Ninja: Silent Assassin

1987

Action

3
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 29%
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 29% · 100 ratings
IMDb Rating 4.0/10 10 312 312

Plot summary

When police officer Alvin loses both his star witness and his wife to drug kingpin (and ninja assassin) Rudolph, he vows to get revenge. Travelling to Hong Kong, hot on Rudolph's trail, he teams up with local investigators Gordon, Vivian and Jackie. Meanwhile, a young street punk named Edmund is hunting for the man who killed his father. Could they all possibly be searching for the same person? A Hong Kong cut and paste edit of the 1984 Taiwanese Film 女太保 (A Rouge Girl) with new ninja scenes.

Director

Godfrey Ho Photo
Godfrey Ho

Top cast

Richard Harrison Photo
Richard Harrison as Ninja Master Gordon
Paulo Tocha Photo
Paulo Tocha as Paul - Norman's Henchman
Geoffrey Brown Photo
Geoffrey Brown
Pierre Tremblay Photo
Pierre Tremblay as Alvin's Boss
720p.WEB
797.77 MB
984*720
English 2.0
NR
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29.97 fps
1 hr 26 min
Seeds 24

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by 4 / 10

Corny and campy late 1980s ninja action...

Yeah, as a kid during the 1980s, I did of course enjoy the ninja movies back in the day. Sure, a lot of them were beyond questionable, especially when you sit down to watch them today. But back then the ninjas were the coolest thing ever. And thus, as I had the opportunity here in 2026 to sit down and watch the 1987 movie "Ninja: Silent Assassin", I opted to do so without hesitation.Truth be told, though, I didn't exactly harbor the biggest of expectations to the movie. But it was getting a fair chance and the benefit of the doubt. And the 4.0 rating here on IMDb, as of the very moment I watched the movie, certainly didn't really do much to bolster any grand expectations to the movie.Writers Godfrey Ho and Stephen So put together a pretty straight forward script and storyline, though it was somewhat corny and random at times.Needless to say that I wasn't familiar with a single actor or actress on the cast list. Not that it was a bad thing, because I do enjoy watching unfamiliar and new talents on the screen. The acting performances were a bit forced and wooden, especially the dialogue.There are some nice enough fight scenes throughout the course of the movie, accompanied by some glorious over-the-top sound effects.My rating of director Godfrey Ho's 1987 movie "Ninja: Silent Assassin" lands on a very generous four out of ten stars.
Reviewed by macintoshulator 1 / 10

If you haven't seen yet Ninja: Silent Assassin ; you haven't seen yet the worst movie of the entire world.

This movie is THE WORST MOVIE I've ever seen. And the worst in EVERY field : -worst actor -worst history -worst words (for me in french ..... but I think the original version is not so better that french version) -worst choreographConclusion : It's my favourite movie. Recommandation : You must see it.
Reviewed by HaemovoreRex 9 / 10

Only marginally less fun than carnal gratification!

I must make a guilty confession to being somewhat of a fan of the 'Cut & Paste' Ninja films from the 1980's as were churned out seemingly by the bucket load by such cinematic luminaries (snigger) as Godfrey Ho and Joseph Lai. A guilty pleasure veritably, as it would be entirely equitable to describe the films themselves as absolute crap in virtually every possible way i.e. atrocious dubbing (even the American actors had to be re dubbed back into English as the movies were recorded without sound!) completely ridiculous and incoherent plots (as one might expect considering that footage of Caucasian actors were spliced into completely non related Asian movies!) and often woefully inappropriate sound tracks which were stolen from composers as diverse as Jean Michel Jarre and Gustav Holst! But bizarrely, in spite of all this, I just can't help but to derive an almost perverse pleasure from these films. I can only conclude therefore that the sheer overt ineptitude present within these films is precisely and exactly what endears them to me so much. It is a classic example of the 'So bad it's good' phenomena.Ninja Operation: Knight And Warrior aka Ninja: Silent Assassins is a classic example of the above and is frankly (unintentionally) utterly hilarious......Watch in amazement as the film makers attempt to edit two actors from two completely and blatantly different movies together so as to make it appear that they are in fact talking face to face in one room!Gasp at some of the most profound (and out of sync) dialogue ever spoken in a movie!Marvel as seemingly normal men disappear at will (via decidedly shoddy camera trickery) and reappear moments later as deadly ninja clad in outfits so brightly coloured as to surely make even the Power Rangers jealous!And finally, soil thy under garments in astonishment when you realise that the sound track is in fact Jan Hammers theme to Miami Vice!In short, I recommend this movie wholeheartedly! Z-Grade fun at it's very finest!
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