, family drama, unrequited love, emotionally significant flashbacks, melodramatic villains, geysers of CGI blood, curses, giant sharks, magical ninjas, devil worship, zombies, sorcery, human sacrifice, decapitations, and homoerotic shape-shifting vampiric ninja weresharks… and only then does it get crazy. Absolutely unhinged!

I love this film! My fave of Shark Week so far.

Shark Week Score: its sharkiness is relatively low (until, of course, the very end, when everything is dialled up to eleven, given an overdose of steroids and PCP, and let loose on an unsuspecting audience.) 2 out of 5 sharks.

B Movie Bonanza Score: 5 out of 5 sharks!

Screenshots

Ninja vs Shark
Oh man, if you think things in this village are weird in the first five minutes, just you wait till the last five minutes!

Ninja vs Shark
Of course, the mayor’s first reaction to news of a villager disappearing is to objectify him.

Ninja vs Shark
Trust me, at this point, this movie ain’t even close to jumping the shark.

Ninja vs Shark
Overly dramatic villain states overly obvious point.

Ninja vs Shark
We’re gonna need a bigger sacrifice.

Ninja vs Shark
Always nice to have a ninja etiquette teacher.

I got a couple more completely batshit screenshots but I feel it’s way more fun to watch the movie to experience those scenes.

OK, just one (gory)


And she ain’t even dead yet!