brilliant actors, brilliant editing

n my opinion it was a great movie with some interesting elements, even though having some plot holes and the ending probably was just too messy and crammed together, but still fun to watch and not your casual movie that is similar to all other ones.

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

There were many silly action/kung fu movies made in the 80's. Sho Kosugi, Ninja Master, was in many of them. I saw this in the theaters and it was fun then and it's fun now. Sho is a Ninja who has moved to America and runs into trouble that only his Ninja skills can get him out of!

Better than the original one, Enter The Ninja. It's the same story and was also made by the Cannon group but this was campy. If you just thought it couldn't get any worser well, here you have it. Ever seen a granny ninja? Or gratuitous violence toward a ninja kid? The use of cheap effects are in full glory to watch, throwing stars flying into faces, nails in heads, nudity for no reason at all, but we liked it! Or have a look when a girl appears in a red robe forgotten to put a trouser on, but she's fighting nevertheless. It's so typical eighties, look at the clothes, look at village people at a playground...It's more bloodier than Enter The Ninja but it is really campy at sometimes. Only for the freaks of eighties smut.

This was the first Kosugi film I saw of his series and I have to say it spoiled me rotten.I wasn't too Impressed with the other films that he starred in, although I fully recognise his place in bringing about the ninja film boom in the 80's but most of his films seemed to be low budget nonsense with not much 'ninja' involved.None of this applies in this film. Cannon obviously gave the film enough money to look (for the time) reasonably glossy and director Sam Firstenberg, while no James Cameron, does a great job with the so-so but not entirely awful story.The movie has fleshed out fight scenes that occur pretty regularly within the film, keeping the obligatory acting parts to just enough and no more. The fights are respectably choreographed by Kosugi himeslf and while they don't have the speed and flair of Hong Kong action films they stand up as strong, well thought out pieces of work that are enjoyable to watch.The film greatly benefits from a really great bad guy. Arthur Roberts is good as the snake like psudo friend Braden but is even better as the evil, and quite scary Braden-Ninja who disposes of his enemies in a number of imaginative, gruesome and highly enjoyable ways.There are inclusions of some traditional ninja weapons and tools in the film which is nice to see, although while a flame thrower is hardly traditional I'm sure if ancient ninja were alive today they would make use of modern technology to get the job done.Probably the most striking aspect of the film is that, for a movie made in 1983, it is particularly gory and violent for that time with full views of shurikens embedded in heads and eyes and arms being sliced off. It might not seem so harsh these days what with Stallone doing a great job of updating the 80's action hero with Rambo and The Expendables, but at that time it seems a lot of work went into the film and the effort seems to have paid off so well done.A great film for ninja fans, or even just something to watch with a few mates for the grisly deaths.Definitely stands head and shoulders above the rest of the 80's ninja sludge.

This classic Ninja about practitioners of an ancient Oriental art of killing named Ninjitsu , wearing in black , using martial arts and diverse weapons , as Katana , deadly star (Ninkaisen), explosive balls...The exciting movie deals about Cho (Shô Kosugi , he personally crafted many of the weapons in the film) , when his family is murdered , he goes to America along with his son (Kane Kosugi) . There he puts a dolls-store , but his friend (Arthur Roberts) deceits him by means of drugs smuggling into the dolls . Then , a Ninja dedicates to human chase disguised in silvered mask . The Japanese Ninja , helped by a cop (Frye) , confronts enemies , mob , hoodlums (Professor Tanaka) and metes out his own justice when his son is abducted . The Ninjitsu fighter is possessed by the spirit of vengeance-seeking Ninja and only Sho Kosugi wipes out a passel of heinous villains and brings his bloody rampage to a moving final .This a violent and gripping story with plenty of noisy action and struggles in a comic-book style . It's a mindless but enjoyable for martial arts aficionados of the old style because the new technical are made by means of wires , cables and computer generator . The violence was dramatically cut for its original theatrical release which still garnered '18' certificates around the world . The unrated version of the film features an infamous blood splatter , one of the major reasons this version of the film is more popular . Shô Kosugi was adamant that Keith Vitali's character be killed to heighten the drama , director Sam Firstenberg agreed but nixed the idea that the character's hand be cut off during his dying scene . The film highlights are the fighting between the little boy named Kane against a group of children and a gorgeous woman ; the combat between the grandmother and a killer and Sho Kosugi fighting and wielding a fan , among them . The fights , thrills and lots of action and even some moments of unintentional humor make this movie worth seeing . The previous movie was ¨Enter the Ninja¨ (81) by Menahem Golan with Franco Nero , Menahem Golan was director of the first film , and was to direct this one also , but shortly before production was to start he decided to turn over directing chores to Sam Firstenberg . Golan did remain as producer , however and he came up with the films' opening prologue that adds more depth to the story . It was followed by ¨Ninja III , the domination¨ with Lucinda Dickey and again Sho Kosugi . The picture was well produced by Cannon -Golan and Globus- and rightly directed by Sam Firstenberg , being first "Ninja" film directed by Sam Firstenberg for Golan-Globus' . Sam's a low-grade expert on karate genre and Ninja sub-genre , such as he proved in ¨American Ninja¨ and sequels , and ¨Forced vengeance (82)¨ and ¨Avening force (1986)¨ with his usual actor Michael Dudikoff . Martial-art and Ninja films aficionados should enjoy it , because this Ninja entry is good of its type .