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Enter the Ninja (1981)

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Movie"Hired assassins ...human killing machines!"
Audience Score
54
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R 1 hr 40 minOct 2nd, 1981Drama, Action, Thriller, CrimeThe Ninja Trilogy PosterPart of The Ninja Trilogy
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After completing his training of ninjutsu within Japan, an American Angolan Bush War veteran by the name of Cole visits his war buddy Frank Landers and his newly wed wife Mary Ann, who are the owners of a large piece of farming land in the Philippines. Cole soon finds that the Landers are being repeatedly harassed by a CEO named Charles Venarius.
StarringFranco NeroSusan GeorgeChristopher George
DirectorMenahem Golan

Movie Details

Theatrical Release:October 2nd, 1981
On DVD & Blu-ray:October 4th, 2011 - Buy DVD
Movie Budget:$1,500,000
Original Language:English
Production Companies:City Film, Golan-Globus Productions, The Cannon Group
Movie Tags:
martial artsphilippinesdeathfightmafiashootoutchaseninjagunfightfighting

The Ninja Trilogy

The so-called Ninja Trilogy comprises Menahem Golan’s Enter the Ninja from 1981, and Sam Firstenberg’s sequels in-name-only, Revenge of the Ninja (1983) and Ninja III: The Domination (1984), all unified by the appearance of actor and real-life practitioner of ninjutsu Sho Kosugi (playing a different character in each title), and all rightly celebrated as showcases for the most egregious, ’80s-inflected cash-in excesses of Golan and Globus’ Cannon Films. Though the groundwork was laid by 1980’s The Octagon, it was these three films that began a veritable explosion of ninja presence in mainstream action flicks.