Revenge of the Ninja
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| Revenge of the Ninja | |
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 Revenge of the Ninja movie poster |
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| Directed by | Sam Firstenberg |
| Produced by | Yoram Globus Menahem Golan David Womark |
| Written by | James Silke |
| Starring | Shô Kosugi Keith Vitali Kane Kosugi Virgil Frye Arthur Roberts Mario Gallo |
| Music by | W. Michael Lewis Laurin Rinder Robert J. Walsh |
| Cinematography | David Gurfinkel |
| Editing by | Michael J, Duthie Mark Helfrich Daniel Wetherbee |
| Distributed by | Cannon Films MGM / United Artists |
| Release date(s) | September 7, 1983 |
| Running time | 90 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
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Revenge of the Ninja (1983) is an action movie starring Shô Kosugi as a ninja. It is considered part of a ninja trilogy, starting with Enter the Ninja (1981) and ending with Ninja III: The Domination (1984), but the stories are not directly related.
[edit] Plot summary
Revenge of the Ninja opens with an attack on the home of Cho (the Shô Kosugi character) in Japan, resulting in the slaughter of his entire family except for his mother and his younger son, Kane (played by Kosugi's actual son, Kane Kosugi). When Cho arrives at his estate and discovers the carnage, the ninjas attempt to kill him as well, but Cho proves too much for them. Afterwards, however, he swears off being a ninja forever and moves to the United States with his son where he opens a doll shop with the help of his American friend, Braden.
But when he discovers that Braden has betrayed him and is using his dolls as a means to ship heroin into the country - and turns out to be a ninja himself -, killing his mother and abducting his son in the process, Cho must don his ninja attire once more to fight the bad guys and rescue his son. The film ends with a climactic battle between Ninja Braden and Cho, on top of a skyscraper. After a long struggle Cho kills Braden and is reunited with his son.
[edit] Trivia
- Though the film is set in California, every car has a Utah license plate.
- Professor Toru Tanaka, who plays Braden's first sumo servant, never had any doctorate; this was his professional name as a wrestler.
