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Toy Robot Video sublabel
Posted: Sat May 23, 2026 1:19 am
by Finch
Cliff MacMillan's new label releasing in the US and UK
official YouTube channel
As per dwk's post in the Arrow speculation thread, all titles announced are dual territory except for the 1987 Masters of the Universe, a US exclusive.
Opening lineup: Masters of the Universe, Ninja Wars, Roaring Fire, Guvyer 2 and Marshmellows
Re: Toy Robot Video sublabel
Posted: Sat May 23, 2026 8:49 am
by MichaelB
If Ninja Wars is the film I think it is, it has one of the all-time show-stopping set-pieces of its era, in which a ninja defeats an enemy by projectile-vomiting into his face, the vomit then instantly hardening into a lumpy yellow carapace. Which the ninja then raps with his knuckles and, laughing, says "You have seen the skill of a true ninja!"
Indeed we have.
Re: Toy Robot Video sublabel
Posted: Sat May 23, 2026 12:37 pm
by Mr Sausage
MichaelB wrote: Sat May 23, 2026 8:49 am
If
Ninja Wars is the film I think it is, it has one of the all-time show-stopping set-pieces of its era, in which a ninja defeats an enemy by projectile-vomiting into his face, the vomit then instantly hardening into a lumpy yellow carapace. Which the ninja then raps with his knuckles and, laughing, says "You have seen the skill of a true ninja!"
Indeed we have.
Imagine my surprise to see this isn't a Godfrey Ho cut-and-paste job starring Richard Harrison, but an actual Japanese action film starring Hiroyuki Sanada and Sonny Chiba!
It has shot to the top of my to watch list.
Re: Toy Robot Video sublabel
Posted: Sat May 23, 2026 12:44 pm
by MichaelB
I've just watched
the Japanese trailer on Toy Robot's YouTube channel, and am delighted to confirm that it's definitely the same film, albeit with picture quality a gazillion miles ahead of the VHS rental copy I watched more than forty years ago.
The start of the projectile vomit scene is about a minute in.
Re: Toy Robot Video sublabel
Posted: Sat May 23, 2026 2:07 pm
by Finch
I'm even more excited about Roaring Fire.
Re: Toy Robot Video sublabel
Posted: Sat May 23, 2026 2:19 pm
by Mr Sausage
MichaelB wrote: Sat May 23, 2026 12:44 pm
I've just watched
the Japanese trailer on Toy Robot's YouTube channel, and am delighted to confirm that it's definitely the same film, albeit with picture quality a gazillion miles ahead of the VHS rental copy I watched more than forty years ago.
The start of the projectile vomit scene is about a minute in.
And the whole movie is up on Tubi if anyone wants to try it out before purchase.
Re: Toy Robot Video sublabel
Posted: Sat May 23, 2026 3:37 pm
by dwk
They also are releasing Junya Sato's Manhunt (1976)
Re: Toy Robot Video sublabel
Posted: Sun May 24, 2026 12:24 am
by Finch
Thanks for alerting us to Ninja Wars on Tubi, Mr Sausage. I thought this was an okay time waster and sleazier than expected, a bit too much for my liking. Misumi stages the bloodletting a lot better and more elegantly in his Lone Wolf and Cub entries than Saito does here.
Re: Toy Robot Video sublabel
Posted: Sun May 24, 2026 8:07 am
by tenia
Have to say that being in France, where there is a recent label called Roboto Films, and who has released recently Roaring Fire, seeing another label released it, being called Toy Robot, and having a typo on the Roaring Fire announcement saying it stars Sonny "China"...
I wondered originally if this was serious.
Re: Toy Robot Video sublabel
Posted: Mon May 25, 2026 3:43 pm
by Orlac
Masters of the Universe is one of my major nostalgia comfort blankets. Mind you, I first saw it when I was 5 and couldn't get past the first reveal of Skeletor - took me 4 years to see the rest of the movie!