Not that long ago the video store was a mundane and sometimes obnoxious part of life; driving over to some lonesome strip mall with your friends or family to comb through the all-too-often disorganized shelves of your local shop, argue over a selection, and then be stuck with it, for good or ill. Yet, it was also sublime. And for those who lived during the true video boom, video stores also equate to another bygone commodity: VHS. The genre and B-movies that had previously filled drive-ins across the country now often went straight to VHS. It was a brave new world, and sadly, many films never made the leap, trapped now on a dead format.
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A modern days ninja commits a murder of a well-guarded person and massacres a dozen of pursuing police officers but at last he is killed. But his restless spirit possesses a young woman Christie Lucinda Dickey and turns her into a tool of vengeance. Only another ninja, Yamada Sho Kosugi , is capable to defeat the spirit and liberate Christie. In the opening scene one of the bodyguards is armed with a Colt Detective Special revolver. In several scenes police officers carry Winchester Model shotguns.