New Jersey Stage 2016 - Issue 10 | Page 52

Lost Copy of Ninja Busters Found In Mojave Desert by Gary Wien SHARE BUTTON According to its director, the martial arts comedy movie Ninja Busters was shot on 35mm film and released by an independent film distributor in 1984. Unfortunately, the distributor stole all of the money from the six films he had released (including Ninja Busters), and the man went to prison for six years. ConseNJ STAGE 2016 - ISSUE 10 quently, the only print of Ninja Busters disappeared along with the distribution company. Fast forward to 2012, when Harry Guerro, a film collector with Exhumed Films and Garage House Pictures in New Jersey, found the print in what is described as a “hell-hole of a storage room” in the Mojave INDEX NEXT ARTICLE 52