Revenge of the Ninja

1983

Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller

22
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 58% · 4 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 58% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.0/10 10 6472 6.5K

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Plot summary

A peaceful ex-ninja's life shatters when his son's kidnapping forces him back into violence amid an American-Japanese criminal drug war.

Director

Sam Firstenberg Photo
Sam Firstenberg

Top cast

Arthur Roberts Photo
Arthur Roberts as Braden
Ashley Ferrare Photo
Ashley Ferrare as Cathy
Shô Kosugi Photo
Shô Kosugi as Cho Osaki
Oscar Rowland Photo
Oscar Rowland as One-Eyed Informant
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780.54 MB
1280*694
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 30 min
Seeds 5
1.39 GB
1920*1040
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 30 min
Seeds 8

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by tocotoco2001 6 / 10

Bad Acting + Hilarious Dialogue + Good Fight Scenes = Revenge of the Ninja

Martial Arts movies have always sacrificed acting and dialogue in favor of keeping the action constant and entertaining. Revenge of the Ninja is no exception. The fight scenes are amusing and the dialogue is absolutely hilarious, and yet this movie has enough charm to be a cult classic. Sho Kusagi plays Cho, a doll collector(!) living in Japan. For centuries he and his family have followed the way of the ninja. However, one day a group of ninjas massacres his family. Only his grandmother and infant son survive. Following the advise of his friend, he moves to America to sell his doll collection. Little does he know that he is a pawn in a Japanese drug-smuggling ring...The plot aside, Revenge of the Ninja acts out like a parody of ninja clichés. You got the evil ninja that manages to change into his ninja suit in the blink of an eye, a grandmother that can do backflips, and over-the-top villains that look like they just came back from a Halloween party. The film's final fight scene occurs on a Los Angeles rooftop, where the evil ninja pulls out decoys, sticks, and shrunikens; none of which he had at the start of the scene.There are a lot of bad martial-arts out there. Some are pure trash. Others, like this one, are good for a few laughs.
Reviewed by fmarkland32 7 / 10

Avenging forces...

Sho Kosugi stars as a ninja who had his whole family wiped out by a rival clan (We even witness his son take an arrow to the back) and when his entire family is killed, except for his mother and youngest son he decides to hang his jammies up and live out his life as a businessman however when his partner runs drugs and Kosugi's son witnesses it, Kosugi must protect his son and take on his equally proficient pal in the art of ninjitsu. Revenge Of The Ninja is quite possibly the best ninja movie ever made. (Ironically the best and worst ninja movies have Sho Kosugi. Worst one being 9 Deaths of The Ninja) In it we witness everything that makes a ninja movie so appealing, lots of cheesy zen philosophy, tons of fight sequences, lots of carnage and just tons of cheese in general. Revenge Of The Ninja also remains probably the best movie to date from Sho Kosugi and indeed it is just unfortunate he had his son also partake in what could have been even better without the kid. Still Revenge Of The Ninja is a very enjoyable movie and that is not even including the granny ninja.* * * out of 4-(Good)
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