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Apr 3, 2020 - 12:55 PM
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stuartbake
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This was an odd little movie (we propose to order movie review, essay or research paper on our website - https://mcessay.com/write-my-essay/) in Sam Firstenberg's Ninja series (following Enter the Ninja and Revenge of the Ninja, both starring Sho Kosugi). Apparently he wasn't impressed by the returns on his straight action movies, and decided to go cross-genre with this one, throwing in portions of both The Exorcist and Flashdance. It may not make for good cinema, but it's definitely unique. We start out with a ninja assassin popping an executive on a golf course. (Why? Doesn't really matter, I suppose; he was hired to kill the guy, he killed the guy, end of that storyline.) The police chase him through the desert and pump enough lead into him to screw up anyone's x-ray vision. The ninja still manages to live long enough to disappear in a cloud of smoke, stumble to a beautiful electrical technician is working on a power line, psychically bond with her, and give her his sword. At the police station, she claims that he was dead when she found him. Annoying cop-boy leans on her to give him a date in a way that would get a reprimand put in his file today. But no, she can't date him -- she's got to get back and teach her aerobics class, dressed in a tight leotard and leg-warmers! Cop boy shows up for her class, she drops him with some high-burn calisthenics, and refuses a date again. She then goes outside and beats up some toughs who were pushing around one of her students. Cop-boy then arrests her?! For stopping a public harassment? And then says he hasn't really arrested her? Somebody's bucking for a dismissal here. Anyway, she turns on to all this violent-obsessive stuff, takes him back to her place, and shows him the erotic power of V-8. We get to see that cop-boy has gorilla-back like my aunt Lucille. But later that night, in her sleep, dry ice fog and disco lights shine out of her closet where the ninja sword is hidden. It's calling to her! I'm trying to make a comprehensible review from this movie, but it really wasn't a comprehensible movie. From here on out, she keeps getting possessed by the ninja, who then takes vengeance on all the cops that laid him out (which seems a little personal for a ninja, but hey, what do I know?). Cop-boy tries to get her exorcised by the resident Oriental guru (played by James Hong, the hardest working actor in Hollywood - see below), but to no avail. Fortunately, Sho Kosugi finally shows up on the scene as a good ninja who lost his family and his left eye to the bad ninja. (Apparently a good deal of this back story was cut from the film, leaving only a small scene of flashback -- but of the two photos on the back of the box, one manages to be from the excised footage!) He steals the bad ninja's body, brings the girl to the buddhist temple, forces the bad ninja's soul back into its body, and fights it in some characteristically good fight scenes. Now, I like Kosugi. I think he's the best on-screen ninja still alive (though he's pretty much retired from film). Unfortunately, he didn't figure in this movie too much, in terms of screen-time; we only got to see one good fight sequence. On the other hand, at least this film didn't co-star his real-life kids, as most of his films do. James Hong is, by the way, the hardest working actor in Hollywood. The IMDb has him for over a hundred movies in the last forty years, plus a gazillion guest shots on TV; his own website (at http://www.jameshong.com, naturally) claims that he's appeared in 450 movies or TV episodes, and I don't doubt it.
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Haven't seen this since, ugh well 1985 on home video (i was into Ninja movies). Was reminded a couple of years ago from the 'Cannon documentary'. Didn't the theme from 'Revenge Of The Ninja' resurface in this film. Oh, and i had the hots for Lucinda Dickey
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