Continuity mistake: When the Black Ninja has been unmasked, somehow both warriors get scared by the cop sirens. Christie escapes through a window; in the first shot the window is half-opened, in the second, all of a sudden all she has to do is push the fly screen, as the window frame has been removed. (01:10:35)
Sammo
20th May 2022
Ninja III: The Domination (1984)
20th May 2022
Ninja III: The Domination (1984)
Continuity mistake: When the Black Ninja drops a large wooden board on Yamada, Sho Kosugi's hands are positioned differently between shots, and when he breaks it, the two large pieces end up in different spots depending on the camera angle, even few seconds when the Black Ninja keeps going Donkey Kong on their opponent throwing more garbage at him. (01:09:35)
20th May 2022
Ninja III: The Domination (1984)
Visible crew/equipment: Inside the house under construction, the Black Ninja drops a bunch of dirt from the top of the stairs (an action she will repeat later). The rubbish hits the camera that shifts slightly towards the end of the shot. (01:08:50)
20th May 2022
Ninja III: The Domination (1984)
Continuity mistake: When Sho Kosugi breaks some boards that block the entrance to the house, the leftmost board is just chipped in close-up and fully broken in the following shot. (01:08:25)
20th May 2022
Ninja III: The Domination (1984)
Continuity mistake: In the opening phases of the fight between the two ninjas, the one possessing Christie tries to stab Yamada through a window. In close-up, Sho Kosugi has both hands on the brick sill, but in the next shot his left hand is still distant and closer to the doorframe. (01:08:20)
17th May 2022
Ninja III: The Domination (1984)

Continuity mistake: When Christie kicks a cop head-first into a gravestone shattering it (the gravestone, not the head, although one wonders how just the latter could happen), the stone breaks in two completely different ways in separate shots. (01:06:55)
17th May 2022
Ninja III: The Domination (1984)
Continuity mistake: When the ninja parries the baton strike from the guy making all the swooshing noise, her right side of the body (and her arm, specifically) are already prepared to hit the second guy while the left hand brings down the baton. The next shot though opens with her right arm low and her left arm high over her head. (01:06:45)
17th May 2022
Ninja III: The Domination (1984)
Continuity mistake: When the patrol car chases the ninja at the funeral shooting at her with a shotgun, there's a POV shot from the driver, who has his right hand at 12 o'clock on the wheel. Reverse angle and the hand is gone. It happens again moments later when the driver stops the car, and at the cut it switches from 10 to 2 o'clock with opposite hands. (01:05:50)
17th May 2022
Ninja III: The Domination (1984)
Revealing mistake: In the sequence with the ninja knocking two policemen off their bikes at the funeral, the one on the right goes down (not to dodge, but acting like he's being hit) a second before her foot actually hits. (01:05:40)
17th May 2022
Ninja III: The Domination (1984)
Revealing mistake: At the funeral, Ninja Christie shoots two arrows. She prepares to shoot a third, but meanwhile (in the shot where a widow is looking around worried and a man in a light suit pulls her away) another guy just dies for no reason hit by something invisible. (01:05:10)
17th May 2022
Ninja III: The Domination (1984)
Continuity mistake: At the funeral, Ninja Christie shoots one arrow, then a second. The officer dies holding one hand to his chest in the shot, both in the next. (01:05:05)
17th May 2022
Ninja III: The Domination (1984)
Continuity mistake: When Yamada stops the hearse, the shadow of the vehicle doubles in size between shots. (00:57:10)
17th May 2022
Ninja III: The Domination (1984)
Continuity mistake: When Yamada knocks out the group of three guards he failed to sneak past at the morgue, the guard to the left goes down dropping the nightstick at distance and at a certain angle. Yamada walks past them and the baton is closer and at a different angle. (00:55:55)
17th May 2022
Ninja III: The Domination (1984)
Revealing mistake: The first time we see the legendary Sho Kosugi properly in action, he knocks out a guard, then he throws a shuriken at another and fights him. He dodges his baton, kicks him, and then you can see clear as day the awkward moment when the stuntman just stops and waits for the follow-up push-kick towards the dumpster. (00:55:20)
17th May 2022
Ninja III: The Domination (1984)
Continuity mistake: When the priest tries to read from a scroll and gets laughed off by the ninja demon, he is holding the scroll in a different way between shots - just use the little string as reference. (00:51:10)
17th May 2022
Ninja III: The Domination (1984)
Continuity mistake: When Billy pays the wise man from the Orient, the wad of bills does a 180° between shots. (00:47:45)
17th May 2022
Ninja III: The Domination (1984)
Other mistake: This is just baffling; in the scene where Christie is wearing a rather sweat-stained pink top and Billy turns the music off asking her "Where have you been?" they are the only ones in the room, but someone out of frame throws what appears to be a puppet on Christie bed (!?). (00:45:45)
17th May 2022
Ninja III: The Domination (1984)
Audio problem: When Christie moves on to the second girl in the hot tub to strangle her, she screams "N-noooo!" but her lips and facial muscles don't move. (00:44:20)
17th May 2022
Ninja III: The Domination (1984)
Continuity mistake: Christie is making out with the sleazy cop. We get a close-up of the poisoned ring and how she turned it, and she is ready to strike. She has both arms over his shoulders, both for the close-up of the fatal gesture, the arm is out of the way. (00:44:00)
17th May 2022
Ninja III: The Domination (1984)
Continuity mistake: At the spa, Christie opens her robe. The darker haired lady-friend of the sleazy cop turns towards her noticing what she'd doing, but the following reaction shot begins with her still engaged in conversation; she notices the competition only a moment later. (00:43:10)
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