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Such a frustrating disappointment

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An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

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!

There are movies you can write off as just being lousy, rife with bad acting and b-level production values. "Revenge of the Ninja" is not one of them. It's got both, yeah, but they're cogs in a greater piece of machinery; one that takes all manner of incongruous ingredients and somehow whips them up into a heady stew of lurid fun. It's not just ninjas killing all sorts of people, there's also a sexy hot tub assassination, the sweet bod on Ashley Ferrare, shameless violence, and the thugs are all graduates of the Village People school of bad guys. And our hero drives an El Camino! I hold this in pretty high regard along with "Silent Night Deadly Night 2", two movies that, having done the math, shouldn't be nearly so entertaining. The plot doesn't make sense, but we're really here for the energetic fight scenes (wall-to-wall, baby). Bad guy takes a dagger to the face, and I'm just as likely to cheer as laugh. In no way did I expect a Cannon movie to be this awesome, but color me happily surprised.It is glorious! 8/10

Whrn one must preserve honor, knowing your past is better than living in it. For Cho (Sho Kosugi) , he is a ninja. Back in Japan, he and his friend Braden(Arthur Roberts) encounter massacre of Cho's family by ninjas. Cho and Braden take out the ninjas, then Cho and his surviving family head out the USA for a new life. In California, Cho opens up a doll shop with Braden. Little does Cho knows that the doll shop is actually a front for smuggling heroin for a Mafia boss (Mario Gallo). Little what Braden knows, that the boss want to change the deals. So in payback, he attacks and kills his informers and family members. For Braden, he too is a ninja. For Cho, he swore off being a ninja when he moved to California. He later breaks the oath when his son went missing, and his mother killed by Braden. He had some assistance from Dave Hatcher (Keith Vitali), who was later mortally wounded by Braden. Cho was on a vengeance streak like never seen. Seeing Hatcher as a true friend, he was avenged well. The fight choreographs are amazing, Sho Kosugi really put it very well. You also got to know who are your real friends from the fake one. This movie is fine, s must see gem. 3 out of 5 stars.

When his family is butchered in Japan by ninjas, Cho moves to America with his young son and mother to escape the conflict and start anew. He opens a Japanese doll shop and continues his training without ever having the need to use it. Unbeknownst to him though, his imported dolls are being used as a cover for heroin smuggling by his "friend" and business partner Braden – who is also secretly a deadly and powerful ninja. With Braden knocking off his mobster partners, the police turn to Cho to help them identify the martial arts secrets being used, drawing Cho back into a deadly battle he had sought to escape.Someone pointed me to this film as "a great ninja movie" and, despite that, I approached it with a certain amount of caution mainly because I think few things highly praised live up to the hype. So it was with Revenge of the Ninja but not to the point that it wasn't actually a pretty enjoyable film for what it was. The first thing to point out is the very thing you will not need pointed out – it is dated. Really dated. If you were a film designer looking to set a film in a cheesy version of the early 80's then you would do well to watch this film and take notes because it really is of its time. This is not its fault of course, it is only down to its age but it is unavoidably a problem with watching this film today. It is not just visually that the film is cheesy though, because the film is dated beyond just costume and style. The plot is a simple affair but I was pleasantly surprised by the action sequences they produced. Yes they are delivered to terrible TVM musical accompaniment but they are done reasonably well with quite a violent edge to them that belies the 80's presentation. They are not helped at all by director Firstenberg's TV direction but they are still quite enjoyable in a cheesy way.The cast match the cheese with their performances. Shô Kosugi has got moves but he is straight from the "intense stare" school of martial arts acting. Roberts helps make him look good with a performance that highlights when his stand-in was used. Behind the mask in the action scenes "he" is impressively fluid and natural, take those away and he is a big bit of beef and as wooden as you like. The rest of the cast follow this lead, all being pretty poor at acting and generally there because they (a) are Oriental, (b) are muscular goons or (c) are blonde, have 80's underwear and are willing to show their t*ts to camera.Revenge of the Ninja is terribly dated and cheesy but it is hard to deny that it does deliver some solid ninja action. More of a guilty pleasure than a pleasure mind you but genre fans who know what they are in for should find it worth seeing.