Revenge of the Ninja (1983)
★★★ — Revenge of the Ninja (1983)
Revenge of the Ninja was the second entry in Cannon Films' loose ninja trilogy, following Enter the Ninja (1981) and preceding Ninja III: The Domination (1984), with Israeli producers Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus riding what had become a genuine early-1980s craze for ninja-themed action pictures in the American market. Director Sam Firstenberg was a Cannon regular who would go on to helm Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo the following year, and the studio handed him a modest $700,000 budget that ended up generating over $13 million at the box office, a return that tells you everything about how hungry audiences were for this particular flavour of schlock. Japanese-born martial artist Sho Kosugi, a black belt in karate and one of the few performers in the genre with genuine credentials, became something of a Cannon fixture on the back of this film's success.
Fucking hilarious. I went into this KNOWING it was going to be bad acting, terribly scripted, and ridiculously over the top. I was not disappointed. You absolutely have to go into this knowing you're not watching a classically "good" movie but if you're looking for unintentionally hilarious, super stereotypical and all the tropes you can throw a ninja star at... you'll enjoy it
Rating: ★★★ | Year: 1983 | Watched: 2025-05-18
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