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Enter the Ninja

Name: Enter the Ninja
Genre: Action/Adventure,Drama,Suspense/Thriller
Released: 1981
Duration: 101 min
Cast: Shô Kosugi, Susan George, Alex Courtney, Franco Nero, Christopher George

1981 Action/Adventure | Drama | Suspense/Thriller

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After completing his training of ninjutsu within Japan, an American Vietnam veteran by the name of Cole (Franco Nero) visits his war buddy Frank Landers (Alex Courtney) and his newly wed wife Mary Ann Landers (Susan George), who are the owners of a large piece of farming land in the Philippines. Cole soon finds that the Landers are being repeatedly harassed by a CEO named Charles Venarius.

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Director

Menahem Golan

Actors

Shô Kosugi

Susan George

Alex Courtney

Franco Nero

Christopher George

Part of: The Ninja Trilogy

The so-called Ninja Trilogy comprises Menahem Golan’s Enter the Ninja from 1981, and Sam Firstenberg’s sequels in-name-only, Revenge of the Ninja (1983) and Ninja III: The Domination (1984), all unified by the appearance of actor and real-life practitioner of ninjutsu Sho Kosugi (playing a different character in each title), and all rightly celebrated as showcases for the most egregious, ’80s-inflected cash-in excesses of Golan and Globus’ Cannon Films. Though the groundwork was laid by 1980’s The Octagon, it was these three films that began a veritable explosion of ninja presence in mainstream action flicks.