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    10 THINGS YOU DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT SHO KOSUGI AND THE NINJA

    May 17, 2022 4 minutes
    BY JASON WILLIAM MCNEIL
    On the Black Belt Magazine Channel on JungoTV.com, you can watch two cult classics: Enter the Ninja and Revenge of the Ninja. Although he usually doesn’t receive top billing, the real star of both films is Sho Kosugi. To deepen your understanding of this martial artist and the shadow warriors he’s played, we present the following.
    —Editor

    The year was 2006, and it was my first visit to Hollywood. Whom did I choose to meet first on that day? The foremost name in ninja movies: Sho Kosugi.

    There I was, standing in Kosugi’s office in the heart of Tinseltown, having just wrapped an hourlong interview on the master movie ninja’s life, career and plans for the future, and the camera crew was making its way around the

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