It’s the holiday season and Nerd Lunch is celebrating the often overlooked holiday of “Day of the Ninja.” To celebrate, Pax takes over the hosting reigns and in tandem with our Fourth Chair guest, Jaimie from Shezcrafti.com, we discuss the 1984 ninja classic, Ninja III: The Domination starring Sho Kosugi and Lucinda Dickey. Expect discussions on the supernatural nature of 1980s ninjas, old shaolin temples on the outskirts of Los Angeles, the ridiculous Bigfoot body hair of the male lead and, of course, V8. We also spend more time than we should talking about Mr. Ochmonek from Alf (again). This week’s Nerd-to-Dos include even more mentions of Bond, Halo 4, Ninja Sex Party and 4Rivers Barbeque.
"Pretty much this whole movie is a favorite scene of mine…" Classic. 😉
So, yeah. Three years late to this, but I've just started listening to your show. I'm sure that someone has mentioned this by now, but just in case…
The reason the eypatch looks so interesting is because it is a tsuba, the handguard of a katana. (Which is why there is s slot in it.)
Tsuba as eyepatch was popularized in various incarnations of the historical figure Yagyu Jubei. Especially as portrayed by Sonny Chiba in Samurai Resurection.