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1	* AmateurCast: Not a single actor involved in these movies had any prior acting experience aside from Richard Harrison. Pierre Kirby was a Yacht salesman whose appearance and martial arts skills were what Ho was looking for in a new star, while the actors he brought in for dubbing were usually random people who happened to speak English and Mandarin.
2	* CastTheExpert:
3	** Godfrey Ho has said that Pierre Kirby's strong physique and martial arts experience were the reasons he casted him into his movies.
4	** The hiring process for dub actors was strictly based on whether or not they could speak English and Mandarin.
5	* ColbertBump: The cult status these films obtained can largely be credited to Brad Jones reviewing some of them on WebVideo/TheCinemaSnob during the late 2000s.
6	* CreatorsOddball:
7	** Not only were ''Honor and Glory'' and ''Undefeatable'' among the few mainstream films Ho directed, they also omit his cut and paste methods by being comprised entirely of original footage shot by him.
8	** Rather than finish his career with another action or ninja movie, Ho chose to completely abandon these elements by having his final directing credit be the children's animated feature ''Animation/AliBabaAndTheGoldRaiders''.
9	* DirectToVideo: These films were specifically made for the home video markets in English territories to cash in on the then ninja craze.
10	* MissingEpisode: Because of the sheer volume of Ho's filmography and their easiness to find online, the original cuts to the movies he used are incredibly hard to come by. In some cases the actual name of the film itself is a complete mystery.
11	* NoBudget: Ho could produce three movies for the price of one by filming his ninja scenes back to back and padding them with stock footage from other movies he got for cheap. Often he'd take it a step further by bootlegging his stock materials to avoid payments and use store bought props and costumes for his original footage.[[note]]This explains why you'd here music from Music/ZZTop and Music/PinkFloyd in some of his movies, or why toy robots and a garfield phone are used in ''Golden Ninja Warrior''.[[/note]]
12	** This was also a factor in his casting decisions for each movie. While he would occasionally hire professional actors like Richard Harrison to star in his films, Ho would usually cut corners by casting anyone from off the street who happened to be bilingual in Mandarin and English.
13	* RealLifeRelative: Harry/Gordon's wife in ''Ninja Terminator'' and ''Diamond Ninja Force'' was played by Richard Harrison's real-life wife Maria Francesca.
14	* ReclusiveArtist:
15	** Ho's longtime producer Joseph Lai has been quiet in the industry since IFD Films' demise in 2001. He has no social media presence and the most anyone's heard from him was an [[https://www.forcesofgeek.com/2013/03/the-man-from-hong-kong-chats-wi.html interview]] he did with Forces of Geek in 2013.

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